Senior Sales Consultant Job Vacancy at Oracle Lagos, Nigeria

Oracle – provides the world’s most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware
systems, with more than 370,000 customers including 100 of the Fortune 100 representing a variety of sizes and industries in more than 145 countries around the globe. Oracle’s product strategy provides flexibility and choice to our customers across their IT infrastructure. Now, with Sun server, storage, operating-system, and virtualization technology, Oracle is the only vendor able to offer a complete technology stack in which every layer is integrated to work together as a single system. In addition, Oracle’s open architecture and multiple operating-system options gives our customers unmatched benefits from industry-leading products, including excellent system availability, scalability, energy efficiency, powerful performance, and low total cost of ownership.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Senior Sales Consultant

Job Id: 1500091H
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Travel: Yes, 75 % of the Time
Job Type: Regular Employee Hire

Detailed Description

    Provides direction and specialist knowledge in applying the technology/application to client business.
    Facilitation of customer product/application understanding through presentations demonstrations and benchmarks; provision of support throughout the sell.
    As a Senior Sales Consultant you will be responsible for providing presales technical / functional support to prospective clients and customers while ensuring customer satisfaction with minimal supervision.
    Acts as a technical resource for less experienced Sales Consultants.
    Develop and deliver high quality standard Oracle presentations and demonstrations.
    Present and articulate advanced product features and benefits, product future direction and overall Oracle solutions.
    Design, validate, and present Oracle software solutions to include advanced product concepts, future direction, and 3rd party complimentary products.
    Develop and manage reference sites through high quality technical, professional client relationships.
    This role will report to ASC Manager.
    This role’s key objective is to support Primavera’s Sales Executives with revenue attainment and growth across Africa.
    This role will involve frequent travel and requires the successful candidate to have a great knowledge of Portfolio and Project Management tools and a good understanding of PPM processes.

Primary Responsibilities include

    Presales support for Africa operations.
    Discussion with customers, VARs to validate customers’ pain points and requirements via meetings, phone calls, webinars and/or emails.
    Demonstration of Primavera solution based on clients’ requirements either derived from RFP or detailed requirement analysis.
    RFP response from a functional and technical perspective.
    Creation and monitoring of customer evaluation, pilots and proof of concepts.
    Sourcing answers to technical questions regarding a defined sales opportunity.
    Running seminars and workshops for target accounts.
    Participating in EMEA Primavera Global Business Unit executive marketing events.

Other Responsibilities include:

    To deliver the Sales Enablement Program within predefined timelines.
    To provide feedback on program materials to cater for the local business culture.
    To collect feedback from program attendees on quality of training delivered.
    Supporting Business Development and Marketing activities.
    Support for In-country Review on localization.
    Have project control experience.
    Have project cost engineer experience, such as project budgets and forecasts.
    Have project management implementation experience.
    Have project planning experience.
    Understand project risks.

Job Requirements

    Job duties are varied and complex, needing independent judgment.
    May have project lead role. 5 years vendor (sales and marketing) experience.
    5 years relevant computer applications or database/tools.
    Demonstrated proficiency in one multi-user operating system.
    Through knowledge of system and application design.
    Strong verbal and written communication skills: needs analysis, positioning, business justification, closing techniques.
    Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems with accounts in complex technical environments.
    Ability to travel as needed.
    B.Sc Degree or equivalent; advanced degree desirable.

Required Experience and Skills
The primary skills for this opportunity are as follows:

    English – business level written and spoken.
    Pre-sales experience.
    Project Management industry experience.
    Project Management business consulting experience.
    Project Management software / tools experience.
    Experience in one or more of the following verticals:

    Engineering & Construction.
    Manufacturing.
    Oil & Gas.
    Utilities.

Examples of PPM Experience:

    Be able to define different scheduling techniques.
    Capable of discussing which EVM techniques can be applied to different types of situations to support successful project completion.
    Talk in depth about top down planning and bottom up planning.
    Discuss how the Monte Carlo technique enables better planning.
    Argue points for both quantitative and qualitative planning and risk assessment techniques.
    Discuss Project Portfolio selection techniques, including the use of Boston charts to support visual portfolio analysis.

Examples of Application Experience:

    Ms Project, Aconex, Clarity, Plainview, Change Point, Artemis, Bentley, Deltek, SAP, Meridian.

Remuneration
In return we offer a phenomenal career development opportunity within one of the world’s leading employers.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply

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