Interim Head of Marketing

Department: Commercial

Employment Type: Contract / Temp

Location: Global

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day marketing function, establishing clear priorities and ensuring that multiple workstreams continue moving forward.
• Manage and develop our Marketing Associate and Designer, while providing clear direction to external agencies and partners.
• Set and manage quarterly marketing OKRs, tracking progress and ensuring the team remains focused on agreed priorities and outcomes.
• Lead the planning and delivery of senior-level, highly curated events, where the relevance and quality of the guest list matter more than audience size.
• Manage events from start to finish, including concept development, partnerships, invitations, guest management, run-of-show and follow-up.
• Deliver InPlanet’s presence and related activities around COP31, Davos, Zurich and San Francisco Climate Week.
• Begin planning London Climate Action Week 2027 and ensure it is ready for a smooth handover.
• Work directly with prospective buyers, partners and senior external stakeholders across the carbon removal and agriculture sectors.
• Build and deliver targeted demand-generation campaigns that support buyer engagement, lead generation and commercial pipeline growth.
• Take hands-on ownership of HubSpot, including lifecycle stages, contact and company data, buyer profiles, campaigns and reporting.
• Maintain and improve InPlanet’s existing lead-activation playbook.
• Track marketing’s contribution to the commercial pipeline and take accountability for agreed pipeline targets.
• Maintain a consistent publishing rhythm across insights, case studies, LinkedIn and newsletters.
• Translate scientific, agricultural, technical and regulatory information into clear and engaging content without compromising accuracy or nuance.
• Ensure that InPlanet’s climate communications are precise, credible and avoid overclaiming.
• Support press communications and manage media relations, coordinating effectively with journalists, agencies and relevant internal stakeholders.
• Oversee and complete the remaining phases of InPlanet’s website rebuild.
• Manage the marketing budget and make pragmatic decisions about resources and priorities.

You can be a Rock-Star if you have

• 7+ years of B2B marketing experience, including at least two years leading a marketing function or team.
• At least two years of experience line-managing and developing a team of three or more individuals.
• Proven experience producing senior-level, highly curated events.
• Experience working directly with corporate buyers, partners and senior external stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience with HubSpot, including lifecycle stages, contact and company data, buyer profiles, campaigns and reporting.
• Experience building and delivering lead-generation and demand-generation campaigns.
• A strong understanding of how marketing contributes to commercial pipeline growth, with experience working towards pipeline targets.
• Experience setting, managing and reporting against quarterly OKRs.
• Excellent English-language writing and editing skills.
• The ability to turn complex scientific, agricultural, technical or regulatory information into clear and engaging content.
• Working knowledge of press communications and media relations.
• An understanding of the importance of accuracy and avoiding overclaiming in corporate communications.
• Experience managing marketing budgets and making practical trade-offs.
• Experience working in a fast-moving international organisation across multiple teams and time zones.

• You are confident acting as the most senior marketing professional in the room and making decisions independently.
• You combine strategic thinking with a willingness to remain closely involved in execution.
• You are commercially minded, performance-driven and motivated by measurable results.
• You are highly organised and pragmatic and able to keep several workstreams moving at once.
• You are comfortable working autonomously, navigating imperfect information and making quick decisions.
• You provide clear direction and constructive support to team members.
• You are a strong communicator and comfortable working directly with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• You are collaborative, adaptable and motivated by the opportunity to work across agriculture, science and climate.
• You are careful and precise when communicating scientific and impact-related claims.

• You have professional working proficiency in Portuguese — this would be a significant advantage.
• You have experience marketing solutions within agriculture, agtech, food systems, soil science or a related sector.
• You have experience within climate, carbon markets or carbon dioxide removal.
• You are familiar with durable carbon removals, MRV or carbon credits.

Benefits

• Laptop to fuel your productivity
• Compensation expectations and our comp philosophy are openly discussed in the first interview with the goal of managing expectations fairly
• 15 days leave (calculated for the 6 months contract)
• The opportunity to be autonomous, make a huge difference, and belong to a vision.