Senior Cloud Manager

Roles and responsibilities

Take a key role in building up and driving these most complex partner lead SaaS transformational implementations to success.
Assess and mitigate risk making sure the partner implementation is according to standards.
Assess and mitigate risk for all project constraints and manage contracts accordingly.
Lead by example and be a natural accepted mentor for the Customer, Oracle and Partners involved in the transformation as essential part of the program and key member of Steerco.
Balance between all elements of a multi-faceted role, including (non-exhaustive):
Have a wholistic overview of a portfolio of a specific / key projects within a specific client.
Pro-actively, hands on and customer facing, putting some of these projects on the right track and react promptly and effectively on early warning signs within this portfolio.
Passion for and ability to have cross-industry consultative conversations regarding business challenges and opportunities building trusted advisory relationships with customers and partners alike.
Deep product and market expertise in Cloud Delivery, including customer needs, competitive landscape, and key trends in the industry.
8-10+ years of experience product line and/or Cloud transformation.
Proven experience leading end-to-end success of cloud solutions across Product and other functions including Marketing, Sales, Service, Alliances, and/or Support.
World-class communication and cross-functional teamwork skills. Able to handle challenging meetings with internal and external executives.
Hands on – not just a leader/talker but someone who wants to roll up her/his sleeves to get the job done.
Technical aptitude and business acumen.
Entrepreneurial with a continuous improvement mindset that embraces ambiguity, seeing it as an opportunity to drive transformational change.
A highly collaborative leader who can navigate different personalities, work well in teams, and believes that 1+1=>3.
A strong focus on ownership and execution. Someone with the appropriate level of drive and “toughness” to effectively manage in a fast-paced and at time ambiguous environment, ensuring results and deadlines are achieved.
A strong balance of strategic and tactical skills, with a high level of intellectual, agility and capacity for original thought.
Focuses on actions/outcomes; driven to overachieve. Lives and breathes execution and customer success.
An exceptional communicator who can write, present, and effectively adjust messages to meet individual audiences and organizations.

Desired candidate profile

• 8-10+ years of experience
• Master degree or equivalent.
• Being a self starting, entrepreneural, self managing, resilient leader. Be solution oriented with a high level of adaptability (AQ).
• Ability to work effectively with and through a matrix and a virtual organisation, requiring management through influencing, based upon trust and leadership skills.
• Personality and ability to establish a trustful relationship with executive level stakeholders within the Oracle cross Lob organisation and customers and partners outside the Oracle organisation.
• Successful track record as Program Director of transformational and international SaaS transformation projects.
• Experience in managing Turn around of escalated IT transformation projects successfully with entry and exit criteria for engagement.
• Sophisticated executive communication and interpersonal skills bringing multiple internal and customer stakeholders to common understanding and agreement
• Have a strong continuous improvement mindset.
• Be Senior and influential with a strong executive presence (internally and externally)
• Bring a good level of overall functional Expertise in Saas (especially in ERP/HCM)
• Strong understanding on how to lead a front, middle, and back office digital transformation
• Have the ability to delegate, monitor and report on executive level
• Commercial sensitiveness of Saas Software contracts and Implementation costs
• Flexibility to work from home or travel across the region when required (assume max 50% travel – potentially needing travel on very short notice).