Oracle Database - Pre-Sales Consultant
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Overview
Oracle is leading the digital revolution. We are empowering nearly half a million businesses across the globe to turn untapped potential into real business value. You will connect the biggest enterprises of today with the tools to compete in the digital economy of tomorrow.
Oracle is 100% passionate about the Cloud, and we’re defining new Cloud solutions categories along the way. With more Cloud solutions than anyone else, the #1 autonomous database and Oracle Cloud platform and SaaS applications, and over 80,000 customers in APAC, we are THE Cloud Company.
Description
What You’ll Do
A Solution Consultant is responsible for providing pre-sales technical support as an integral part of the revenue generation activities in a territory. Territories vary by country/region. You will be providing both pre-sales technical support as a product evangelist. The position requires public speaking, technical problem solving, and the ability to communicate with programmers, DBAs, and managers. This role role reports to the Senior Director - Japan & APAC Solution Center.
- Support achievement of sales monthly, quarterly and annual revenue objectives.
- Manage the technical element of selected customer/business partner sales cycles.
- Work with the Sales Executive to construct opportunity plans and TCO propositions.
- Reduce/eliminate technical obstacles to winning the technical recommendation.
- Provide proof/reference points that proposed solutions are architecturally sound, and operationally manageable for the customer.
- Provide Technical Account Management to key customers.
- Provide regular feedback to MySQL Marketing and Engineering on win/loss information.
- Work with selected Business Partners (Alliance, Reseller and SI Partners) to ensure their success.
- Work closely with Professional Services to reach services revenue goals and ensure customer satisfaction.
Required Skills/Experience
What You’ll Bring
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate at the technical and business management level.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to quickly grasp complex technical issues.
- Extremely detail oriented and passionate about work quality
- Appetite to learn new technologies and constantly improve technical skills.
Demonstrable experience in at least one of the following areas:
- High Performance Database - Database migrations (ExaCC, OCI, platform migration) and upgrades, Administration or deployment of Oracle engineered systems like Exadata
- Oracle Exadata
- Network Support
- Data Center Operation and Administration