Job description / Role
Job Summary
- Customer aligned, the ACE role is responsible for customer lifecycle from project concept to usage and expansion within the customer.
- Drives alignment with the Cloud Sales Rep, working as a team within the customer to define/drive sales strategy, find and win new workloads, technical due diligence to achieve the "Technical Win"
- Maintains an awareness of the customer's infrastructure and is highly technically competent - Advises on new workloads - i.e. Move & Improve
- Orchestrates the technical teams/skills required to ensure our technology is driving customer business outcome and sustainable usage/growth
- Builds the consumption plan for and with the customer
- Works with the Cloud Adoption Manager to ensure customer adoption health & customer experience
Roles&Responsibilities
- The ACE will orchestrate all technical activity in the account and is always in the leading position for presales activities.
- Actively involved in the Oracle account team in defining account strategy, execute and drive the consumption growth.
- Is accountable for the successful experience of customer(s) in their territory.
- Understands customers overall portfolio, IT and business priorities and establishes a solution that addresses customer needs.
- Drive effectiveness and impact in the way we engage with customers, become customer Trusted Advisor.
- Informs customers/prospects on Oracle emerging technologies and how they will create value and competitive differentiation
- Presents Oracle's technology demonstrating deep familiarity with infrastructure, security and integration capabilities.
- Acts as customer single point of contact for cloud engineering related aspects
- Engage Oracle Cloud technology team, lead virtual team to support in create the solution, design architecture, deliver POC, tailored technical workshops during sales cycle.
- Leads activities and teams to help position the value of Oracle's Cloud and continually meet customer expectations.
Requirements
- Broad technical experience of Cloud Infrastructure and Platform solutions along with a strong understanding of cloud architecture. Knowledge of Oracle platform services and cloud infrastructure would be a strong advantage.
- Demonstrates leadership capability including the ability to delegate activities & involve the right teams/skills sets.
- Clearly able to articulate the Cloud offerings in the market and with the ability to discuss architectures
- Excellent communication and presentation skills for a group with high degree of comfort speaking across all levels of management (eg IT management, Architects, administrators and executives).
- Experience in understanding complex customer ecosystems with the ability to translate customer needs into workable solutions
- Familiar with 3rd party and Oracle Architecture frameworks (eg TOGAF, ECal)
- High level of commercial business understanding
- Intelligence to identify key trends and insights and leverage them in driving decision making and execution within customer
- Experience in engaging and influencing stakeholders.
- Ability to build relationships to grow business. Act as a partner to our customers, not just a vendor.
About the Company
Oracle offers an integrated array of applications, databases, servers, storage, and cloud technologies to empower modern business. For most companies, flexibility is critical. Oracle provides a wide choice of software, systems, and cloud deployment models - including public, on-premises, and hybrid clouds - to ensure that technology flexes to the unique needs of a business.
Oracle Cloud is a complete, integrated stack of platform, infrastructure, and application services. With advanced scalability and security, Oracle Cloud enables technical agility across the enterprise, connects people to information for clearer insights, and fosters efficiency through simplified workflows.
More than 420,000 customers across 145 countries have harnessed Oracle technology to accelerate their digital transformation.