Project Management

Sean Wilson has a strong background in project management, including planning, organizing, and executing tasks to achieve agreed outcomes within defined constraints like scope, time, and budget.

He's managed hundreds of projects across small, medium and large organisations, across many industries. With a strong focus on commercial, human resources, and technology related projects.

Proven Project Management Expertise

At BetterHR he successfully managed over 100 projects over a span of 10 years (2013-2024).

As CEO and COO he led enterprise-level program/project initiatives that materially affected strategy, capital allocation, risk, operating model, and market position.

• Enterprise strategy development and multi-year strategic reset

• Mergers, acquisitions, divestments and post-merger integration

• Operating model redesign and organisational restructuring

• Digital and technology transformation programs

• Revenue growth, market expansion and commercial optimisation

• Cost transformation and margin improvement initiatives

• Culture, leadership and performance management transformation

• Risk, governance and regulatory remediation programs

• Capital raising, refinancing and financial restructuring

• Enterprise performance systems and execution discipline frameworks

As Chief Technology and Product Officer he led program/project initiatives related to:

• Enterprise technology strategy aligned to commercial and product roadmap

• Product vision, portfolio strategy and lifecycle management

• Platform architecture redesign and technical debt remediation

• Major system implementations (ERP, CRM, core platform rebuild)

• Cloud migration and infrastructure modernisation

• Data strategy, analytics capability and AI enablement

• Cybersecurity uplift and information security governance

• DevOps transformation and engineering velocity optimisation

• Customer experience and UX/UI redesign programs

• Technology team build-out, capability uplift and vendor ecosystem optimisation

As head of product, he ensured a systematic approach to ensure that over 50 projects were completed effectively, efficiently, and successfully. Including:

1. Complete redesign and rebuild to improve stability, speed, and structure for scalability/growth. 

2. Integrated white labelling, etc.

3. Over 100 new features (eg. Integrated white-labelling, Compliance Register, Activity Tracker, Company Records, 10 new Personnel File tabs, more HR processes, more document templates, Dashboard HR news, etc).

4. Brand refresh (Parent and child logos, website, etc)

5. Added 2 new subscription levels (HR Lite & HR Platinum) + Optional ‘At Cost’ Services (Phase 1 – HR Shop).

6. New Compliance Register.

7.  New Value Tracker – showing value users get from their subscription

8. New Company Files – for improved records management.

9. New Documents Library – for letters, forms, policies, etc.

10. Updated Personnel Files – with over 10 new tabs.

11. Updated HR Records Management.

12. Updated Law Guides.

13. Updated Contract Wizard.

14. Updated Notes.

15. Updated Alerts.

16. Updated Users Management.

17. Rebrand: Changed ‘ER Expertise’ to ‘HR Advice Online/HR Advice Hotline’.

18. Launched new advice forms: Modern Award Coverage, Pay Rate Enquiries, etc (HR Essential & HR Professional).

19. Launched new service for key advisors (HR Advice Online for Clients).

20. Started automating customer care (NetSuite Case Management, Renewal Reminder Notices, etc).

21. New HR Advice Online Service for Key Advisors.

22. Case Automation (Customer Care, HR Advice, HR Consulting & Sales).

23. New Safety Section.

24. Step by step safety processes (5).

25. New safety registers (4).

26. Safety Document Templates.

27. MAJOR CONTENT REBUILD.

28. Complete rewrite of processes. Move from simple linear processes to dynamic flowcharts.

29. Further automation of advice services to improve efficiency & reduce costs.

30. Added over 30 new step by step HR Process Flowcharts with links to relevant HR tools and advice.

31. New Dynamic HR Process Flowcharts.

32. New Risk Meter (Live reading on dashboard).

33. New Risk Meter – Compliance Register.

34. New Risk Meter – Personnel Files.

35. New Menus - for improved navigation.

36. Launched ‘HR On-Demand: Pay-As-You-Go Service’ (Phase 2 of HR Shop).

37. Improved value of HR Platinum subscription by adding ‘Outsourced HR Services’.

38. HR Registers.

39. Timesheets Register.

40. New ‘Employee HR Portal’ added.

41. Self-service features for employees.

42. Employee Portal Access Management.

43. Complete redesign and rebuild to improve user experience across new devices (eg. laptop, mobile, tablet).

44. New Personnel Files.

45. New Personnel Files – Personal Details.

46. New Personnel Files – HR Best Practice & Compliance.

47. New Personnel Files – Job Details.

48. New Personnel Files – Payroll > Pay Rates.

49. New Personnel Files – Records > Files Uploaded.

50. New Personnel Files – Right to Work Checks.

51. New Personnel Files – Performance Management.

52. New Personnel Files – Activity History.

53. New Dashboard (Employee HR Portal).

54. New Dashboard (HR Advice Online).

55. Moved to new servers to improve speed, systems/data integrity and achieve cost efficiencies.

56. New Import / Export Data Wizard .

57. New People Files Register LONG (Export > update > import).

58. Improved HR Registers (Timesheets, Leave, Police Checks).

59. New dynamic Letters Wizard.

60. Improved HR Registers (Right to Work, Performance, etc).

61. New Roster Register (Interactive calendar view of timesheets and leave).

62. Admin upgrade to improve controls and meet new payroll compliance law changes.

63. New payroll features (Updated personnel files, etc).

64. New payroll registers.

65. New pay-runs for wages, salaries, allowances.

66. New admin controls: Payroll Access.

67. New mobile app for employees – Apple.

68. New mobile app for employees – Android.

69. New Tasks Management.

70. New Covid (now Disasters Toolkit) section.

71. Rebranded to BetterHR.

72. New employee vaccination tracker.

73. Security Improvements – Updated all code.

74. Added 2-factor authentication.

75. New Job Vacancies Register.

76. New Jobs Display (like Seek).

77. Job Application Form.

78. Job Applications Register.

Sean has also demonstrated his strong background in leading and managing programs/projects across many other CEO and group executive roles.