Sean Wilson has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience, including all core business functions of aquiring, retaining and growing customers, revenue and profits.
He has proven skills in direct selling and marketing (B2B, B2G, B2C, etc), as well as creating sales and marketing strategies, and leading sales and marketing teams to drive high-performance cultures and consistent revenue growth across local, regional and national markets.
He has proven expertise in scaling businesses, building powerful sales pipelines and closing multi-million dollar deals.
Awards & Honours for Business Growth, Sales & Sales Management
Commendation for Growth (Sales & Profit), Zonda Care
Commendation for Growth (Sales & Profit), Zonda Global
Commendation for Growth ($m+), Kolling Foundation Board of Directors
Commendation for Growth (10,000+ new members), HIA
CEO Club Award (Record Sales), Sensis x multiple years
Pinnacle Award for National Service Excellence, Sensis
National Sales Person Award ($m+ sale) - Sensis
No. 1 Sales Award - 231% to target, Sensis
No. 1 Sales Award - 366% to target, Sensis
And more.
Sales Expertise
Sales Leadership: Directed sales teams of 300+ across 20+ locations. Managed $85M+ P&Ls, consistently exceeded targets, and broke sales records in B2B, B2C, and B2G markets.
Strategic Sales & Marketing: Designed and executed integrated sales and marketing strategies that drove top-line growth, improved customer acquisition and retention, and expanded market share.
Business Development & Deal-Making: Built and maintained strategic partnerships, negotiated and closed high-value deals ($1M+), and led M&A initiatives across various sectors.
Performance Coaching: Rebuilt underperforming sales teams, implemented high-impact sales processes, and mentored team members into top performers.
Sales Leadership Expertise
At The Housing Industry Association, he successfully led a national team of 200+ people across 23 offices and all states/territories. To achieve record membership growth after years of decline. Including membership managers in each region, retail staff in most offices, call centre staff in the national member service centre in Sydney, staff in Home Ideas Centres, marketing, publications, events, etc.
At Zonda Global and Zonda Care, he successfully led a national team of 300+ people across several companies and all states/territories. To transform declining customers and losses into growth and profits. Zonda Global, supporting healthcare facilities across Australia with staffing solutions (hospitals, aged care, etc). Zonda Care, supporting people living with disabilities. Venturely, supporting clients with managed services HR, IT, marketing, sales, etc). And more (Marine Seven national dealerships, etc).
At Sensis, he successfully led a national team including call centre, account managers and key account managers. With responsibility for 5000+ business & government accounts up to $1.5m+ each (Visa, Hyundai, Mirvac, Sonic Healthcare, Defence, Parliamentarians, Human Services, Centrelink, US Embassy, etc).
At ColorTile, he successfully led the sales and marketing team to drive business growth across retail showrooms, trade customers, project builder partners and major projects division. Working closely with the Managing Director, Sean helped the company during a period of significant growth including servicing thousands of retail customers with tile and bathroom solutions and major property developers with some of Australia's largest building projects (1 Bligh St Sydney, Hilton Hotel Gold Coast, Mercedes Showrooms, Honda Showrooms, etc).
C-Suite & Senior Management Expertise
Boards, Advisory Boards Expertise
Business Coaching & Consulting Expertise