This is a key sales role that is responsible for growing professional services business in the designated region to help achieve and exceed the sales booking targets. Working very closely with other oracle stakeholders including the license sales and pre sales team as well as broader Oracle organization to upsell and cross sell products and services in the target accounts is a key expectation of this role. 

 

Building the consulting services book of business by qualifying deals and creating a healthy pipeline is a key requirement for this role. The individual should be comfortable to make presentations to C level executives and articulate the value of proposition of Oracle banking suite of products and services, create a sales account plan for target accounts and actively pursue and manage the close plan for accounts where a deal closure is imminent. This role expects the person to have a high level of emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills given that this role will need to communicate with a range of stakeholders within the organization during a deal pursuit. Experience in banking, solutioning of analytical applications / products, a broader understanding of the finance and risk landscape is definite plus for this role. In addition, the person should have good understanding of the current developments in the technology side, especially on adoption of fintech services, big data, cloud and machine learning. 

 

The individual is also responsible for structuring the professional services deal which involves documentation of the proposal covering articulation of business pain points, proposed solutioning, architecture options, deployment models , risk and mitigation  and pricing options. The person should be hands on with MS office tools viz., MS excel, PowerPoint as well as MPP.  The role also includes contract negotiations and managing internal stake holders during the sales and contracting lifecycle

 

KPI’s for the role

 

Accelerate growth of O professional services by providing repeatable, profitable and innovative solutions to enable customers realize business value:

 

Financial - Achieve the sales booking and margin targets Customer satisfaction - Help customers adopt best practices and service offerings and ensure customers achieve ROI for Oracle investments  Operational – Lead the sales discussions with the client , run the bid pack and proposal approvals with the global risk management and business approvers and ensure that proposals are approved within the agreed TAT Compliance – ensure compliance with the extant policies and guidelines 

 

Desired Skill set and experience 

 

Track record of managing a large services P&L to accelerate revenue, margin and growth Experience of selling to banks in the region. Strong and established relationship with C level and senior managers of financial institutions in the region  Strong academic background. Engineering graduates with management degree holders would be preferred  At least 10- 15 years’ experience selling core banking applications / services for  IT companies in the same space  to C level stakeholders in large financial institutions  At least 5 years of experience in similar role in Asia Pacific region  Good business and commercial acumen with strong negotiation skills Ability to work in a multi-cultural work environment, cutting across time zones  Ability to build relationships with the organization and maintain solid professional relationship Prior Experience in dealing with Risk, performance and compliance management solutions for Banks and financial institutions preferred. Exceptional communication and presentation skills

 

 

 

 

Career Level - IC4