Strategy. Clarity.
Commercial focus.

Director-Level Marketing Leadership. Available now.

Method Marketing was founded by Stephanie Hughes, a senior marketing leader with nearly two decades of experience helping organisations grow their audiences, strengthen their brands and unlock commercial opportunity.

Stephanie has spent much of her career leading marketing functions during periods of significant change and transformation, bringing clarity, structure and commercial thinking to complex environments. Most recently as Director of Marketing at a Premier League Football Club, she led the marketing function through ownership acquisition and change and the club's move to a new waterfront stadium.

Previously, she held senior marketing leadership roles at businesses spanning racing, hospitality, events and leisure, where marketing had to continuously perform commercially across multiple brands and audiences simultaneously.

After years working inside large, commercially demanding organisations, Method. Marketing was created to bring that same strategic thinking to businesses and brands that need experienced marketing leadership but don't yet need, or can't yet justify a full-time hire.

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Most recently, Director of Marketing - Premier League Football Club

19 years marketing experience in sport, hospitality and leisure

CIM Professional Diploma in Marketing

Executive and board stakeholder engagement

Commercial marketing strategy

Brand development and transformation

Team leadership and capability building

Data driven marketing insight

Marketing investment and ROI

Director-level marketing leadership, without the Director-level hire.

Method. Marketing provides access to a CIM-qualified Marketing Director with 19 years' experience, someone who has led teams of 25, managed multi-million pound budgets and generated measurable revenue at the highest levels of sport and entertainment. On a fractional basis, at a fraction of the cost.

Proven at the highest level

Genuine Director-level credentials — Board-level reporting, ownership group presentations and strategic leadership at a Premier League club.

Commercially accountable

Every marketing decision has been made in a commercially scrutinised environment, with accountability to boards, ownership groups and senior leadership teams.

High-stakes transformation experience

Leading marketing through a Premier League stadium transition and ownership takeover — complexity that dwarfs most SME marketing challenges.

Data, CRM and platform depth

Implemented Braze, worked with Salesforce, built data science teams, led CRM migrations and built audience segmentation strategies at scale.