Fractional Executive Search

Sell the product as well as you make it.

Victoria is full of businesses with excellent products and an uneven way of selling them. Growth comes from fixing the routes to market, not from working harder in the one you have.

A senior commercial executive at a glass wall above the business district
The situation

Where revenue stalls

The product earns its place. The selling around it does not:

01

Too much rides on a few accounts

Two or three customers carry the year, and losing one would be felt in every department.

02

Channel conflict

Retail, wholesale and direct sales undercut each other, and nobody owns the price.

03

Bids lost on preparation

Tenders and panel applications are written in a rush and priced on instinct.

04

No one to build the sales team

Hiring a salesperson is easy. Hiring the person who manages them takes a senior head you do not have.

A fractional executive sets the channel rules, the pricing and the process, then builds the team to run them. They show you which routes pay and which only keep people busy, and hand a working engine to the permanent hire.

Is it the right fit?

Who this is for, and who it is not

Best for

  • Revenue that has plateaued after the early channels ran their course
  • Marketing spend going out with little pipeline you can trust coming back
  • Sales and marketing pulling apart, with no one owning the number
  • A founder still carrying the commercial engine personally
  • A new segment or market that needs a proper go-to-market motion

Not for

  • A single campaign or asset an agency could deliver and hand back
  • A business with no product-market fit or revenue to build on yet
  • A tactical execution gap a specialist hire would fill
  • Teams unwilling to give one operator ownership of the number
A modern meeting room at dusk with a city view

A commercial engine, built and run by someone who has done it.

Why Fractional Melbourne

How we support growth

Revenue leaders are easy to hire on charm. We match on how your customers actually buy, and keep watch once the work begins.

1 monthNotice, either way
800+Curated and vetted executives
2–3 weeksBrief to deployment
30–60%Less than a full-time hire, on our engagements

Measured against the channels

We review progress on a set rhythm against the routes to market agreed at the brief, and raise drift before it costs a season.

Sales and marketing under one roof

Your executive can test channel, pricing and export questions with others in our collective of 800+.

The playbook stays with the business

We keep the brief and the channel plan current, so a change of executive starts from your routes to market rather than from a blank page.

Matched to the route to market

Distribution, tenders and direct selling are different crafts. We match to the one that matters most to you.

How it works

From diagnosis to revenue momentum

A structured engagement that moves from diagnosis to a working pipeline within months.

01

Commercial diagnostic (weeks 1–2)

Audit your current position, spend, attribution, pipeline, ICP definition, competitive positioning, team capability, and which commercial gap is the real constraint.

02

Strategy and sign-off (weeks 3–4)

A clear, actionable go-to-market strategy with prioritised channels, 90-day milestones, and commercial KPIs.

03

Execution begins (month 2–3)

Channel activation, team direction, agency management, content and campaign deployment.

04

Ongoing commercial review

Monthly pipeline tracking. Continuous optimisation. Your commercial leader stays accountable for revenue outcomes.

Which commercial leader

Do you need a fractional CMO, a CRO, or something else?

Revenue plateaus for different reasons. The right operator depends on where the commercial system is breaking.

If this is the problem
The right commercial leader
If this is the problemPositioning is unclear or the brand is not landing
The right commercial leaderFractional CMO
If this is the problemMarketing spend is not converting to pipeline
The right commercial leaderFractional CMO
If this is the problemSales and marketing are pulling apart
The right commercial leaderFractional CRO
If this is the problemPipeline forecasting is weak or untrusted
The right commercial leaderFractional CRO
If this is the problemThe founder is still the chief salesperson
The right commercial leaderFractional CRO
If this is the problemDelivery cannot handle the new demand
The right commercial leaderFractional COO
If this is the problemUnit economics are unclear
The right commercial leaderFractional CFO
Our fractional services

The right commercial leader leads revenue growth: CMO, CRO, or both.

Revenue growth usually starts as a commercial leadership problem, but delivery and unit economics often decide the outcome.

Proven leadership

Revenue leaders from

Salesforce
HubSpot
Oracle
LinkedIn
SAP
Adobe
Cisco
Workday
Common questions

The questions buyers ask first

It depends where the constraint sits. We find that at the brief and match for it, which sometimes means one executive covers both.

Pricing and channel changes can show in a quarter. New pipeline takes longer. We agree the expectations at the start.

They can. We match people who have sold into Asia and New Zealand when export is part of the brief.

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Tell us where revenue has stalled.

We will diagnose the commercial gap (positioning, pipeline, forecasting or delivery) and match the right senior operator to own it, backed by our collective of 800+ vetted leaders.

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