Re-Leased Case Study
Re-Leased - Delivering immediate sales growth through interim sales leadership.
How Re-Leased’s Interim VP of Sales, placed through Scalewise, rebuilt sales recruitment, remapped territories and coached up the existing sales team in one sales cycle.
Property Management Software
Interim & Fractional Leadership, Sales
Founded in New Zealand in 2013, Re-Leased is a cloud-based commercial property management software that helps thousands of landlords, agents and funds manage property portfolios and leases across the world. Re-Leased employs 150 people across five offices and has 1,000+ global customers across commercial, industrial, office, retail and mixed assets.
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Series B
Re-Leased Need
After a promising first half of the 2021-2022 financial year, Re-Leased faced the triple challenge of a departing global head of sales, a time-consuming financing round and the first wave of the Omicron variant in the second half of the year.
Re-Leased decided to hire a full-time CRO with global and regional experience while also transitioning a high-performing sales rep into sales leadership. Re-Leased’s CEO Tom Wallace and CFO Sam Caulton were planning to oversee the revenue function during the CRO search, but their attention was soon diverted by the financing round. This left a gap in revenue leadership across the business, but especially in EMEA, which is Re-Leased’s largest market with over 400 customers and 40 employees.
Scalewise Impact
Re-Leased’s CRO search proved harder than first thought and after a few false starts, Re-Leased’s leadership convinced the board to hire an interim sales leader to support in EMEA.
Within 3-4 weeks of reaching out to Scalewise, Re-Leased had seasoned commercial leader Jeremy Radcliffe in place. Knowing what support they wanted, Re-Leased tasked Jeremy with addressing three crucial sales issues: rebuilding recruitment, remapping sales territories and coaching up the existing sales team. Working 4-5 days per week, Jeremy had an immediate impact in the following ways:
1. Focused results
Instead of taking on every aspect of a full-time VP of Sales role, Jeremy focused on the three core tasks. Within one full sales cycle, not only had Jeremy achieved everything that Re-Leased requested – recruited well, territories mapped out, engaged the team – but he also got the sales process working effectively again. As such, sales returned to the desired growth trajectory in under a quarter and, with results improving week by week, Re-Leased closed the quarter higher than their most optimistic expectations when Jeremy joined.
2. Developed internal skills
Before hiring Jeremy, Re-Leased had high-performing sales reps that were adept at building sales methodologies and account lists. However, the sales reps lacked a great CRO above them to help hone their skill sets. Jeremy worked with the team of sales reps, developing their existing sales skills and teaching new ones. For example, Re-Leased works in an industry where it is difficult to find information on prospects and map new territories. Jeremy taught the sales reps how to assess the market and come up with new solutions to prospect-mapping.
3. Risk-free CRO recruitment
Re-Leased thought that hiring a CRO might take four months and aimed to carry on their recruitment drive while Jeremy was in place. Not only did this improve results during the search time, but Re-Leased were able to take their time to find the perfect CRO instead of rushing the decision. In addition, thanks to the flexible nature of interim work, Re-Leased was able to extend Jeremy’s contract beyond the new CRO’s start date to support a seamless transition.
4. Removed pressure
Re-Leased’s CEO and CFO decided to take on responsibility for the revenue function alongside their other roles while they searched for a CRO. However, a drawn-out funding round pulled their focus in many directions and increased the time pressure and strain on the leadership team. Hiring Jeremy allowed the leadership team to offload that pressure, finalise the funding round and free up their time to focus on driving other parts of the business forward.
“We just assumed a fractional leader couldn’t create change in three months, but we’ve been proven wrong. We asked for three things to solve and he went and solved them: doing what a great full-time VP would do, but even quicker. For an immediate impact like that, I would pay for an interim leader time and time again.”
Sam Caulton
CFO Re-Leased
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