Fractional marketing leadership for businesses that need it now, not after a six‑month search.

15+ years fixing broken tracking, attribution and performance marketing for FMCG, telecoms, healthcare and hospitality brands — and eleven years running fractional and interim engagements myself.

Faisal Mahmud, Fractional Marketing Director

£75M+

Marketing budget managed
Mars

583%

Conversion rate lift
Bupa Global

1% → 20%

Share of a £2bn portfolio
Tata Communications

11 yrs

Independent fractional
& interim consulting

Worked with

How I work

Interim marketing leadership

Stepping in during a transition or a gap, without waiting on a lengthy permanent search.

Digital strategy & performance fixes

When campaigns are underperforming and nobody is quite sure why.

Tracking, data & attribution

When the dashboard nobody trusts has become the real problem to solve.

Team & agency management

Holding agencies accountable to efficiency targets, not just activity.

When to bring me in

You have a leadership gap

A marketing director has left, or you've never had one, and you need senior ownership now — not after a six-month search.

Book a free 20-min diagnostic call

Your tracking is broken across markets

Different brands, markets or platforms report differently, and nobody fully trusts the topline number anymore.

Get the free tracking health-check

Your agencies aren't being held accountable

Spend is going out every month, but nobody can prove which pound is actually earning its place.

Book a free 20-min diagnostic call

You need interim ownership of a real budget

Anywhere from £2M to £75M+ needs a senior owner today, with the option to move to permanent later if it's the right fit.

Book a free 20-min diagnostic call

You're an early-stage founder finding your footing

Pricing, product focus, stock discipline, brand consistency — the fundamentals that are easy to get wrong early, and expensive to fix later.

See how I help early-stage founders

Selected engagements

Mars

Interim Performance Marketing Ops Director, 2021 to 2022

Mars needed one person owning performance marketing across 13 brands and 4 European markets, with a 15-person team spread across four countries and a £75M+ budget. I rebuilt the campaign taxonomy and tracking framework so spend could be compared properly across markets for the first time, then used that visibility to reallocate budget toward what was actually working.

75%+

year-on-year efficiency gain

Tata Communications

Associate Director, Performance Marketing & Media Planning, 2017 to 2019

Digital was 1% of Tata Communications' £2bn sales and marketing contribution when I joined — treated as an experiment, not a channel. I rebuilt the strategy, the team, and the measurement behind it. Two years later digital's contribution had grown to 20% of the portfolio, on only 100% budget growth: a 20x revenue outcome on 2x spend. The work also won a 2018 ITSMA Global Award for automated ABM campaigns.

£450K → £9M

digital contribution, in two years

Bupa Global

Lead, Digital Acquisition & Performance Marketing, 2015 to 2016

Bupa's acquisition funnel was leaking value somewhere between click and conversion, and nobody could say exactly where. I ran structured multivariate testing across the landing pages and funnel until I found it, then fixed it.

1.2% → 7%

conversion rate, £10.4M revenue delivered

Pako Taco

Founder & Operator, 2023 to 2025

The fastest way to understand a client's problems is to have lived them yourself. Running Pako Taco — a Pakistani-Mexican fusion food brand from concept to multi-venue, award-winning operation — meant owning pricing, stock efficiency, brand consistency, customer acquisition and P&L with no agency and no budget to waste. Every hospitality and early-stage client conversation I have now starts from that experience, not a framework.

Winner

Best Modern Taco, Tacover Awards 2025

Read the full case studies — challenge, solution, result for all eight engagements

About

Based in Alicante, Spain. I work remotely, with regular travel to the UK and Europe for in-person work. Fractional and interim marketing leadership since 2015, across FMCG, telecoms, healthcare, SaaS, D2C and hospitality — most recently at Mars, Tata Communications, Bupa Global and Royal Mail.

Let's talk

What happens on the diagnostic call

  1. You describe the situation — what's working, what isn't, and what you've already tried.
  2. I ask the questions you haven't been asked — usually about tracking, attribution, agency accountability, or ownership gaps.
  3. We agree whether there's a useful next step — no sales pitch, no follow-up pressure. If there's a fit, I'll say so plainly.

I allow 30 minutes in the diary in case we need longer than 20.