About the Role
As the Oracle Ecosystem Business Development Director, you will be a growth-focused professional responsible for developing and executing the firm's strategic relationship with Oracle to accelerate market growth, joint sales, and client success. You will possess a strong understanding of business development and the sales lifecycle in collaboration with eco-system partners, including account planning, opportunity identification, relationship development, opportunity qualification, and joint go-to-market execution. You will have significant experience working within the Oracle ecosystem and understand Oracle's partner organisation, commercial models, partner programmes, sales motions, and technology strategy. You will continuously strengthen executive relationships across Oracle to position the firm as a strategic partner of choice. You will have or establish a broad knowledgeable understanding of Oracle’s product portfolio and become familiar with Accenture’s corresponding mix of Oracle-related offerings. Offerings sit at the heart of our campaigns designed to drive growth. Detailed materials are created globally however you will have an area you can go deep into (eg intelligent spend management, HR modernization and transformation) representing something of a go-to SME stopping short of being a deep technical expert. This knowledge will allow you to credibly promote Accenture in this field internally and externally building credibility with a range of stakeholders. You will develop strong relationships with key Accenture stakeholders—including Client Account Leads (CALs), Industry leadership, Reinvention Partners, Sales leaders, and Growth & Strategy teams—as well as Oracle Partner Account Managers, Sales Executives, Industry teams, Product organisations, and regional Alliance leadership. You will bring together Accenture's industry expertise, Oracle capabilities, and joint offerings to identify and qualify new client opportunities, shape differentiated value propositions, and support account teams throughout the sales lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Drive joint sales and commercial growth by identifying co-sell opportunities, supporting account planning, pipeline management, and opportunity qualification.
- Lead Market Unit relevant joint sales campaigns, demand generation initiatives, thought leadership, demand generation initiatives and solution offerings, including the creation and localisation of joint value propositions and co-branded marketing assets that drive pipeline growth and market awareness.
- Understand and track ecosystem KPIs ensuring Accenture outperform competitors and remain Oracle’s #1 partner of choice.
- Organise internal, partner and client-facing events centred on campaigns, as well as the firm's participation in conferences, to support the Alliance's strategic objectives and demand generation.
- Identify emerging Oracle technologies, strategic initiatives, and ecosystem opportunities to expand the firm's market presence and client value.
- Enable internal sales, marketing, and client teams through training, communications, and guidance on Oracle programmes, co-sell processes, partner benefits, and joint value propositions.
- Contribute to Alliance governance, including business planning, executive reporting, performance management, budget oversight, partner funding, compliance, and Oracle Partner Programme requirements.
- Define, monitor, and report Alliance performance against key metrics including partner-influenced revenue, originated pipeline, co-sell opportunities, joint wins, and partner investment utilisation.
- Collaborate across Sales, Industry, Marketing, Technology, Delivery, Finance, Customer Success, and Oracle teams to ensure consistent execution of Alliance priorities and maximise commercial outcomes.
- Represent the firm at executive meetings, Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), Oracle events, and strategic forums, strengthening executive engagement and advancing the specific campaigns and solution area long-term partnership.
Requirements
- Minimum of 8 years of Business Development in the professional services space.
- Channel and Ecosystem partner management experience and ways of working.
- Proven ability to operate within a broad network, acting as a cross-teams orchestrator.
- Demonstrated commitment, teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting.
- High energy level, focus and ability to work well in demanding client environments.
- Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
- Strong leadership, problem solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Unquestionable professional integrity, credibility and character.
- High-level understanding of Oracle’s enterprise solution portfolio and partner ecosystem.
- Previous experience in conceptualizing, planning, and implementing tTransformation programmes.
- Experience working within G2000 customers.
- Experience with C-Level client relationship building and relationship management.
- Ability to discuss latest technology hot-topics “on the fly” with VP+ clients and working level technical resources.
- Strong understanding of Oracle partner tooling, partner programmes, commercial models and sales processes.
- Knowledge of Oracle AI for Fusion Applications, Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, and Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications across key business domains including HCM, SCM, EPM and CX.
Skills
- Business Development
- Channel and Ecosystem partner management
- Cross-teams orchestration
- Communication (written and oral)
- Interpersonal skills
- Leadership
- Problem solving
- Decision-making
- Oracle enterprise solution portfolio understanding
- Oracle partner ecosystem understanding
- Transformation programmes conceptualization, planning, and implementation
- G2000 customer experience
- C-Level client relationship building and management
- Latest technology discussions
- Oracle partner tooling
- Oracle partner programmes
- Oracle commercial models
- Oracle sales processes
- Oracle AI for Fusion Applications
- Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence
- Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
- Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications (HCM, SCM, EPM, CX)
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum of 8 years of Business Development in the professional services space.
Benefits
- Part of a diverse, vibrant, global Accenture community.
- Opportunity to work on meaningful and innovative projects.
- Continuous investment in learning and growth.
- Learn from and work with Accenture’s certified practitioners.
- Support in growing your own tech stack, sales skills, and certifications.
- Immersed in the design and implementation of human-centric solutions.
About the Company
- Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries.
- Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world.
- We bring together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale.
- Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology.
- We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue.
- Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale.
- We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.
- Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships.
- We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability.
- Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships.
- We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
Equal Opportunity
- We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
- Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.
