Fractional Executive Search

When growth stops being a function of effort.

There is a point where working harder stops moving the number. Usually the commercial engine was built for a smaller company and nobody has rebuilt it.

A senior commercial executive at a glass wall above the business district
The situation

What is actually holding revenue back

The symptom is flat revenue. The cause is normally one of these:

01

Pricing has never been tested

Set once, defended since, and eroded quietly by discounting that nobody measures.

02

The pipeline is a list

Deals move when someone chases them, so the forecast is a feeling rather than a forecast.

03

Sales cannot scale past the founder

The founder sells on credibility the rest of the team does not have, and nobody has designed the handover.

04

New markets treated like the home market

Selling across the GCC, into Egypt and the Levant, and out along the Red Sea trade routes rarely works with the model that worked at home, and the reasons only become clear after the first year.

A fractional CRO or CMO rebuilds the engine: positioning, pricing, pipeline discipline and a motion that can be run by people who are not the founder. Embedded on a company-to-company services contract, accountable for the number rather than for the plan.

Is it the right fit?

Who this is for, and who it is not

Best for

  • Revenue that has plateaued after the early channels ran their course
  • Marketing spend going out with little pipeline you can trust coming back
  • Sales and marketing pulling apart, with no one owning the number
  • A founder still carrying the commercial engine personally
  • A new segment or market that needs a proper go-to-market motion

Not for

  • A single campaign or asset an agency could deliver and hand back
  • A business with no product-market fit or revenue to build on yet
  • A tactical execution gap a specialist hire would fill
  • Teams unwilling to give one operator ownership of the number
A modern meeting room at dusk with a city view

A commercial engine, built and run by someone who has done it.

Why Fractional Jeddah

What makes the model different here

Most fractional executives work alone. We are a vetted collective, and we stay with the engagement rather than stepping away after the introduction.

1 monthNotice, either way
350+Curated and vetted executives
2–3 weeksBrief to deployment
30–60%Less than a full-time hire, on our engagements

We do not introduce and leave

Support, structure and governance stay around the placement for as long as it runs. If the engagement drifts, that is our problem to fix, not yours to discover.

The collective behind one placement

Your executive draws on the whole collective of 350+. A finance question that turns out to be an operations question gets the right answer either way.

Continuity is designed in

If your executive has to step away, we hand over to another vetted operator already briefed on your business. Momentum is protected by design rather than by luck.

Matched on judgement, not on a CV

We match on stage, sector and temperament. In Jeddah in particular, an operator who cannot read the room will cost you more than the one you did not hire.

How it works

From diagnosis to revenue momentum

A structured engagement that moves from diagnosis to a working pipeline within months.

01

Commercial diagnostic (weeks 1–2)

Audit your current position, spend, attribution, pipeline, ICP definition, competitive positioning, team capability — and which commercial gap is the real constraint.

02

Strategy and sign-off (weeks 3–4)

A clear, actionable go-to-market strategy with prioritised channels, 90-day milestones, and commercial KPIs.

03

Execution begins (month 2–3)

Channel activation, team direction, agency management, content and campaign deployment.

04

Ongoing commercial review

Monthly pipeline tracking. Continuous optimisation. Your commercial leader stays accountable for revenue outcomes.

Which commercial leader

Do you need a fractional CMO, a CRO, or something else?

Revenue plateaus for different reasons. The right operator depends on where the commercial system is breaking.

If this is the problem
The right commercial leader
If this is the problemPositioning is unclear or the brand is not landing
The right commercial leaderFractional CMO
If this is the problemMarketing spend is not converting to pipeline
The right commercial leaderFractional CMO
If this is the problemSales and marketing are pulling apart
The right commercial leaderFractional CRO
If this is the problemPipeline forecasting is weak or untrusted
The right commercial leaderFractional CRO
If this is the problemThe founder is still the chief salesperson
The right commercial leaderFractional CRO
If this is the problemDelivery cannot handle the new demand
The right commercial leaderFractional COO
If this is the problemUnit economics are unclear
The right commercial leaderFractional CFO
Our fractional services

The right commercial leader leads revenue growth: CMO, CRO, or both.

Revenue growth usually starts as a commercial leadership problem, but delivery and unit economics often decide the outcome.

Proven leadership

Revenue leaders from

Salesforce
HubSpot
Oracle
LinkedIn
Careem
Noon
Property Finder
Talabat
Common questions

The questions buyers ask first

If the problem is that nobody knows who you are or why you matter, start with a CMO. If the problem is that opportunities exist but do not convert, start with a CRO. If you are unsure, that is what the brief conversation is for.

Pipeline hygiene and pricing discipline usually show inside a quarter. Positioning and a rebuilt motion take longer to show in revenue and are worth more when they do.

Yes, and it is one of the most common briefs. We match operators who have made that specific move and know which parts of your commercial model to keep and which to rebuild.

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Tell us where revenue has stalled.

We will diagnose the commercial gap — positioning, pipeline, forecasting or delivery — and match the right senior operator to own it, backed by our collective of 350+ vetted leaders.

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