United Kingdom · Corporate Strategy · Lead (8-12 years)

Lead Market Expansion Manager

Here is the whole job, in plain words. What it is, a real day, what you decide, how you're judged, how people get here and where they go next. Then the part no course gives you: twelve AI tutors who learn your work.

Experience bandLead (8-12 years)
Direct reports3-8 reports
Reports toDirector, Market Expansion
UK framework levelUsually a manager, or the deepest specialist in a team

Also advertised as Principal Strategy Manager · Head of New Markets Strategy · Senior Manager, Corporate Development

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1What this role really is

You'll be the person who figures out where we should go next, not just in terms of geography, but also new products or customer segments. This role is about finding the next big growth opportunity for the company, then building the rock-solid plan to get us there. It's a blend of deep analysis, strategic thinking, and a fair bit of convincing people across the business to get on board with your vision.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

PitchBook / CB Insights / Statista ProAdvanced

Independently building complex queries, screening for M&A targets, identifying emerging trends, and triangulating data across multiple market intelligence sources to validate hypotheses.

Microsoft Excel (Power Query, VBA)Expert

Building complex financial models from scratch, performing scenario/sensitivity analysis, using Power Query for ETL processes, and potentially using VBA for automation of routine tasks. You're auditing models, not just building simple ones.

Tableau / Power BIAdvanced

Designing and building complex, interactive dashboards from multiple raw data sources, using calculated fields and parameters to enable deep-dive analysis for executive reporting and GTM planning.

Anaplan / PigmentIntermediate

Navigating financial models built by the FP&A team, inputting strategic assumptions for new market scenarios, and understanding the logic of the P&L forecasts to ensure alignment with your business cases.

Asana / Jira / ConfluenceAdvanced

Building and managing the entire GTM project plan, including dependencies across functions (Sales, Marketing, Legal, Product), and authoring comprehensive GTM playbooks and strategic documentation.

Salesforce (Sales Cloud)Advanced

Using SOQL or advanced reporting to identify customer segments ripe for adjacent market entry, analysing pipeline data to forecast initial traction, and understanding how new markets will integrate into our CRM.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choice	Coming in	Where you are now	The step above
Market Entry Strategy & Scope	Supports by gathering data and preparing initial drafts, all reviewed by a Senior Strategist.	Proposes specific market entry strategies for a single market, with manager review and approval.	Designs and leads the development of market entry strategies for multiple markets, making recommendations to Director-level. Owns the strategic rationale.
Budget Allocation (Project Specific)	No authority. Escalates all budget requests to supervisor.	Can request budget for specific tools or data, typically up to £1K, with manager approval.	Manages project budgets up to £5K, making recommendations for larger spends to Director.
Team Hiring & Development	No direct involvement in hiring decisions.	May participate in interview panels for junior roles, providing feedback.	Leads interviews for junior roles, provides strong recommendations, and formally mentors 0-2 individuals.
External Vendor Selection (Market Intelligence/Research)	Identifies potential vendors based on requirements; no selection authority.	Evaluates 2-3 vendors based on predefined criteria, makes a recommendation to manager.	Selects vendors for specific project needs (up to £10K), manages relationships, and negotiates terms within established guidelines.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Business Case Approval Rate

The percentage of market expansion business cases you lead that get approved for funding and execution by our executive leadership team.

Target · >70% approval rate within 6 months of submission

If you submit 4 major market expansion proposals in a year, we'd expect at least 3 of them to get the green light. This shows your proposals are robust and convincing.

Year 1 Revenue Forecast Accuracy (for launched markets)

How close your initial Year 1 revenue projections for a new market are to the actual revenue generated once that market launches.

Target · Initial Year 1 revenue forecasts are within +/- 20% variance of actuals

If you predicted £5M in Year 1 revenue for a new market, and it actually hit £4.5M, that's a 10% variance – well within target. This shows you can predict market performance pretty well.

GTM Playbook Quality Score

A qualitative score given by execution teams (Sales, Marketing, Product) on the clarity, completeness, and usefulness of the Go-to-Market playbooks you create for new market entries.

Target · Average score of >8/10 from execution stakeholders

After launching in Germany, the Sales team lead says your playbook was 'invaluable for onboarding' and 'covered everything we needed'. That's an 8 or 9.

Portfolio of Opportunities Maintained

The number of high-potential market expansion opportunities you're actively researching and developing business cases for at any given time.

Target · Maintain an active pipeline of 2-3 significant market opportunities

You'll always have a few irons in the fire: maybe one deep dive into the Nordics, another exploring a new product vertical, and a third doing a quick scan of LatAm.

Strategic Influence & Credibility

Your ability to shape the thinking of senior leaders and cross-functional teams, getting them to buy into your strategic recommendations.

You'll be proactively invited to strategic planning sessions, senior VPs will seek your opinion before making big decisions, and your recommendations will often be adopted without significant pushback. People will trust your judgment and data.

Team Development & Mentorship

How effectively you guide and develop the analysts and strategists who report into you, helping them grow their skills and careers.

Your team members will show clear progression in their analytical and strategic capabilities. They'll consistently meet deadlines, deliver high-quality work, and report feeling supported and challenged. We'll see them taking on more complex tasks over time.

Proactive Risk Identification

Your knack for spotting potential pitfalls, regulatory hurdles, or competitive threats in new markets *before* they become major problems.

You'll regularly present 'what if' scenarios and contingency plans to leadership, highlighting risks that others might have missed. Your market entry plans will always include a clear section on mitigation strategies for identified risks.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

The ease with which you work with other departments, building strong relationships and getting everyone aligned on expansion plans.

Feedback from Product, Sales, and Finance teams will consistently highlight your collaborative approach. You'll be seen as someone who brings people together, not just dictates strategy. Projects will run smoothly across teams because you've got everyone on the same page.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy

Shaping the Company's Future

You'll be directly involved in decisions that determine where the company invests its capital and resources for years to come. Your work isn't just theoretical; it leads to concrete, large-scale business initiatives.

Seeing a new market you championed go from a concept in a deck to a thriving business unit with hundreds of employees.

Solving Complex, Ambiguous Problems

Every new market is a fresh puzzle with unique challenges – incomplete data, different regulatory landscapes, new competitive dynamics. You'll thrive on digging into these unknowns and finding a clear path forward.

Successfully building a defensible market entry strategy for a region where reliable public data is scarce, by creatively using proxy data and expert interviews.

Influencing Senior Leadership

You'll regularly present your findings and recommendations directly to the C-suite and VPs. Your ability to articulate a clear, data-backed vision will be key to getting buy-in for major strategic bets.

Getting the CEO to pivot their initial thinking on a new market after you present a compelling alternative based on your deep analysis.

What frustrates people

The 'Analysis Paralysis' Loop: Spending weeks on a bulletproof business case, only for stakeholders to demand 'one more data point,' delaying a decision indefinitely.
The Strategy/Execution Gap: Pouring your soul into a brilliant GTM playbook that a regional team then largely ignores, 'doing what they've always done'.
Political Turf Wars: Your data-driven recommendation to enter Market A gets blocked by a powerful VP who sees it as a threat to their own budget or headcount.
The Data Desert: The absolutely critical data you need to validate a hypothesis is either non-existent, unreliable, or behind a £50,000 market research report we won't pay for.
HiPPO Wins: Your meticulously researched recommendation is overruled by the 'Highest Paid Person's Opinion' based on an anecdote they heard at a conference.
Accountability Without Authority: Being held responsible for Year 2 revenue targets in a market you launched, long after you've moved on and have no control over the execution.

What this role does not give you

A predictable, routine work schedule with minimal interruptions.
Direct, day-to-day operational management of a business unit.
Guaranteed implementation of every strategic recommendation you make.
A role where you only interact with data and don't need to 'sell' your ideas.

6Who you work with

This role directly shapes the company's growth trajectory by identifying and validating new revenue streams. You'll influence multi-million pound investment decisions and define the strategic direction for entire business units. Get it right, and you're a hero. Get it wrong, and it's a very expensive lesson.

Inside the business

VP of Product
VP of Sales
CFO and Finance Leadership
Head of Legal
Regional General Managers

Outside the business

Market Research Agencies
Industry Analysts
Potential Acquisition Targets (occasionally)
Strategic Partners

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

Proven track record of leading complex strategic projects from conception to executive recommendation.
Demonstrable experience building and defending multi-year financial models for new business initiatives (e.g., new product launches, market entries).
Experience managing and mentoring junior team members, with a focus on their analytical development.
Strong ability to influence senior stakeholders (VP level and above) through data-driven insights and compelling narratives.
Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth technology or FinTech environment, or equivalent experience in a top-tier consulting firm.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Advanced Econometric Modelling for Market Forecasting

Moving beyond simple linear regressions. As markets become more complex and interconnected, robust econometric models will be needed to accurately predict market size, growth, and our potential share, especially when considering macro-economic factors and multiple variables.

Time Series Analysis (ARIMA, Prophet) · Causal Inference & A/B Testing Design · Scenario Planning with Monte Carlo Simulations

This quarter: Take an advanced course on econometrics or time series forecasting (e.g., through a university extension programme or online platform).
Next quarter: Apply a more sophisticated forecasting model to one of your current market expansion opportunities.
Month 6: Present the results, comparing the new model's insights with previous, simpler approaches, highlighting the added value.
Ongoing: Read academic papers and industry reports on advanced forecasting techniques relevant to our sector.

Quick win: Start experimenting with Python libraries like `statsmodels` or `Prophet` for basic time series analysis on publicly available market data. Even small improvements in forecast accuracy can have big impacts.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up

Regularly attend industry conferences and webinars focused on market trends, competitive intelligence, and strategic growth in our sector.
Subscribe to leading business publications (e.g., Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly) to stay current on strategic frameworks and best practices.
Actively seek out opportunities to mentor junior colleagues, as teaching often solidifies your own understanding and leadership skills.
Participate in internal company-wide strategy sessions or hackathons to broaden your perspective beyond market expansion.
Continuously learn new analytical tools and programming languages (e.g., Python for data analysis) to enhance your technical capabilities.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: Advanced Prompt Engineering & LLM Strategy

Competitors are already using powerful AI models to draft market reports, summarise complex regulations, and identify customer insights in a fraction of the time. Analysts who master this will outproduce peers significantly. Your value will shift to knowing *what* to ask and *how* to validate the answers.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Advanced Prompt Engineering & LLM Strategy

Competitors are already using powerful AI models to draft market reports, summarise complex regulations, and identify customer insights in a fraction of the time. Analysts who master this will outproduce peers significantly. Your value will shift to knowing *what* to ask and *how* to validate the answers.

Context Windows & Token Limits
RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) Architectures
Output Validation & Hallucination Detection
Prompt Chaining & Agentic Workflows

Geo-Spatial Data Analysis

As we expand globally, understanding customer density, infrastructure, and competitive presence at a granular geographical level becomes critical. Simple country-level analysis isn't enough anymore; we need to see where our 'beachheads' truly are.

GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Basics
Mapping Tools (e.g., QGIS, ArcGIS Online)
Location Intelligence Data Sources
Spatial Clustering & Hotspot Analysis

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

TAM/SAM/SOM Sizing
Competitive Intelligence & Moat Analysis
Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy & Execution Planning
Business Case & Financial Modeling
Regulatory & Geopolitical Risk Assessment
Customer Segmentation & Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) Definition

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

1
Senior Market Expansion Strategist (Internal Promotion)
3-5 years as a Senior Strategist
Skills to master
- Leading end-to-end market evaluations, mentoring junior team members, presenting to Directors, and managing complex project timelines.
You're ready to move on when
- Consistently delivering high-quality, approved business cases for single market entries.
- Demonstrating strong leadership potential by effectively guiding junior colleagues.
- Proactively identifying and solving strategic problems without constant oversight.
- Building strong relationships and credibility with cross-functional leads.
2
Management Consultant (Top-Tier Firm)
4-7 years post-MBA or 8-10 years post-undergrad at a firm like McKinsey, Bain, BCG, or similar.
Skills to master
- Structured problem-solving, client management, executive communication, and deep analytical rigour across various industries.
You're ready to move on when
- Successfully led multiple strategic projects for clients, with demonstrable impact.
- Experience building and presenting compelling business cases to C-suite clients.
- Strong track record of managing project teams and developing junior consultants.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid learning across new domains.
3
Corporate Development / M&A Manager
5-8 years in a corporate development or M&A role, often with an investment banking background.
Skills to master
- Financial modelling for acquisitions, due diligence processes, deal structuring, and strategic rationale for inorganic growth.
You're ready to move on when
- Successfully identified, evaluated, and executed M&A transactions.
- Deep understanding of valuation methodologies and financial forecasting.
- Experience working with legal and finance teams on complex deal structures.
- Ability to integrate strategic rationale with financial outcomes.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your journey here is about becoming a true strategic leader. We're not just offering a job; we're offering a launchpad for a career where you'll genuinely shape the future of our business and, frankly, your own.

Pay & demand

Pay and demand for this role will appear here, each figure traced to a named authoritative source (e.g. the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, under the Open Government Licence). We don’t show numbers we can’t attribute.

The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Lead Market Expansion Manager is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

…and nine more, matched to you after your first chat. Meet all twelve

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13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Data AnalyticsLevel 5

Applied to your work in Lead Market Expansion Manager

The objective of this unit is to equip learners with the knowledge and skills to apply data analytics techniques in decision-making processes. Learners will be able to utilise descriptive, statistical, predictive, and prescriptive analytic methods to transform data into actionable insights, forecast future events, and determine optimal solutions for a given situation.

How the thinking builds

Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyse
Evaluate
Create

An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

DemonstrateIllustration

Evidenced on your work in Lead Market Expansion Manager

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

Business Case Approval RateThe percentage of market expansion business cases you lead that get approved for funding and execution by our executive leadership team.If you submit 4 major market expansion proposals in a year, we'd expect at least 3 of them to get the green light. This shows your proposals are robust and convincing.>70% approval rate within 6 months of submission
Year 1 Revenue Forecast Accuracy (for launched markets)How close your initial Year 1 revenue projections for a new market are to the actual revenue generated once that market launches.If you predicted £5M in Year 1 revenue for a new market, and it actually hit £4.5M, that's a 10% variance – well within target. This shows you can predict market performance pretty well.Initial Year 1 revenue forecasts are within +/- 20% variance of actuals
GTM Playbook Quality ScoreA qualitative score given by execution teams (Sales, Marketing, Product) on the clarity, completeness, and usefulness of the Go-to-Market playbooks you create for new market entries.After launching in Germany, the Sales team lead says your playbook was 'invaluable for onboarding' and 'covered everything we needed'. That's an 8 or 9.Average score of >8/10 from execution stakeholders
Portfolio of Opportunities MaintainedThe number of high-potential market expansion opportunities you're actively researching and developing business cases for at any given time.You'll always have a few irons in the fire: maybe one deep dive into the Nordics, another exploring a new product vertical, and a third doing a quick scan of LatAm.Maintain an active pipeline of 2-3 significant market opportunities

These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Lead Market Expansion Manager to Director, Market Expansion, and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 5 · in progressAI Fluency→ Director, Market Expansion→ your design

Where this takes you

Your journey here is about becoming a true strategic leader. We're not just offering a job; we're offering a launchpad for a career where you'll genuinely shape the future of our business and, frankly, your own.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration

Lead Market Expansion Manager

TAM/SAM/SOM Sizing
Competitive Intelligence & Moat Analysis
Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy & Execution Planning
Business Case & Financial Modeling
Regulatory & Geopolitical Risk Assessment
Customer Segmentation & Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) Definition

This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Lead Market Expansion Manager is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

Director, Market Expansion
3-5 years in the Lead Market Expansion Manager role
From managing programs to directing the entire function and setting strategic priorities for the team.
- Strategic Planning Frameworks: Designing the annual strategic planning cycle for market expansion.
- Advanced Risk Management: Developing enterprise-level risk mitigation strategies for new markets.
- Talent Strategy: Attracting, developing, and retaining top strategy talent.

Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, a Lead Market Expansion Manager's day is packed. You're juggling deep analysis, team leadership, and high-stakes presentations. What if you could reclaim a significant chunk of your week? Our AI Productivity Hub isn't just buzzwords; it's packed with tools and guides to help you do just that.

Imagine cutting down the grunt work of market research, initial report drafting, and competitor monitoring. That's what AI can do for you. It's not about replacing your strategic brain; it's about giving you more time to use it where it truly matters – on the big, complex problems only you can solve.

Automated Competitor Monitoring

Use AI agents to continuously scrape and summarise competitor websites, press releases, job postings, and social media mentions. Get a weekly intelligence briefing delivered straight to your inbox, automating the manual 'what's new' research that used to take hours. You'll spot trends and threats faster than ever.

Accelerated Insight Generation

Feed thousands of customer reviews, support tickets, or forum posts from a target market into a Large Language Model (LLM). Ask it to identify the top 5 unmet needs, common complaints about existing solutions, or emerging customer segments. This slashes qualitative research time by at least 50%, giving you actionable insights in minutes, not days.

Rapid Regulatory Summarisation

Ingest dense, 100-page regulatory documents for a new country (think data privacy laws or labour regulations) into an LLM. Ask it to provide a summarised, bullet-point list of the key business implications and compliance requirements. This saves you and our Legal team 10-15 hours of tedious reading per market, letting you focus on the strategic implications.

First-Draft Narrative Creation

Provide an LLM with the key data points from your analysis – TAM size, competitor market share, projected revenue, key risks. Ask it to write the first draft of your executive summary, the narrative for a PowerPoint presentation, or even initial email communications. You'll then refine it, saving you 2-4 hours per business case and getting to a polished draft much faster.

Common questions

How do you become a Lead Market Expansion Manager?

Common routes in include Senior Market Expansion Strategist (Internal Promotion) (3-5 years as a Senior Strategist), Management Consultant (Top-Tier Firm) (4-7 years post-MBA or 8-10 years post-undergrad at a firm like McKinsey, Bain, BCG, or similar.) and Corporate Development / M&A Manager (5-8 years in a corporate development or M&A role, often with an investment banking background.). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Lead Market Expansion Manager progress to?

This role can lead on to Director, Market Expansion (3-5 years in the Lead Market Expansion Manager role), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Lead Market Expansion Manager in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 5 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Lead Market Expansion Manager?

Increasingly, Advanced Prompt Engineering & LLM Strategy and Geo-Spatial Data Analysis. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows a Lead Market Expansion Manager, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 1 national skill standard. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Lead Market Expansion Manager: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A Zavmo curriculum screen: a three-month plan of nine units, ninety credits, each one an Ofqual-regulated unit the learner can tick or untick before starting. — A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.

Start free No commitment. See your first steps free.

15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 5

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Corporate Strategy

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The strategic and analytical skills you'll hone in this role are highly transferable. You could move into other high-growth tech companies, private equity, venture capital, or even start your own venture. The ability to identify and capitalise on market opportunities is valuable everywhere.

Not sure this is the right direction?

Work out what you actually want from work first, then come back and see which roles fit it. Takes about ten minutes.

You're not behind. You're right on time. The shift is only just beginning. Your role won't look the same in two years. Be the one who leads the change, not the one it happens to. Build my plan, free Here's the first ten minutes: a 2-minute confidence check → your personalised roadmap → meet the tutors matched to you. No card, cancel any time. No card. Build your plan, see your roadmap and meet the twelve tutors matched to you. All free. When you're ready to start learning, it's £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.

Lead Market Expansion Manager

What's rising in its place

Advanced Prompt Engineering & LLM Strategy

Geo-Spatial Data Analysis

Skills this role draws on

Technical

How you actually get there, here

Senior Market Expansion Strategist (Internal Promotion)

Management Consultant (Top-Tier Firm)

Corporate Development / M&A Manager

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

Roles this leads to

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

A conversation, not a course

No two people run this the same way

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Your journey here is about becoming a true strategic leader. We're not just offering a job; we're offering a launchpad for a career where you'll genuinely shape the future of our business and, frankly, your own.

Everything else the record holds

The career path, and where it branches

Director, Market Expansion

Where AI is starting to help

Automated Competitor Monitoring

Accelerated Insight Generation

Rapid Regulatory Summarisation

First-Draft Narrative Creation

Common questions

You’ve started things before

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.