Jesus De Sousa

SENIOR MARKETING LEADER

I connect customer insight, marketing strategy and commercial priorities to turn complex challenges into action.

Customer strategy. Integrated marketing. Commercial growth.

PROFESSIONAL SNAPSHOT

I came into marketing through the business.

My career moved from frontline operations to business development, national sales leadership and senior marketing. That means I approach marketing with both a customer lens and a commercial one.

  1. Operations
  2. Business Development
  3. National Sales
  4. Senior Marketing
20+
Years professional experience
£55.2m
Incremental Travel Money transaction value
11,000
Student Hub visits in September 2024
MBA · CIM
MBA and CIM Chartered Marketer

BRANDS & PARTNERSHIPS

A selection of brands I have represented or partnered with across my career.

  • Post Office logo
  • Payzone logo
  • Royal Mail logo
  • Amazon logo
  • Evri logo
  • DPD logo
  • Western Union logo
  • One4all logo

SELECTED WORK

Strategy is only useful when it creates movement.

Four examples of customer strategy, commercial growth, transformation and proposition development.

COMMERCIAL GROWTH

Turning Travel Money Recovery into Commercial Growth

A national commercial programme built to rebuild Travel Money performance after major market disruption.

£55.2m

Incremental Travel Money transaction value

£500k incremental net trading income

View case study

CUSTOMER STRATEGY

Building and Scaling a Student Customer Strategy

One student strategy replacing separate product campaigns across digital, experiential, CRM and data capture.

11,000

Student Hub visits

4,935 campaign sign-ups and entries

View case study

TRANSFORMATION & LEADERSHIP

Leading a Salesforce Transformation from Business Case to Launch

Sales Cloud and Marketing Cloud delivered from investment case through MVP, UAT and training to launch.

END-TO-END

Programme delivered from business case to launch

Business Case → MVP → Implementation → Launch

View case study

What I bring to the table.

01

Customer & Strategy

Customer insight → segmentation → integrated marketing

Finding where customer need and commercial opportunity meet and creating a clear strategy across channels.

02

Commercial & Proposition

Commercial thinking → proposition → GTM

Connecting marketing decisions to measurable business value and turning ideas into viable customer propositions.

03

Leadership & Transformation

Stakeholders → change → delivery

Creating clarity, alignment and momentum across teams, agencies, partners and complex programmes.

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

“He leads with clarity, creates alignment quickly, and brings teams with him in a genuine, human way.

He already operates at a level well beyond his title, with the breadth of thinking you’d expect from a senior leader.”

Frankie McCroneFractional CMO · Marketing Strategy Consultant

LET’S CONNECT

Let’s talk about what I could bring to your team.

I’m currently exploring senior marketing leadership opportunities where marketing has a meaningful role in shaping customer strategy, commercial growth and the wider business.

London, UK