Applications Alliances and Channel Director

Job Description

As an agent of rapid growth, the Leader of Apps for our Alliances and Channels (A&C) business for UK region, will continue to drive and deliver on the go-to-market partner eco-system model to grow Oracle Application business and partners, equipping customers with the solution that best supports their needs.

As a senior member of Apps Alliances & Channel team, the ideal candidate will work in concert with Partners, Field Sales and Business Development to accelerate, engage, recruit the outstanding Apps eco-system, land A&C strategy to make Oracle Apps partners successful, and drive Apps footprint expansion to new partners and new customers and new solutions areas.

Career Level – IC4

Responsibilities

As the Apps A&C Director, you are accountable for building your Apps partners short and long-term strategy and manage your teams to achieve and exceed your business objectives and driving incremental value to our partners for Oracle customers.

• Initiate and develop strong, balanced-build, trusted advisor-oriented relationships across Oracle senior management, industry practice leaders, technology and client team leaders that can be leveraged to build new opportunities in Oracle’s ecosystem and growth targets.

• Work in unison with internal partners to tap into connections and relationships that nurture a culture of pro-active teaming across Oracle Sales, Pre-Sales and Business Development at regional and global levels.

• Define an Apps GTM strategy including partner recruitment and partner technical enablement by creating the demand, promote awareness and develop a certified ecosystem, to ensure successful customers and partners business outcomes.

• Set mutually agreed objectives based on customer needs; ‘make the market together’ and define the corresponding joint investments required.

• Lead and coordinate global Strategic Alliances and Partnerships to support growth objectives.

• Align to the global strategy: complete initiatives in region, drive sales alignment such as account planning, RFP responses, and applying sales plays that leverages across different markets.

• Prioritize Oracle resources and investments per partner category, based on global strategy and return on investment balancing existing partner ecosystem and new partners.

• Identify the messages and value propositions to be used for demand generation with the Partner community.

• Ensure sound mutually agreed partner business plans and a structured governance based on joint performance indicators (meaningful metric) and key accounts results.

• Establish rules of engagement and operational partner concern procedures to quickly identify and resolve issues.

Preferred Skills and Experience!

• Outstanding Sales and Business Development experience

• Be recognized as an Industry/ Apps technologies Spokesperson.

• Confirmed successful experience in sales, business development or channel positions

• Strong eye for business, planning and execution skills.

• Excellent at building businesses in a fast-paced environment, as well as, getting results in a sophisticated matrixed organization.

• Ability to drive a culture of accountability, execution, and business outcome orientation.

• An upbeat and hardworking leader to lead teams to the Cloud acceleration journey.

• Excellent written, presentation and interpersonal communication skills

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