Cloud Sales Manager

Be the vital piece of the puzzle that connects us to the millions of businesses that need our help to evolve. You will.

• Accelerate customer adoption of Oracle Cloud by engaging with your key clients in building a value proposition that will help them in transforming their infrastructure / application landscape. This would involve moving (and improving) core workloads to cloud (EBS JDE PSFT Seibel ISV applications etc); moving (and improving) non-core workloads (like UAT Test Dev etc) to Cloud; helping clients adopt OCI to build their cloud native applications; identify insights that the client is looking for and help create a platform for Analytics in the cloud.
• Identify DB/Analytics intensive workloads that are running on-prem on competition technologies to Oracle ExaCS / ExaCC
• Understand OCI technologies adequately backed by certifications to be able to handle Cloud discussions independently with client
• Be comfortable with the fact that the cloud business is composed of many small deals contrary to the typical large deals that is characteristic of the on-prem business
• Being a business that is composed of small and mid-sized ARRs it will be imperative to run the business on an equidistant basis execute for a closure in the week/ month and plan for the quarters ahead
• Are natural collaborators who engage the whole of Oracle - pre-sales engineers/enterprise cloud architects consulting & services teams to deliver signature outcomes and experiences to their clients
• Work closely with the Channels team and ISVs to ensure that OCI is the partners preferred cloud computing platform across all service lines.
• The right candidate will possess 15 years of experience in IT software sales (face-to-face) have successful experiences from the past in solution selling.
• She/he would have consistently exceeded key performance metricsdemonstrated success in concluding large complex dealsby building and articulating a compelling point of view.
• Technical competencies in the areas of cloud computing database SOA web services analytics and enterprise software are key.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.

Primary job duty is to sell technology software products and related services in a defined territory. Identifies qualifies and closes new opportunities. Manages accounts including the entire sales process from business development prospecting and specifications through contract negotiations signing and post-sales support. Leverages the Oracle sales model to maximize revenue growth and increase local market share. Builds and expands business partner revenue and self sufficiency.

Career Level - IC4