Jesus De Sousa
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COMMERCIAL GROWTH

Turning Travel Money Recovery into Commercial Growth

Post Office Senior Sales Manager, Channel Engagement Summer 2022

Travel Money needed a strong commercial recovery focus following Covid.

Commercial Growth · Sales Enablement · Incentive Strategy · Integrated Delivery

£55.2m
Incremental Travel Money transaction value
£500k
Incremental net Post Office trading income
£410k
Partner / Postmaster remuneration

01The challenge

Where it started.

Rebuild Travel Money performance and branch engagement after major market disruption.

02What I led

What I led.

Created, designed and managed the programme end to end.

The programme

A national commercial programme, built to move performance.

Branch targeting · Incentive design · Integrated comms · MI

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    Understand the commercial recovery challenge and where performance needed to move.

  2. 02

    Target

    Focus activity on the branches and opportunities with the strongest potential.

  3. 03

    Incentivise

    Create a programme that gave branch teams a clear commercial reason to act.

  4. 04

    Measure

    Track performance across transaction value, trading income and partner remuneration.

Marketing should move both customers and the business.

What I led

  • Programme design
  • Branch targeting
  • Incentive structure
  • Commercial communications
  • Stakeholder alignment
  • MI and evaluation
  • End-to-end programme management

I designed and managed the programme nationally. Branch teams and Postmasters delivered the customer conversations in their own communities.

Measure what matters

Measurement was built in from the start, with performance tracked across three distinct measures: transaction value, net trading income and partner remuneration.

£55.2m
Incremental Travel Money transaction value
£500k
Incremental net Post Office trading income
£410k
Partner / Postmaster remuneration

These are three separate measures. Transaction value is not revenue, and the figures should not be combined.

03Impact

What it delivered.

£55.2m
Incremental Travel Money transaction value
£500k
Incremental net Post Office trading income
£410k
Partner / Postmaster remuneration

04What I learned

What worked
Commercial programmes are strongest when incentive design, frontline behaviour, customer opportunity and measurement reinforce the same objective.
What I would repeat
Build MI and evaluation into the programme from the beginning.
What it reinforced
Marketing and commercial activity cannot operate in isolation.

What people say

Jesus has fantastic financial modelling/forecasting skills which is a very underrated skill set in modern businesses.

Harley Lillywhite ACCALead Finance Business Partner · Post Office

LET’S CONNECT

Let’s talk about what I could bring to your team.

I’m currently exploring senior marketing leadership opportunities where marketing has a meaningful role in shaping customer strategy, commercial growth and the wider business.

London, UK