Senior Sales Executive

Senior Sales Executive - Oracle Utilities-2200055B

**Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages**: English

**Preferred Qualifications**

Senior Sales Executive - Oracle Utilities
Southern Africa

Oracle’s Utilities Global Business Unit (UGBU) provides commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software solutions for all major functions in the Utility Sector. These include Customer Care & Billing, Meter Data Management, Settlements, and Network & Outage Management.
The Oracle Utilities Global Business Unit (UGBU) enhances the Oracle brand by delivering best of breed business solutions and professional services to the utility industries around the world. Our customers value us above all other competitors because of our thought leadership, understanding of their needs, talents and superior ability to provide world-class solutions for the challenges they face. Our customer relationships can be leveraged by all of Oracle to grow Oracle's relevance in our industries.

SCOPE:

- To win new Applications license business in the Oracle Utilities Global Business Unit
- Reports to the EMEA VP Sales Oracle Utilities Global Business Unit
- Has no direct reports, but leads the activities of virtual teams in support of opportunities
- Works in the utility industry on a defined set of accounts ranging from large global enterprises to mid-tier in the designated territory
- Identifies and segments all organizations that fall into their designated territory, plans and executes sales campaigns for their territory and ensures customer satisfaction
- Works with appropriate Oracle Partners
- Works with other Lines of Business (LOBs)

PRODUCTS AND SOLUTIONS SOLD UNDER THIS ROLE:
Entire Oracle Utilities Global Business Unit product portfolio, please click on the hyperlink to review Products by Category

RESPONSIBILITIES/ACCOUNTABILITIES:

- Developing a strategy and sales plan to address the designated accounts/territory
- Identify and grow partnerships to successfully address client’s needs and create differentiators
- Generating and following up on leads.
- Marshalling internal and Partner resources to conduct the sales process.
- Identifying and working with the appropriate people in Oracle and the Customer.
- Facilitating and nurturing Senior Management relationships to generate active sponsorship of Oracle.
- Maintaining an understanding of Oracle's strategic direction and interpreting its relevance to the territory/industry.
- Maintaining an awareness of Oracle Utilities' current and future Application products and services.
- Actively maintaining a depth of product knowledge of Oracle solutions in the Utilities market.
- Research and communicate current industry trends, drivers and potential
- Communicate the benefits of Oracle value propositions to the market
- Work with appropriate people to co-ordinate marketing activities in order to generate leads
- Create and manage bids teams
- Produce an accurate weekly / monthly forecast and pipeline
- Build and maintain effective relationships with other Oracle LOBs to ensure resources are made available as and when required
- Establish and maintain contractual agreements between Oracle and the Customers
- Maintain customer satisfaction in with accounts throughout and beyond the implementation
- Operate in line with Oracle's business processes and procedures
- Deliver and co-ordinate customer presentations and demonstrations
- Attend Industry forums

ESSENTIAL SKILLS
- Excellent track record of meeting targets
- Demonstrated ability to close large complex deals
- Proven track record in building relationships at all levels within utility companies
- Influencing and negotiating skills
- Strong knowledge of the utility industry drivers in Southern Africa including Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique, Angola, Malawi etc
- Speaking Portuguese would be an advantage

**Detailed Description and Job Requirements**

Sells a subset of product or services directly or via partners to a large number of named accounts/non-named accounts/geographical territory (mainly Tier 3 accounts).

**Job**: Sales
**Location**: ZA-ZA,South Africa-Johannesburg

**Job Type**: Regular Employee Hire
**Organization**: Oracle