The managed model
finally reaches marketing.

The first global Managed Marketing Service Provider (MMSP)

Whether you need a whole function, a strategic head, extra capacity, or specialist cover, we bring experienced marketing people, embedded in your business, scaled to exactly what the moment needs.

The precedent

Every other function already works this way.

The managed service model is already embedded across modern business. It gives organisations access to the people, capability and expertise they need, without having to build everything in-house.

For enterprise organisations, that can mean delivering an entire function through a managed service, or creating a hybrid model that combines internal teams with external capacity and capability.

Now, marketing works the same way.

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How it works

One flexible model. Two ways to use it.

The Marketing Room (TMR) can extend your existing marketing function, or become it outright.  Same experienced team, same operating model - two ways to deploy it.

SUPPORT YOUR MARKETING FUNCTION

YOU LEAD

Your Marketing Leader + Existing Internal Team

TMR EXTENDS YOUR TEAM

  • Additional capacity
  • Specialist capability
  • Projects & transformation
  • Leave & peak periods

BE YOUR MARKETING FUNCTION

WE LEAD

TMR Marketing Leader + TMR Marketing Team

TMR BUILDS + DELIVERS

  • Strategy & leadership
  • Marketing execution
  • Specialist capability
  • Complete marketing function

POWERED BY THE TMR MODEL

  • Experienced marketers
  • Flexible & scalable
  • AI-enabled
  • Embedded or remote
  • Offshore capability
  • Specialist partners

No additional headcount Fast deployment One trusted partner

What changes

What a managed model fixes.

The trade-off used to be binary: build a team you can't flex, or brief an agency that never gets inside your business. A Managed Marketing Service Provider (MMSP) collapses that choice, and takes the cost off your books.

Off your fixed-cost P&L

Experienced capability delivered as a managed service, not a salaried department, so it sits off your fixed overhead and scales with what you actually use.

Leaner and more agile

A smaller permanent footprint, with capacity that flexes up for a launch and back down between peaks. No redundancy cycle, no idle headcount.

Embedded, not at arm's length

Experienced people who work inside your business and own the outcome: the closeness of an in-house team with the flexibility of a service.

Accountable by design

A defined operating model and experienced oversight, so you get output and judgement from day one, not a bench of freelancers to manage yourself.

Leaner.More agile.More efficient.More productive.
The economics

The cost of capability you only need part of the time.

The case for a managed model isn't only operational: it's financial. Modern marketing needs specialists across paid media, CRM, analytics and creative, but rarely all of them, all year. A fixed team means paying for that capability in full, whether the work is there or not, and the numbers on how that capability actually gets used are sobering.

~29%
of a knowledge worker's week goes to the skilled work they were hired for. The rest disappears into meetings, admin and coordination.
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58%
is lost to “work about work”: status updates, chasing information and switching between tools.
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~70%
is a realistic ceiling for productive utilisation, even when well managed. Below ~60%, a salaried seat is losing money on payroll.
Industry utilisation benchmarks
$50k+
The entry and exits for a senior employee with the business for 2 years.
Industry recruitment and redundancy cost benchmarks
What's inside

One team, composed to the brief.

An MMSP isn't a fixed roster you're stuck with. It's the right capability assembled for the work in front of you, and recomposed as that work changes. Most of the time that's our own experienced people. When the brief calls for more, we bring it in, so you have access to everything the work needs, and never pay to carry what it doesn't.

  • 01Our people
  • 02Fractional capability
  • 03AI tools
  • 04Offshore resourcing

The right mix

scoped to your outcome

One engagement · One experienced lead · One operating system

Whatever the mix, it's always experienced-led.

Every combination is directed by experienced marketers and experienced management. You get access to all the capability the work requires, whether our people, fractional capability, AI tools or offshore where it fits, with someone experienced owning the outcome end to end.

The how

Delivered by our Open Marketing Model.

Naming the model is one thing; delivering it consistently is another. The Open Marketing Model (OMM) is the operating system that makes an MMSP repeatable: the eight pillars that turn experienced, flexible capability into outcomes you can rely on.

Tahnee Sharp presenting the Open Marketing Model on a meeting-room screen
02 · The eight pillars

Eight pillars. One connected system.

Each one addresses a familiar gap in the way marketing delivery usually gets resourced, and together they give your marketing a delivery capability that's experienced, consistent and accountable for outcomes.

01

Experienced, embedded in your team

Every person on an engagement carries 10+ years of experience, working inside your business and under your brand as part of your team. Experienced judgment your team can lean on, with full access to the context that shapes great marketing.

02

Diagnostic audit

Every engagement opens with a structured diagnostic of your marketing, covering what's working, where value is leaking and where the fastest gains sit, so delivery is built on evidence, not assumptions.

03

The brand code

A structured knowledge base built at the outset, encoding your strategy, customers and rules. Every output is measured against it, and it belongs to you.

04

AI-integrated delivery

Proprietary AI systems built into delivery, directed by experienced people and your brand code, giving speed and scale without losing coherence.

05

Proven delivery frameworks

Structured frameworks refined across 130+ professionals in five markets, so quality is consistent whoever leads the engagement, with none of the reinvention overhead.

06

Training & development

We invest in our people continuously, with structured, ongoing development that keeps every professional at the top of their game on platforms, tools and strategy. It's how we attract and keep the best people, and how your marketing stays sharp rather than going stale.

07

Global network & partnerships

130+ specialists with deep experience across five markets bring local intelligence and global buying power to every engagement.

08

Experienced leadership oversight

Experienced marketing leadership keeps every engagement aligned to your strategy, on-brand and commercially connected at all times.

The delivery system is ours to run. The strategy, the results and the brand code stay yours.

The Open Marketing Model™ principle

The option you've been looking for.

Whether you need a whole function, a strategic head, extra capacity, or specialist cover, we bring experienced marketing people, embedded in your business, scaled to exactly what the moment needs.