Business Operations Partner for Workload Architect Teams at Oracle

Preferred Qualifications

 Go ahead, amaze us.

When you provide the world’s most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware system’s and work with all 100 of the Fortune 100, you have pretty high standards. That’s why at Oracle, we seek only the top talent to join our team.

In return, we provide the opportunity for you to showcase your talent as you enjoy the rewards of working with technology that is the envy of the industry. Join us and be part of the best driving force in the business.

Change is good.  This change is even better.

If you feel like you’ve hit the ceiling of your current job, join the company whose potential is virtually limitless. Oracle is the global leader in advanced business software, hardware and middleware solutions.  In fact, we help drive the success of all 100 companies in the Fortune 100.  If you’re a highly ambitious professional looking for more from your career, we’d like to help drive your success too.

Desired Skills & Experience

Job summary

As Oracle undergoes a huge business transformation, EMEA Technology Cloud Engineering (TCE) plays a key role in accelerating this transformation by helping our customer in their first migration to Cloud. TCE is designed to accelerate Oracle Cloud consumption by providing our customers with a faster time-to-value via best practice architecture design and deployment. The Business Operations Partner for TCE Senior Directors becomes more and more important in this picture. As the Business Operations Partner for the Workload Architect Management team within EMEA TCE you will help them understanding the state of the business by providing pivotal information, analysis and strategy to drive business decisions.

You will need to be able to handle multiple priorities and address key business challenges with senior stakeholders from different departments.

We need a strong analytical thinking person as well as someone who can interpret numbers and make meaningful assessments of them for the sales leadership.

Key Result Areas   

1. Business planning:

• Plan and drive together with Workload Architect (WLA) Management the engagement pipeline, ensuring specialist services coverage of new workload opportunities.
• Work with management on Planning (Headcount, Utilisation, productivity, service routing)

1. Business and change management initiatives:

• Cross TCE and Sales ecosystems collaboration: Act as an interface between WLA and other key functions in EMEA TCE, Sales and Global Ops to identify and resolve critical business issues
• Tools and Process enablement:  Drive business improvement by reviewing and improving key business processes and tools.
• Project manage other important business operations projects as requested by senior business operations management and sales leadership; 

1. Business Insight and Operational Excellence:

• Provide business insight, reporting and recommendations to meet/overachieve business expectations
• Proactively highlight possible gaps and risk areas, recommend improvements/changes to process where possible.
• Work with WLA teams to resolve issues on daily usage of systems for engagement tracking and give guidance.

1. Governance and Strategic Programs

• Define and optimize WLA team Governance and KPIs (Define success criteria and business management metrics)
• Work with management and be advisor on running the governance for the team.
• Represent WLA business operations in specific EMEA-wide operations and business projects and change management. 

Ultimately to be seen as a trusted Business Advisor, providing essential business operational support as well as acting as a sounding board for other key business issues of concern to business leaders.

Experience & educational/knowledge requirements

• Strong analytical thinking person as well as someone who can interpret numbers and make meaningful assessments of them for the sales leadership
• Demonstrated initiative in an unstructured environment with multiple projects & priorities
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Proven ability to work in a team environment
• Expertise with Microsoft products (especially Excel and PowerPoint)
• Fluent in English

As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process, prior to an offer being made. This will involve identity and employment verification, salary verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).