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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Recent Highlights
Current Role
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Leon Liveris

Hammondville,NSW

Summary

A results driven leader with an intimate understanding of strategy, highly motivated professional with a proven track record in driving customer focused capability, engagement, innovation & driving a culture of performance. Over 17 years of experience leading and managing successful sales and service divisions empowering staff, building collaborative culture, enabling exceptional customer service, business growth and retention. Experienced leader with demonstrated capability in developing, transforming and managing across all facets of an organisation in Financial Services and Insurance. Skilled in all areas of people Management, Customer Experience, Growth, Retention Project and Change Management.

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience

Work History

Head of Retail Sales

HCF Australia
04.2016 - 04.2024
  • Overseeing and leading the Contact Centre phone, Web-Chat, Retail Sales, Corporate Sales Division, Sales Performance Coaches and Webchat function and Sales & Support Cordinators. Attribution of 23%, equating to $65M of annualised revenue and dilivering 21,000 new members to the funds growth annually.

Head of Call Centre Sales

HCF Australia
01.2014 - 01.2016

Call Centre Sales & Retention Manager

HCF Australia
01.2010 - 01.2014

Implemenation of contact centre retention operating model with an average save rate of 32% accross all retention campaigns.

Call Centre Sales & Retention Manager

Manchester Unity
01.2007 - 01.2010

Business Development Manager

Macquarie Radio Network (2GB & 2CH)
01.1996 - 01.1999

Education

Advanced Diploma in Business - Bussiness

AIM Training Institute
Sydney, NSW
02.2017

Marketing for Managers (Post Graduation) - Sales And Marketing Education

AIM
Sydney, NSW
01.2023

Lead Successful Change Management - Prosci - Change Management

Prosci
Sydney, NSW
06.2017

Coaching as a Leadership Style - Coaching Leaders

Coaching Australia
Sydney, NSW
10.2017

Tactical Leadership Coaching -

Grist

Executive Coaching Qualification - Executive Coaching

Coaching Australia
Sydney, NSW
01.2018

Accredited Culture Coach -

Human Synergistics

First Aid & CPR Training -

St John Ambulance

Mental Health First Aid -

St John Ambulance

Skills

  • Sales and upselling Strategy Implementation
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Strategic Planning
  • Retail Operations
  • Sales expertise and Revenue Growth
  • Employee and resource Performance Management
  • Sales Metrics Analysis
  • Sales Forecasting
  • Business development and planning

Recent Highlights

  • Overseeing and leading the Customer Call Centre phone & Web chat, Retail Sales, Corporate Sales Division, Sales Performance Coaches and Webchat functions
  • Developing a high performing leadership team ensuring Operational Excellence
  • 2019 Excellence in Leadership award winner
  • Implemented Operational Excellence program across Contact Centre supported by Coxswain Alliance
  • Achieve organisational and customer objectives and delivering performance against customer centric sales and service targets/KPI’s
  • Utilise metrics and analytics to make data-driven decisions that improve the customer experience
  • Drive short term and long-term resourcing needs of the CSC while reducing costs and maximise outcomes. productivity and effectiveness against budget requirements
  • Drive continual improvement through a robust Quality Framework to deliver best practice consistent and compliant service delivery
  • Developing & facilitating the organization’s first ever Leadership Induction for new and emerging leaders in the business
  • Creating a progressive Coaching, Training & Capability framework for the Branch Network & Contact Centre to drive performance uplift, engagement, accountability & efficiencies
  • Driving ‘Change Management’ for HCF change managers through the organisation’s largest ever core system transformation.

Current Role

HCF Australia, Head of Retail Sales, -, - Development of sales and service leadership capability across the retail branch network whilst supporting key member growth & retention initiatives, and projects across the fund, - Providing mentoring, coaching, training and development of Regional Managers, Sales Corporates Representatives and Sales & Performance Coaches, - Support and lead initiatives to drive member growth, - Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships across the fund to drive acquisition activities across of divisions of the organisation, - Create and lead initiatives across the branch network which align with HCF’s 2025 strategy of member centricity, - Leading improved member satisfaction and advocacy, - Driving strong engagement and a high performing culture, and facilitating change management, - Implementing strategies approved by the Chief Sales Officer to improve sales performance & conversion rates, - Manages Complex Decision Making, - Build and promotes a culture of effective Risk Management., creating new distribution channel via optimisation of digital opportunities achieving growth uplift year on year by 24%, Optimisation of Digital platforms across HCF Sales and Service journeys, Implementation of web-chat and virtual video consultations, Creating a leadership induction program for new and emerging leaders focused on leadership fundamentals and uplifting capability, Chapter lead of five major projects during the organization’s largest ever core system digital transformation, Operational Excellence, creating and execution of frameworks and management tools uplifting capability leadership and across all sales contact centre functions

Timeline

Head of Retail Sales

HCF Australia
04.2016 - 04.2024

Head of Call Centre Sales

HCF Australia
01.2014 - 01.2016

Call Centre Sales & Retention Manager

HCF Australia
01.2010 - 01.2014

Call Centre Sales & Retention Manager

Manchester Unity
01.2007 - 01.2010

Business Development Manager

Macquarie Radio Network (2GB & 2CH)
01.1996 - 01.1999

Advanced Diploma in Business - Bussiness

AIM Training Institute

Marketing for Managers (Post Graduation) - Sales And Marketing Education

AIM

Lead Successful Change Management - Prosci - Change Management

Prosci

Coaching as a Leadership Style - Coaching Leaders

Coaching Australia

Tactical Leadership Coaching -

Grist

Executive Coaching Qualification - Executive Coaching

Coaching Australia

Accredited Culture Coach -

Human Synergistics

First Aid & CPR Training -

St John Ambulance

Mental Health First Aid -

St John Ambulance
Leon Liveris