Head of AI West Europe

Oracle Corporation is at one of the most exciting moments in its already effervescent history. Endowed with an installed base of over 400 000 customers that includes the world’s most successful organizations and equipped with world leading AI IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solution, Oracle has begun supporting customers harness the ground-breaking benefits of AI to meet the challenges of today and grasp the opportunities of tomorrow. 

In the past years, some of the largest AI leading companies such as NVIDIA, Uber, xAI, Character AI, MOSAIC ML (now Databricks), or Microsoft (for its Bing service) have selected Oracle AI infrastructure to deliver their new and innovative AI services to their customers. 

To build on this success, Oracle is looking for a senior executive to drive the AI business across EMEA North, East and West Europe. This regional senior leader will build, develop and guide a talented team of senior AI sales professionals, define the GTM strategy for AI in EMEA North, East and West. This leader will be an integral part of the EMEA AI Leadership team.

Sales Territory                                     West Europe (UK, Ireland, Israel and Benelux)

Description

Reporting directly to the SVP Cloud Infrastructure, the Head of AI – West Europe, will be responsible for leading a team of AI sales talents covering Oracle AI portfolio including AI infrastructure (GPU IaaS), Machine Learning Data Science, AI Services and Gen AI services, and oversee a high-growth region with a focus on driving strong bookings and cloud revenue. 

This senior leader will be responsible for the success of a large high-growth region composed of Enterprise and Large enterprise accounts across industries such as Life Science, Finance and Manufacturing. You will collaborate closely with the country leadership teams, HQ engineering leaders, executives at partners, and other senior stakeholders to deliver against Oracle’s EMEA AI strategy and ambitions and to exceed revenue targets.

 

Sales Leadership responsibilities:

• Develop and manage a team of senior AI sales executives in the region
• Build relationships and work closely with senior sales and technical Oracle leadership in region.
• Set strategy and objectives, review the performance of the team members, provide adequate coaching, support, and take actions as needed to ensure sales and KPI targets are met.
• Build go-to-market, sales pursuit strategy, and reporting structure and cadence for the AI regional organization,
• Develop pipeline throughout the sales cycle, ensure adequate use of planning/reporting tools in a timely fashion.
• Act as an evangelist and leading industry figure for the Oracle AI domain in the market as well as internally
• Identify and exploit marketing activities and campaigns that support the achievement of commercial objectives.
• Engage with executives at relevant Oracle Partners to develop mutual success in the targeted countries.
• Act as executive sponsor at strategic customers and maintain exec relationship with key stakeholders.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven experience in managing high-performing sales teams in a technology company (ideally one of the top cloud hyper scalers in M2 capacity)
• Real-life experience building an organization from the ground-up, and exceeding results in Cloud business,
• Proven experience engaging at C-level, and building long-term relationship in fortune 500,
• Proven experience winning large data, GenAI and AI cloud projects (over $10M revenue), and successful delivery, 
• Understanding of cloud and AI trends and ability to constantly learning and upskilling.
• Strong understanding of the ISV, AI and Cloud ecosystem
• Leading by example and inspiring excellence, and a passion for coaching and developing teams of talent
  
   

This role is a unique opportunity to forge a growth strategy in one of the most exciting and disruptive technology of our time. Succeeding in this role will require you to identify how to best leverage AI’s disruptive capabilities and the opportunities they present with Oracle’s existing strengths and strong market reputation having supported the growth of hundreds of thousands of customers across the world for to drive exponential growth. 

A career at Oracle is defined by you. We give you the freedom, the authority and the assets to write your own success story. Whatever avenue you go down, you’ll gain priceless learning experiences and be supported to do your best work.  

Career Level - M5

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