GVW Group, LLC Careers - Chief Marketing Officer

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Activeverified Jun 12, 2026

Job description

About Us Career Areas Featured Jobs Search All Open Jobs Submit Your Resume { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "JobPosting", "datePosted": "2026-05-20", "description": "

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Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

Category-Defining Brand Builder | Industrial Growth Leader | AI\u2011Enabled Marketing

Location: Cape Town South Africa\u00A0

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The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is responsible for building a category-defining industrial brand and a scalable commercial growth engine that drives market penetration, customer engagement, pipeline development, and revenue growth.

This is not a traditional corporate marketing role. The company is seeking a builder, not a caretaker - a leader with a proven track record of creating, scaling, and leading brands that define and dominate their categories, not simply managing established brand systems.

The CMO will lead market development across targeted vocational industries through direct engagement with fleets, operators, owners, procurement teams, and broader buying groups, ensuring the brand is grounded in real customer environments and decision dynamics.

This role requires deep expertise across:

  • Brand creation and category leadership
  • Industrial and vocational market positioning
  • Direct-to-customer and field-driven marketing
  • Demand generation and revenue growth
  • Community, influencer, and ecosystem-led engagement
  • Digital and social brand development
  • AI-enabled marketing strategy and operations

The objective is to build a brand that customers trust, operators identify with, and the industry recognizes as a clear market leader.

\u00A0

Core Responsibilities

1. Brand Building & Category Leadership

  • Build and scale a differentiated, category-leading industrial brand
  • Establish the company as a recognized market leader within targeted vocational industries
  • Develop positioning that combines emotional relevance with commercial clarity
  • Create clear, compelling narratives that resonate with fleets, operators, and industrial buying groups
  • Drive long-term brand equity, loyalty, and industry influence
  • Ensure consistent brand expression across all customer and employee touchpoints

\u00A0

2. Marketing & Growth Strategy

  • Own the company\u2019s end-to-end marketing and growth strategy
  • Define go-to-market strategies by industry, segment, and application
  • Align marketing strategy tightly with commercial growth priorities and revenue objectives
  • Translate market insight into scalable, measurable growth programs
  • Ensure integration across brand, demand generation, customer lifecycle, and channel strategy

\u00A0

3. Demand Generation & Commercial Impact

  • Accountable for marketing\u2019s measurable contribution to qualified pipeline, revenue growth, and demand funnel efficiency
  • Lead the development of measurable demand generation systems, including:
    • Account-Based Marketing (ABM)
    • Lifecycle marketing
    • Digital acquisition and optimization
    • Field and event-driven demand
    • Customer advocacy and referral programs
  • Improve lead quality, conversion rates, CAC efficiency, and lifetime value
  • Partner closely with Sales, Service, Product, and Commercial leadership to ensure full funnel alignment

\u00A0

4. Vocational Market Engagement & Customer Proximity

  • Leads market development through direct engagement with core vocational stakeholders, including fleet owners, operators, maintenance leaders, and procurement teams
  • Ensure the brand is visible, credible, and active within real operating environments
  • Strengthening customer loyalty, advocacy, and long-term account penetration
  • Develop deep connections within vocational and industrial ecosystems

\u00A0

5. Grassroots, Influencer & Community-Led Growth

  • Develop high-impact grassroots and field-driven marketing programs
  • Leverage influencers, operators, and customer advocates to amplify brand credibility
  • Define channel strategy and ensure execution across channel platforms such as LinkedIn, YouTube, trade media, and relevant industry platforms
  • Build authentic, operator-focused storytelling that resonates beyond traditional marketing channels
  • Create marketing that earns attention, trust, and engagement, not just impressions

\u00A0

6. AI-Enabled Marketing Operating Model

  • Lead the adoption of AI across marketing strategy, execution, and decision-making
  • Embed AI into:
    • Content development and scaling
    • Campaign optimization and targeting
    • Customer insight generation
    • Marketing automation and workflow efficiency
  • Demonstrate measurable gains in speed, scalability, and productivity through AI in marketing operations environment
  • Establish governance ensuring AI enhances, not replaces, human judgment and brand integrity

\u00A0

7. Team Leadership & Capability Development

  • Executes through a structured high-performance, modern marketing organization with defined ownership across Brand, Demand Generation, Digital, and Analytics
  • Build and lead a high-performance, modern marketing organization
  • Establish strong leadership across:
    • Brand strategy
    • Demand generation
    • Digital and analytics
    • Content and field marketing
  • Define clear roles, ownership, KPIs, and accountability mechanisms
  • Build a culture focused on execution discipline, creativity, speed, and measurable outcomes

\u00A0

Experience & Qualifications

Required

  • 15+ years of progressive marketing leadership experience
  • Proven success building and scaling category-defining brands
  • Demonstrated ability to drive both brand creation and measurable commercial growth
  • Experience in industrial, automotive, vocational, OEM, or similarly complex B2B sectors
  • Track record of driving pipeline and revenue impact, not just awareness
  • Experience marketing to multi-stakeholder, long-cycle buying environments
  • Strong commercial, operational, and strategic mindset
  • Proven experience implementing AI within marketing strategy and operations

\u00A0

Preferred

  • Commercial vehicle, truck, or industrial equipment experience
  • Experience building brands with strong operator and customer loyalty
  • Background in grassroots, field-driven, or community-led marketing
  • Experience leveraging influencer or creator ecosystems in industrial markets
  • Experience modernizing marketing organizations and systems

\u00A0

What Success Looks Like

  • The company is recognized as a market leader within its vocational categories
  • Brand awareness, credibility, and influence increase materially
  • Strong and sustained growth in direct customer engagement
  • A predictable, scalable demand generation engine is in place
  • Marketing is fully aligned with Sales, Service, and Commercial leadership
  • AI materially improves marketing efficiency, cycle time, and output quality
  • Marketing is viewed as a core commercial growth driver, not a support function
  • The brand achieves high levels of loyalty, advocacy, and long-term relevance
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The company is seeking a builder, not a caretaker - a leader with a proven track record of creating, scaling, and leading brands that define and dominate their categories, not simply managing established brand systems.The CMO will lead market development across targeted vocational industries through direct engagement with fleets, operators, owners, procurement teams, and broader buying groups, ensuring the brand is grounded in real customer environments and decision dynamics.This role requires deep expertise across:Brand creation and category leadershipIndustrial and vocational market positioningDirect-to-customer and field-driven marketingDemand generation and revenue growthCommunity, influencer, and ecosystem-led engagementDigital and social brand developmentAI-enabled marketing strategy and operationsThe objective is to build a brand that customers trust, operators identify with, and the industry recognizes as a clear market leader. Core Responsibilities1. Brand Building & Category LeadershipBuild and scale a differentiated, category-leading industrial brandEstablish the company as a recognized market leader within targeted vocational industriesDevelop positioning that combines emotional relevance with commercial clarityCreate clear, compelling narratives that resonate with fleets, operators, and industrial buying groupsDrive long-term brand equity, loyalty, and industry influenceEnsure consistent brand expression across all customer and employee touchpoints 2. Marketing & Growth StrategyOwn the company’s end-to-end marketing and growth strategyDefine go-to-market strategies by industry, segment, and applicationAlign marketing strategy tightly with commercial growth priorities and revenue objectivesTranslate market insight into scalable, measurable growth programsEnsure integration across brand, demand generation, customer lifecycle, and channel strategy 3. Demand Generation & Commercial ImpactAccountable for marketing’s measurable contribution to qualified pipeline, revenue growth, and demand funnel efficiencyLead the development of measurable demand generation systems, including:Account-Based Marketing (ABM)Lifecycle marketingDigital acquisition and optimizationField and event-driven demandCustomer advocacy and referral programsImprove lead quality, conversion rates, CAC efficiency, and lifetime valuePartner closely with Sales, Service, Product, and Commercial leadership to ensure full funnel alignment 4. Vocational Market Engagement & Customer ProximityLeads market development through direct engagement with core vocational stakeholders, including fleet owners, operators, maintenance leaders, and procurement teams Ensure the brand is visible, credible, and active within real operating environmentsStrengthening customer loyalty, advocacy, and long-term account penetrationDevelop deep connections within vocational and industrial ecosystems 5. Grassroots, Influencer & Community-Led GrowthDevelop high-impact grassroots and field-driven marketing programsLeverage influencers, operators, and customer advocates to amplify brand credibilityDefine channel strategy and ensure execution across channel platforms such as LinkedIn, YouTube, trade media, and relevant industry platformsBuild authentic, operator-focused storytelling that resonates beyond traditional marketing channelsCreate marketing that earns attention, trust, and engagement, not just impressions 6. AI-Enabled Marketing Operating ModelLead the adoption of AI across marketing strategy, execution, and decision-makingEmbed AI into:Content development and scalingCampaign optimization and targetingCustomer insight generationMarketing automation and workflow efficiencyDemonstrate measurable gains in speed, scalability, and productivity through AI in marketing operations environmentEstablish governance ensuring AI enhances, not replaces, human judgment and brand integrity 7. Team Leadership & Capability DevelopmentExecutes through a structured high-performance, modern marketing organization with defined ownership across Brand, Demand Generation, Digital, and AnalyticsBuild and lead a high-performance, modern marketing organizationEstablish strong leadership across:Brand strategyDemand generationDigital and analyticsContent and field marketingDefine clear roles, ownership, KPIs, and accountability mechanismsBuild a culture focused on execution discipline, creativity, speed, and measurable outcomes Experience & QualificationsRequired15+ years of progressive marketing leadership experienceProven success building and scaling category-defining brandsDemonstrated ability to drive both brand creation and measurable commercial growthExperience in industrial, automotive, vocational, OEM, or similarly complex B2B sectorsTrack record of driving pipeline and revenue impact, not just awarenessExperience marketing to multi-stakeholder, long-cycle buying environmentsStrong commercial, operational, and strategic mindsetProven experience implementing AI within marketing strategy and operations PreferredCommercial vehicle, truck, or industrial equipment experienceExperience building brands with strong operator and customer loyaltyBackground in grassroots, field-driven, or community-led marketingExperience leveraging influencer or creator ecosystems in industrial marketsExperience modernizing marketing organizations and systems What Success Looks LikeThe company is recognized as a market leader within its vocational categoriesBrand awareness, credibility, and influence increase materiallyStrong and sustained growth in direct customer engagementA predictable, scalable demand generation engine is in placeMarketing is fully aligned with Sales, Service, and Commercial leadershipAI materially improves marketing efficiency, cycle time, and output qualityMarketing is viewed as a core commercial growth driver, not a support functionThe brand achieves high levels of loyalty, advocacy, and long-term relevance Apply Apply Later ← Back to Current Openings Share lang: en_US Share LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Email Don't see your dream job? Submit Your Resume © Copyright document.write(new Date().getFullYear())2026 GVW Group, LLC All rights reserved. Powered by Jobvite

About Us Career Areas Featured Jobs Search All Open Jobs Submit Your Resume { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "JobPosting", "datePosted": "2026-05-20", "description": "

\u00A0

Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

Category-Defining Brand Builder | Industrial Growth Leader | AI\u2011Enabled Marketing

Location: Cape Town South Africa\u00A0

\u00A0

The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is responsible for building a category-defining industrial brand and a scalable commercial growth engine that drives market penetration, customer engagement, pipeline development, and revenue growth.

This is not a traditional corporate marketing role. The company is seeking a builder, not a caretaker - a leader with a proven track record of creating, scaling, and leading brands that define and dominate their categories, not simply managing established brand systems.

The CMO will lead market development across targeted vocational industries through direct engagement with fleets, operators, owners, procurement teams, and broader buying groups, ensuring the brand is grounded in real customer environments and decision dynamics.

This role requires deep expertise across:

  • Brand creation and category leadership
  • Industrial and vocational market positioning
  • Direct-to-customer and field-driven marketing
  • Demand generation and revenue growth
  • Community, influencer, and ecosystem-led engagement
  • Digital and social brand development
  • AI-enabled marketing strategy and operations

The objective is to build a brand that customers trust, operators identify with, and the industry recognizes as a clear market leader.

\u00A0

Core Responsibilities

1. Brand Building & Category Leadership

  • Build and scale a differentiated, category-leading industrial brand
  • Establish the company as a recognized market leader within targeted vocational industries
  • Develop positioning that combines emotional relevance with commercial clarity
  • Create clear, compelling narratives that resonate with fleets, operators, and industrial buying groups
  • Drive long-term brand equity, loyalty, and industry influence
  • Ensure consistent brand expression across all customer and employee touchpoints

\u00A0

2. Marketing & Growth Strategy

  • Own the company\u2019s end-to-end marketing and growth strategy
  • Define go-to-market strategies by industry, segment, and application
  • Align marketing strategy tightly with commercial growth priorities and revenue objectives
  • Translate market insight into scalable, measurable growth programs
  • Ensure integration across brand, demand generation, customer lifecycle, and channel strategy

\u00A0

3. Demand Generation & Commercial Impact

  • Accountable for marketing\u2019s measurable contribution to qualified pipeline, revenue growth, and demand funnel efficiency
  • Lead the development of measurable demand generation systems, including:
    • Account-Based Marketing (ABM)
    • Lifecycle marketing
    • Digital acquisition and optimization
    • Field and event-driven demand
    • Customer advocacy and referral programs
  • Improve lead quality, conversion rates, CAC efficiency, and lifetime value
  • Partner closely with Sales, Service, Product, and Commercial leadership to ensure full funnel alignment

\u00A0

4. Vocational Market Engagement & Customer Proximity

  • Leads market development through direct engagement with core vocational stakeholders, including fleet owners, operators, maintenance leaders, and procurement teams
  • Ensure the brand is visible, credible, and active within real operating environments
  • Strengthening customer loyalty, advocacy, and long-term account penetration
  • Develop deep connections within vocational and industrial ecosystems

\u00A0

5. Grassroots, Influencer & Community-Led Growth

  • Develop high-impact grassroots and field-driven marketing programs
  • Leverage influencers, operators, and customer advocates to amplify brand credibility
  • Define channel strategy and ensure execution across channel platforms such as LinkedIn, YouTube, trade media, and relevant industry platforms
  • Build authentic, operator-focused storytelling that resonates beyond traditional marketing channels
  • Create marketing that earns attention, trust, and engagement, not just impressions

\u00A0

6. AI-Enabled Marketing Operating Model

  • Lead the adoption of AI across marketing strategy, execution, and decision-making
  • Embed AI into:
    • Content development and scaling
    • Campaign optimization and targeting
    • Customer insight generation
    • Marketing automation and workflow efficiency
  • Demonstrate measurable gains in speed, scalability, and productivity through AI in marketing operations environment
  • Establish governance ensuring AI enhances, not replaces, human judgment and brand integrity

\u00A0

7. Team Leadership & Capability Development

  • Executes through a structured high-performance, modern marketing organization with defined ownership across Brand, Demand Generation, Digital, and Analytics
  • Build and lead a high-performance, modern marketing organization
  • Establish strong leadership across:
    • Brand strategy
    • Demand generation
    • Digital and analytics
    • Content and field marketing
  • Define clear roles, ownership, KPIs, and accountability mechanisms
  • Build a culture focused on execution discipline, creativity, speed, and measurable outcomes

\u00A0

Experience & Qualifications

Required

  • 15+ years of progressive marketing leadership experience
  • Proven success building and scaling category-defining brands
  • Demonstrated ability to drive both brand creation and measurable commercial growth
  • Experience in industrial, automotive, vocational, OEM, or similarly complex B2B sectors
  • Track record of driving pipeline and revenue impact, not just awareness
  • Experience marketing to multi-stakeholder, long-cycle buying environments
  • Strong commercial, operational, and strategic mindset
  • Proven experience implementing AI within marketing strategy and operations

\u00A0

Preferred

  • Commercial vehicle, truck, or industrial equipment experience
  • Experience building brands with strong operator and customer loyalty
  • Background in grassroots, field-driven, or community-led marketing
  • Experience leveraging influencer or creator ecosystems in industrial markets
  • Experience modernizing marketing organizations and systems

\u00A0

What Success Looks Like

  • The company is recognized as a market leader within its vocational categories
  • Brand awareness, credibility, and influence increase materially
  • Strong and sustained growth in direct customer engagement
  • A predictable, scalable demand generation engine is in place
  • Marketing is fully aligned with Sales, Service, and Commercial leadership
  • AI materially improves marketing efficiency, cycle time, and output quality
  • Marketing is viewed as a core commercial growth driver, not a support function
  • The brand achieves high levels of loyalty, advocacy, and long-term relevance
", "hiringOrganization": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "GVW Group, LLC", "logo": "https:\/\/app.jobvite.com\/logo\/5277GVWGroupverysmall_1775675981495.png" }, "employmentType": "Full-Time- Exempt", "industry": "Sales & Marketing", "identifier": "oX5aAfww", "jobLocation": [ { "@type": "Place", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "addressCountry": "South Africa" } } ], "title": "Chief Marketing Officer", "baseSalary": { "@type": "MonetaryAmount", "currency": "", "value": { "@type": "QuantitativeValue", "minValue": "", "maxValue": "", "unitText": "" } } } Chief Marketing Officer Sales & Marketing Durbanville, South Africa Apply Description Position at GVW Group, LLC Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)Category-Defining Brand Builder | Industrial Growth Leader | AI‑Enabled MarketingLocation: Cape Town South Africa The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is responsible for building a category-defining industrial brand and a scalable commercial growth engine that drives market penetration, customer engagement, pipeline development, and revenue growth.This is not a traditional corporate marketing role. The company is seeking a builder, not a caretaker - a leader with a proven track record of creating, scaling, and leading brands that define and dominate their categories, not simply managing established brand systems.The CMO will lead market development across targeted vocational industries through direct engagement with fleets, operators, owners, procurement teams, and broader buying groups, ensuring the brand is grounded in real customer environments and decision dynamics.This role requires deep expertise across:Brand creation and category leadershipIndustrial and vocational market positioningDirect-to-customer and field-driven marketingDemand generation and revenue growthCommunity, influencer, and ecosystem-led engagementDigital and social brand developmentAI-enabled marketing strategy and operationsThe objective is to build a brand that customers trust, operators identify with, and the industry recognizes as a clear market leader. Core Responsibilities1. Brand Building & Category LeadershipBuild and scale a differentiated, category-leading industrial brandEstablish the company as a recognized market leader within targeted vocational industriesDevelop positioning that combines emotional relevance with commercial clarityCreate clear, compelling narratives that resonate with fleets, operators, and industrial buying groupsDrive long-term brand equity, loyalty, and industry influenceEnsure consistent brand expression across all customer and employee touchpoints 2. Marketing & Growth StrategyOwn the company’s end-to-end marketing and growth strategyDefine go-to-market strategies by industry, segment, and applicationAlign marketing strategy tightly with commercial growth priorities and revenue objectivesTranslate market insight into scalable, measurable growth programsEnsure integration across brand, demand generation, customer lifecycle, and channel strategy 3. Demand Generation & Commercial ImpactAccountable for marketing’s measurable contribution to qualified pipeline, revenue growth, and demand funnel efficiencyLead the development of measurable demand generation systems, including:Account-Based Marketing (ABM)Lifecycle marketingDigital acquisition and optimizationField and event-driven demandCustomer advocacy and referral programsImprove lead quality, conversion rates, CAC efficiency, and lifetime valuePartner closely with Sales, Service, Product, and Commercial leadership to ensure full funnel alignment 4. Vocational Market Engagement & Customer ProximityLeads market development through direct engagement with core vocational stakeholders, including fleet owners, operators, maintenance leaders, and procurement teams Ensure the brand is visible, credible, and active within real operating environmentsStrengthening customer loyalty, advocacy, and long-term account penetrationDevelop deep connections within vocational and industrial ecosystems 5. Grassroots, Influencer & Community-Led GrowthDevelop high-impact grassroots and field-driven marketing programsLeverage influencers, operators, and customer advocates to amplify brand credibilityDefine channel strategy and ensure execution across channel platforms such as LinkedIn, YouTube, trade media, and relevant industry platformsBuild authentic, operator-focused storytelling that resonates beyond traditional marketing channelsCreate marketing that earns attention, trust, and engagement, not just impressions 6. AI-Enabled Marketing Operating ModelLead the adoption of AI across marketing strategy, execution, and decision-makingEmbed AI into:Content development and scalingCampaign optimization and targetingCustomer insight generationMarketing automation and workflow efficiencyDemonstrate measurable gains in speed, scalability, and productivity through AI in marketing operations environmentEstablish governance ensuring AI enhances, not replaces, human judgment and brand integrity 7. Team Leadership & Capability DevelopmentExecutes through a structured high-performance, modern marketing organization with defined ownership across Brand, Demand Generation, Digital, and AnalyticsBuild and lead a high-performance, modern marketing organizationEstablish strong leadership across:Brand strategyDemand generationDigital and analyticsContent and field marketingDefine clear roles, ownership, KPIs, and accountability mechanismsBuild a culture focused on execution discipline, creativity, speed, and measurable outcomes Experience & QualificationsRequired15+ years of progressive marketing leadership experienceProven success building and scaling category-defining brandsDemonstrated ability to drive both brand creation and measurable commercial growthExperience in industrial, automotive, vocational, OEM, or similarly complex B2B sectorsTrack record of driving pipeline and revenue impact, not just awarenessExperience marketing to multi-stakeholder, long-cycle buying environmentsStrong commercial, operational, and strategic mindsetProven experience implementing AI within marketing strategy and operations PreferredCommercial vehicle, truck, or industrial equipment experienceExperience building brands with strong operator and customer loyaltyBackground in grassroots, field-driven, or community-led marketingExperience leveraging influencer or creator ecosystems in industrial marketsExperience modernizing marketing organizations and systems What Success Looks LikeThe company is recognized as a market leader within its vocational categoriesBrand awareness, credibility, and influence increase materiallyStrong and sustained growth in direct customer engagementA predictable, scalable demand generation engine is in placeMarketing is fully aligned with Sales, Service, and Commercial leadershipAI materially improves marketing efficiency, cycle time, and output qualityMarketing is viewed as a core commercial growth driver, not a support functionThe brand achieves high levels of loyalty, advocacy, and long-term relevance Apply Apply Later ← Back to Current Openings Share lang: en_US Share LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Email Don't see your dream job? Submit Your Resume © Copyright document.write(new Date().getFullYear())2026 GVW Group, LLC All rights reserved. Powered by Jobvite

About Us Career Areas Featured Jobs Search All Open Jobs Submit Your Resume { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "JobPosting", "datePosted": "2026-05-20", "description": "

\u00A0

Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

Category-Defining Brand Builder | Industrial Growth Leader | AI\u2011Enabled Marketing

Location: Cape Town South Africa\u00A0

\u00A0

The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is responsible for building a category-defining industrial brand and a scalable commercial growth engine that drives market penetration, customer engagement, pipeline development, and revenue growth.

This is not a traditional corporate marketing role. The company is seeking a builder, not a caretaker - a leader with a proven track record of creating, scaling, and leading brands that define and dominate their categories, not simply managing established brand systems.

The CMO will lead market development across targeted vocational industries through direct engagement with fleets, operators, owners, procurement teams, and broader buying groups, ensuring the brand is grounded in real customer environments and decision dynamics.

This role requires deep expertise across:

  • Brand creation and category leadership
  • Industrial and vocational market positioning
  • Direct-to-customer and field-driven marketing
  • Demand generation and revenue growth
  • Community, influencer, and ecosystem-led engagement
  • Digital and social brand development
  • AI-enabled marketing strategy and operations

The objective is to build a brand that customers trust, operators identify with, and the industry recognizes as a clear market leader.

\u00A0

Core Responsibilities

1. Brand Building & Category Leadership

  • Build and scale a differentiated, category-leading industrial brand
  • Establish the company as a recognized market leader within targeted vocational industries
  • Develop positioning that combines emotional relevance with commercial clarity
  • Create clear, compelling narratives that resonate with fleets, operators, and industrial buying groups
  • Drive long-term brand equity, loyalty, and industry influence
  • Ensure consistent brand expression across all customer and employee touchpoints

\u00A0

2. Marketing & Growth Strategy

  • Own the company\u2019s end-to-end marketing and growth strategy
  • Define go-to-market strategies by industry, segment, and application
  • Align marketing strategy tightly with commercial growth priorities and revenue objectives
  • Translate market insight into scalable, measurable growth programs
  • Ensure integration across brand, demand generation, customer lifecycle, and channel strategy

\u00A0

3. Demand Generation & Commercial Impact

  • Accountable for marketing\u2019s measurable contribution to qualified pipeline, revenue growth, and demand funnel efficiency
  • Lead the development of measurable demand generation systems, including:
    • Account-Based Marketing (ABM)
    • Lifecycle marketing
    • Digital acquisition and optimization
    • Field and event-driven demand
    • Customer advocacy and referral programs
  • Improve lead quality, conversion rates, CAC efficiency, and lifetime value
  • Partner closely with Sales, Service, Product, and Commercial leadership to ensure full funnel alignment

\u00A0

4. Vocational Market Engagement & Customer Proximity

  • Leads market development through direct engagement with core vocational stakeholders, including fleet owners, operators, maintenance leaders, and procurement teams
  • Ensure the brand is visible, credible, and active within real operating environments
  • Strengthening customer loyalty, advocacy, and long-term account penetration
  • Develop deep connections within vocational and industrial ecosystems

\u00A0

5. Grassroots, Influencer & Community-Led Growth

  • Develop high-impact grassroots and field-driven marketing programs
  • Leverage influencers, operators, and customer advocates to amplify brand credibility
  • Define channel strategy and ensure execution across channel platforms such as LinkedIn, YouTube, trade media, and relevant industry platforms
  • Build authentic, operator-focused storytelling that resonates beyond traditional marketing channels
  • Create marketing that earns attention, trust, and engagement, not just impressions

\u00A0

6. AI-Enabled Marketing Operating Model

  • Lead the adoption of AI across marketing strategy, execution, and decision-making
  • Embed AI into:
    • Content development and scaling
    • Campaign optimization and targeting
    • Customer insight generation
    • Marketing automation and workflow efficiency
  • Demonstrate measurable gains in speed, scalability, and productivity through AI in marketing operations environment
  • Establish governance ensuring AI enhances, not replaces, human judgment and brand integrity

\u00A0

7. Team Leadership & Capability Development

  • Executes through a structured high-performance, modern marketing organization with defined ownership across Brand, Demand Generation, Digital, and Analytics
  • Build and lead a high-performance, modern marketing organization
  • Establish strong leadership across:
    • Brand strategy
    • Demand generation
    • Digital and analytics
    • Content and field marketing
  • Define clear roles, ownership, KPIs, and accountability mechanisms
  • Build a culture focused on execution discipline, creativity, speed, and measurable outcomes

\u00A0

Experience & Qualifications

Required

  • 15+ years of progressive marketing leadership experience
  • Proven success building and scaling category-defining brands
  • Demonstrated ability to drive both brand creation and measurable commercial growth
  • Experience in industrial, automotive, vocational, OEM, or similarly complex B2B sectors
  • Track record of driving pipeline and revenue impact, not just awareness
  • Experience marketing to multi-stakeholder, long-cycle buying environments
  • Strong commercial, operational, and strategic mindset
  • Proven experience implementing AI within marketing strategy and operations

\u00A0

Preferred

  • Commercial vehicle, truck, or industrial equipment experience
  • Experience building brands with strong operator and customer loyalty
  • Background in grassroots, field-driven, or community-led marketing
  • Experience leveraging influencer or creator ecosystems in industrial markets
  • Experience modernizing marketing organizations and systems

\u00A0

What Success Looks Like

  • The company is recognized as a market leader within its vocational categories
  • Brand awareness, credibility, and influence increase materially
  • Strong and sustained growth in direct customer engagement
  • A predictable, scalable demand generation engine is in place
  • Marketing is fully aligned with Sales, Service, and Commercial leadership
  • AI materially improves marketing efficiency, cycle time, and output quality
  • Marketing is viewed as a core commercial growth driver, not a support function
  • The brand achieves high levels of loyalty, advocacy, and long-term relevance
", "hiringOrganization": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "GVW Group, LLC", "logo": "https:\/\/app.jobvite.com\/logo\/5277GVWGroupverysmall_1775675981495.png" }, "employmentType": "Full-Time- Exempt", "industry": "Sales & Marketing", "identifier": "oX5aAfww", "jobLocation": [ { "@type": "Place", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "addressCountry": "South Africa" } } ], "title": "Chief Marketing Officer", "baseSalary": { "@type": "MonetaryAmount", "currency": "", "value": { "@type": "QuantitativeValue", "minValue": "", "maxValue": "", "unitText": "" } } } Chief Marketing Officer Sales & Marketing Durbanville, South Africa Apply Description Position at GVW Group, LLC Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)Category-Defining Brand Builder | Industrial Growth Leader | AI‑Enabled MarketingLocation: Cape Town South Africa The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is responsible for building a category-defining industrial brand and a scalable commercial growth engine that drives market penetration, customer engagement, pipeline development, and revenue growth.This is not a traditional corporate marketing role. The company is seeking a builder, not a caretaker - a leader with a proven track record of creating, scaling, and leading brands that define and dominate their categories, not simply managing established brand systems.The CMO will lead market development across targeted vocational industries through direct engagement with fleets, operators, owners, procurement teams, and broader buying groups, ensuring the brand is grounded in real customer environments and decision dynamics.This role requires deep expertise across:Brand creation and category leadershipIndustrial and vocational market positioningDirect-to-customer and field-driven marketingDemand generation and revenue growthCommunity, influencer, and ecosystem-led engagementDigital and social brand developmentAI-enabled marketing strategy and operationsThe objective is to build a brand that customers trust, operators identify with, and the industry recognizes as a clear market leader. Core Responsibilities1. Brand Building & Category LeadershipBuild and scale a differentiated, category-leading industrial brandEstablish the company as a recognized market leader within targeted vocational industriesDevelop positioning that combines emotional relevance with commercial clarityCreate clear, compelling narratives that resonate with fleets, operators, and industrial buying groupsDrive long-term brand equity, loyalty, and industry influenceEnsure consistent brand expression across all customer and employee touchpoints 2. Marketing & Growth StrategyOwn the company’s end-to-end marketing and growth strategyDefine go-to-market strategies by industry, segment, and applicationAlign marketing strategy tightly with commercial growth priorities and revenue objectivesTranslate market insight into scalable, measurable growth programsEnsure integration across brand, demand generation, customer lifecycle, and channel strategy 3. Demand Generation & Commercial ImpactAccountable for marketing’s measurable contribution to qualified pipeline, revenue growth, and demand funnel efficiencyLead the development of measurable demand generation systems, including:Account-Based Marketing (ABM)Lifecycle marketingDigital acquisition and optimizationField and event-driven demandCustomer advocacy and referral programsImprove lead quality, conversion rates, CAC efficiency, and lifetime valuePartner closely with Sales, Service, Product, and Commercial leadership to ensure full funnel alignment 4. Vocational Market Engagement & Customer ProximityLeads market development through direct engagement with core vocational stakeholders, including fleet owners, operators, maintenance leaders, and procurement teams Ensure the brand is visible, credible, and active within real operating environmentsStrengthening customer loyalty, advocacy, and long-term account penetrationDevelop deep connections within vocational and industrial ecosystems 5. Grassroots, Influencer & Community-Led GrowthDevelop high-impact grassroots and field-driven marketing programsLeverage influencers, operators, and customer advocates to amplify brand credibilityDefine channel strategy and ensure execution across channel platforms such as LinkedIn, YouTube, trade media, and relevant industry platformsBuild authentic, operator-focused storytelling that resonates beyond traditional marketing channelsCreate marketing that earns attention, trust, and engagement, not just impressions 6. AI-Enabled Marketing Operating ModelLead the adoption of AI across marketing strategy, execution, and decision-makingEmbed AI into:Content development and scalingCampaign optimization and targetingCustomer insight generationMarketing automation and workflow efficiencyDemonstrate measurable gains in speed, scalability, and productivity through AI in marketing operations environmentEstablish governance ensuring AI enhances, not replaces, human judgment and brand integrity 7. Team Leadership & Capability DevelopmentExecutes through a structured high-performance, modern marketing organization with defined ownership across Brand, Demand Generation, Digital, and AnalyticsBuild and lead a high-performance, modern marketing organizationEstablish strong leadership across:Brand strategyDemand generationDigital and analyticsContent and field marketingDefine clear roles, ownership, KPIs, and accountability mechanismsBuild a culture focused on execution discipline, creativity, speed, and measurable outcomes Experience & QualificationsRequired15+ years of progressive marketing leadership experienceProven success building and scaling category-defining brandsDemonstrated ability to drive both brand creation and measurable commercial growthExperience in industrial, automotive, vocational, OEM, or similarly complex B2B sectorsTrack record of driving pipeline and revenue impact, not just awarenessExperience marketing to multi-stakeholder, long-cycle buying environmentsStrong commercial, operational, and strategic mindsetProven experience implementing AI within marketing strategy and operations PreferredCommercial vehicle, truck, or industrial equipment experienceExperience building brands with strong operator and customer loyaltyBackground in grassroots, field-driven, or community-led marketingExperience leveraging influencer or creator ecosystems in industrial marketsExperience modernizing marketing organizations and systems What Success Looks LikeThe company is recognized as a market leader within its vocational categoriesBrand awareness, credibility, and influence increase materiallyStrong and sustained growth in direct customer engagementA predictable, scalable demand generation engine is in placeMarketing is fully aligned with Sales, Service, and Commercial leadershipAI materially improves marketing efficiency, cycle time, and output qualityMarketing is viewed as a core commercial growth driver, not a support functionThe brand achieves high levels of loyalty, advocacy, and long-term relevance Apply Apply Later ← Back to Current Openings Share lang: en_US Share LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Email Don't see your dream job? 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Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

Category-Defining Brand Builder | Industrial Growth Leader | AI\u2011Enabled Marketing

Location: Cape Town South Africa\u00A0

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The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is responsible for building a category-defining industrial brand and a scalable commercial growth engine that drives market penetration, customer engagement, pipeline development, and revenue growth.

This is not a traditional corporate marketing role. The company is seeking a builder, not a caretaker - a leader with a proven track record of creating, scaling, and leading brands that define and dominate their categories, not simply managing established brand systems.

The CMO will lead market development across targeted vocational industries through direct engagement with fleets, operators, owners, procurement teams, and broader buying groups, ensuring the brand is grounded in real customer environments and decision dynamics.

This role requires deep expertise across:

  • Brand creation and category leadership
  • Industrial and vocational market positioning
  • Direct-to-customer and field-driven marketing
  • Demand generation and revenue growth
  • Community, influencer, and ecosystem-led engagement
  • Digital and social brand development
  • AI-enabled marketing strategy and operations

The objective is to build a brand that customers trust, operators identify with, and the industry recognizes as a clear market leader.

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Core Responsibilities

1. Brand Building & Category Leadership

  • Build and scale a differentiated, category-leading industrial brand
  • Establish the company as a recognized market leader within targeted vocational industries
  • Develop positioning that combines emotional relevance with commercial clarity
  • Create clear, compelling narratives that resonate with fleets, operators, and industrial buying groups
  • Drive long-term brand equity, loyalty, and industry influence
  • Ensure consistent brand expression across all customer and employee touchpoints

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2. Marketing & Growth Strategy

  • Own the company\u2019s end-to-end marketing and growth strategy
  • Define go-to-market strategies by industry, segment, and application
  • Align marketing strategy tightly with commercial growth priorities and revenue objectives
  • Translate market insight into scalable, measurable growth programs
  • Ensure integration across brand, demand generation, customer lifecycle, and channel strategy

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3. Demand Generation & Commercial Impact

  • Accountable for marketing\u2019s measurable contribution to qualified pipeline, revenue growth, and demand funnel efficiency
  • Lead the development of measurable demand generation systems, including:
    • Account-Based Marketing (ABM)
    • Lifecycle marketing
    • Digital acquisition and optimization
    • Field and event-driven demand
    • Customer advocacy and referral programs
  • Improve lead quality, conversion rates, CAC efficiency, and lifetime value
  • Partner closely with Sales, Service, Product, and Commercial leadership to ensure full funnel alignment

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4. Vocational Market Engagement & Customer Proximity

  • Leads market development through direct engagement with core vocational stakeholders, including fleet owners, operators, maintenance leaders, and procurement teams
  • Ensure the brand is visible, credible, and active within real operating environments
  • Strengthening customer loyalty, advocacy, and long-term account penetration
  • Develop deep connections within vocational and industrial ecosystems

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5. Grassroots, Influencer & Community-Led Growth

  • Develop high-impact grassroots and field-driven marketing programs
  • Leverage influencers, operators, and customer advocates to amplify brand credibility
  • Define channel strategy and ensure execution across channel platforms such as LinkedIn, YouTube, trade media, and relevant industry platforms
  • Build authentic, operator-focused storytelling that resonates beyond traditional marketing channels
  • Create marketing that earns attention, trust, and engagement, not just impressions

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6. AI-Enabled Marketing Operating Model

  • Lead the adoption of AI across marketing strategy, execution, and decision-making
  • Embed AI into:
    • Content development and scaling
    • Campaign optimization and targeting
    • Customer insight generation
    • Marketing automation and workflow efficiency
  • Demonstrate measurable gains in speed, scalability, and productivity through AI in marketing operations environment
  • Establish governance ensuring AI enhances, not replaces, human judgment and brand integrity

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7. Team Leadership & Capability Development

  • Executes through a structured high-performance, modern marketing organization with defined ownership across Brand, Demand Generation, Digital, and Analytics
  • Build and lead a high-performance, modern marketing organization
  • Establish strong leadership across:
    • Brand strategy
    • Demand generation
    • Digital and analytics
    • Content and field marketing
  • Define clear roles, ownership, KPIs, and accountability mechanisms
  • Build a culture focused on execution discipline, creativity, speed, and measurable outcomes

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Experience & Qualifications

Required

  • 15+ years of progressive marketing leadership experience
  • Proven success building and scaling category-defining brands
  • Demonstrated ability to drive both brand creation and measurable commercial growth
  • Experience in industrial, automotive, vocational, OEM, or similarly complex B2B sectors
  • Track record of driving pipeline and revenue impact, not just awareness
  • Experience marketing to multi-stakeholder, long-cycle buying environments
  • Strong commercial, operational, and strategic mindset
  • Proven experience implementing AI within marketing strategy and operations

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Preferred

  • Commercial vehicle, truck, or industrial equipment experience
  • Experience building brands with strong operator and customer loyalty
  • Background in grassroots, field-driven, or community-led marketing
  • Experience leveraging influencer or creator ecosystems in industrial markets
  • Experience modernizing marketing organizations and systems

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What Success Looks Like

  • The company is recognized as a market leader within its vocational categories
  • Brand awareness, credibility, and influence increase materially
  • Strong and sustained growth in direct customer engagement
  • A predictable, scalable demand generation engine is in place
  • Marketing is fully aligned with Sales, Service, and Commercial leadership
  • AI materially improves marketing efficiency, cycle time, and output quality
  • Marketing is viewed as a core commercial growth driver, not a support function
  • The brand achieves high levels of loyalty, advocacy, and long-term relevance
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The company is seeking a builder, not a caretaker - a leader with a proven track record of creating, scaling, and leading brands that define and dominate their categories, not simply managing established brand systems.The CMO will lead market development across targeted vocational industries through direct engagement with fleets, operators, owners, procurement teams, and broader buying groups, ensuring the brand is grounded in real customer environments and decision dynamics.This role requires deep expertise across:Brand creation and category leadershipIndustrial and vocational market positioningDirect-to-customer and field-driven marketingDemand generation and revenue growthCommunity, influencer, and ecosystem-led engagementDigital and social brand developmentAI-enabled marketing strategy and operationsThe objective is to build a brand that customers trust, operators identify with, and the industry recognizes as a clear market leader. Core Responsibilities1. Brand Building & Category LeadershipBuild and scale a differentiated, category-leading industrial brandEstablish the company as a recognized market leader within targeted vocational industriesDevelop positioning that combines emotional relevance with commercial clarityCreate clear, compelling narratives that resonate with fleets, operators, and industrial buying groupsDrive long-term brand equity, loyalty, and industry influenceEnsure consistent brand expression across all customer and employee touchpoints 2. Marketing & Growth StrategyOwn the company’s end-to-end marketing and growth strategyDefine go-to-market strategies by industry, segment, and applicationAlign marketing strategy tightly with commercial growth priorities and revenue objectivesTranslate market insight into scalable, measurable growth programsEnsure integration across brand, demand generation, customer lifecycle, and channel strategy 3. Demand Generation & Commercial ImpactAccountable for marketing’s measurable contribution to qualified pipeline, revenue growth, and demand funnel efficiencyLead the development of measurable demand generation systems, including:Account-Based Marketing (ABM)Lifecycle marketingDigital acquisition and optimizationField and event-driven demandCustomer advocacy and referral programsImprove lead quality, conversion rates, CAC efficiency, and lifetime valuePartner closely with Sales, Service, Product, and Commercial leadership to ensure full funnel alignment 4. Vocational Market Engagement & Customer ProximityLeads market development through direct engagement with core vocational stakeholders, including fleet owners, operators, maintenance leaders, and procurement teams Ensure the brand is visible, credible, and active within real operating environmentsStrengthening customer loyalty, advocacy, and long-term account penetrationDevelop deep connections within vocational and industrial ecosystems 5. Grassroots, Influencer & Community-Led GrowthDevelop high-impact grassroots and field-driven marketing programsLeverage influencers, operators, and customer advocates to amplify brand credibilityDefine channel strategy and ensure execution across channel platforms such as LinkedIn, YouTube, trade media, and relevant industry platformsBuild authentic, operator-focused storytelling that resonates beyond traditional marketing channelsCreate marketing that earns attention, trust, and engagement, not just impressions 6. AI-Enabled Marketing Operating ModelLead the adoption of AI across marketing strategy, execution, and decision-makingEmbed AI into:Content development and scalingCampaign optimization and targetingCustomer insight generationMarketing automation and workflow efficiencyDemonstrate measurable gains in speed, scalability, and productivity through AI in marketing operations environmentEstablish governance ensuring AI enhances, not replaces, human judgment and brand integrity 7. Team Leadership & Capability DevelopmentExecutes through a structured high-performance, modern marketing organization with defined ownership across Brand, Demand Generation, Digital, and AnalyticsBuild and lead a high-performance, modern marketing organizationEstablish strong leadership across:Brand strategyDemand generationDigital and analyticsContent and field marketingDefine clear roles, ownership, KPIs, and accountability mechanismsBuild a culture focused on execution discipline, creativity, speed, and measurable outcomes Experience & QualificationsRequired15+ years of progressive marketing leadership experienceProven success building and scaling category-defining brandsDemonstrated ability to drive both brand creation and measurable commercial growthExperience in industrial, automotive, vocational, OEM, or similarly complex B2B sectorsTrack record of driving pipeline and revenue impact, not just awarenessExperience marketing to multi-stakeholder, long-cycle buying environmentsStrong commercial, operational, and strategic mindsetProven experience implementing AI within marketing strategy and operations PreferredCommercial vehicle, truck, or industrial equipment experienceExperience building brands with strong operator and customer loyaltyBackground in grassroots, field-driven, or community-led marketingExperience leveraging influencer or creator ecosystems in industrial marketsExperience modernizing marketing organizations and systems What Success Looks LikeThe company is recognized as a market leader within its vocational categoriesBrand awareness, credibility, and influence increase materiallyStrong and sustained growth in direct customer engagementA predictable, scalable demand generation engine is in placeMarketing is fully aligned with Sales, Service, and Commercial leadershipAI materially improves marketing efficiency, cycle time, and output qualityMarketing is viewed as a core commercial growth driver, not a support functionThe brand achieves high levels of loyalty, advocacy, and long-term relevance Apply Apply Later ← Back to Current Openings Share lang: en_US Share LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Email

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