Job Opening at Oracle Nigeria for a Sales Director - Cloud Platform

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. We are recruiting to fill the position below:     Job Title: Sales Director - Cloud Platform Job ref.: 19000CJT Location: Nigeria Job: Sales Job Type: Regular Employee Hire Detailed Descriptions

• Overall responsibility for the regions sales, third party alliances, and customer satisfaction.
• Participates in strategic and tactical planning for the division.
• Builds working relationships with license, consulting and education field managers in the respective territory to develop joint account plans.
• Develops and execute a territory plan to maximize revenue.
• Generates and achieves monthly territory forecasts, and accurately predicts revenue on a monthly basis.
• Manages escalation.
• Develops and implements a comprehensive strategy that maximizes Oracle's opportunities across all products and product lines.
• Manages and develops a team of sales representatives including recruiting, hiring, and training new reps on the Oracle sales process.
• May manage a Regional Manager or Branch Manager.
• Sells and promotes the sales of Oracle products to customers including negotiating price, other concessions and terms and conditions of the sale.
• Conducts weekly progress meetings with sales team.
• Assists in the development of short, medium, and long term plans to achieve strategic objectives.
• Regularly interacts across functional areas with senior management or executives to ensure unit objectives are met.

• Ability to influence thinking or gain acceptance of others in sensitive situations important.
• 5 or more years sales or sales management experience within technology industry.
• Ability to hire and train new sales representatives.
• Ability to resolve customer satisfaction issues.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, ability to present to large and small audiences.
• Ability to negotiate price, other concessions and terms and conditions.
• Strong quantitative, analytical and conflict resolution abilities.
• As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process.
• This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).