Skip to content Senior, accountable leadership for a commercial function. Embedded, owning delivery, carrying the number. VP/SVP-level interim engagements during a gap, restructure, or transformation.
A serious executive risk moment. Four typical triggers where an empty seat costs more than an embedded interim.
You have a leadership gap in a commercial function you cannot leave open. Sales Operations, Enablement, Commercial Excellence, Sales Transformation. The cost of an empty seat is higher than the cost of an interim.
A transformation programme needs senior accountability inside the business, not external advisory.
A permanent senior hire is in flight but recruitment will take six to twelve months and the function cannot drift in the meantime.
A function is being built from scratch and needs senior leadership to design it, mobilise it, and hand it over.
We provide senior, accountable leadership for the function itself. Not advisory across a fence. Our team steps in as Interim VP, SVP, or Director, embedded in your organisation, owning the function and its outcomes.
We have held these roles ourselves, end-to-end, at scale. We know what good looks like from the inside.
Operating Structure
Embedded
Four practitioner-led shapes. Each is a full accountable seat inside your organization, not an advisory brief. Selection follows the diagnostic.
Interim VP / SVP of sales operations
Own the function while a permanent hire is recruited. Design or redesign it if the function itself is not fit for purpose.
Interim VP / SVP of sales enablement
Own the function, lead a platform implementation, build or rebuild the Centres of Excellence (Plays and Pipeline Creation, Academy, Content, Engagement).
Interim VP / SVP of sales transformation
Own a transformation programme end-to-end with full executive accountability.
Interim commercial excellence leadership
Own the function during a restructure, integration, or significant strategic shift.
A frequent shape of interim leadership. We build the function, run it, and transition it cleanly to permanent leadership when they are ready. Typically nine to eighteen months.
This protects the organisation through the gap and ensures the permanent leader inherits something that works, not something they have to first fix.
Engagement Arc
9–18 Months
Build
Design, mobilise, and stand up the function.
Run
Own delivery and carry the number in-role.
Transition
Hand over a working function to the permanent leader.
Four reasons this differs from advisory, from staffing, and from generalist consulting.
At scale, across regions, in single-global and federated regional operating models. Not as consultants advising on what good looks like, but as the accountable executive.
No junior consultant carrying a senior title.
The model and its delivery frameworks are put to work inside the function. You get the IP as well as the leadership capacity.
We build, embed, and hand over. We do not become an institutional dependency.
Entry point. Assesses the whole system. Scores the commercial organisation across all six pillars and surfaces what to address first.
What COMPOSE is. The six interconnected components of a high performing sales organisation. Each coloured segment represents one pillar.
How we deliver. PERFORM, PACE, and RISE. Each anchored against a different layer of the commercial system, shown in the outer ring.
The Diagnostic shows whether the work is focused, multi-pillar, or requires senior interim leadership inside the business.
A practitioner-led sales transformation practice anchored on the COMPOSE Sales Model®.
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