Portfolio Director Oracle E-Business Suite for Aspire Managed Services

Company Description

Version 1’s market leading Enterprise Applications Practice specialises in Finance, Supply Chain, HR, and Payroll Solutions with over 650 Oracle Specialists across the UK, Ireland, US, Australia, India and Slovenia.

We deliver consulting and managed services to transform and optimise ways of working for more than 230 customers through the provision of specialist knowledge right across the Oracle product stack – Oracle Fusion Cloud for ERP, HCM and EPM, eBusiness Suite, JDEdwards, Peoplesoft and Hyperion, not to mention extensive expertise in Analytics, Infrastructure, and Integration.

We have grown both organically and through acquisition, with our most recent acquisition of EPM and Analytics experts Qubix bringing 170 specialists to our team.

Our Oracle Fusion Cloud team has grown significantly over the past 3 years powered by recent business wins including Galliford Try, Bank of England, An Post, Inizio Health, Birmingham City Council, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and QBE Insurance.

We have an exciting growth strategy that will see further rapid growth and opportunity to drive value for our customers into 2024 and beyond.

• Number 1 - Best place to work in Ireland #GPTW2023
• 5th Best Large Workplace in the UK #GPTW
• 10th place in Glassdoor’s Top 50 UK companies
• UK & Ireland’s premier Oracle, Microsoft & AWS partner  
• Market leader in Oracle ERP and Cloud Applications  
• Consulting, implementation, and support services  
• 3200+ strong, €347m/£302m revenue business  
• ERP Partner of the Year  

Job Description

The Oracle E-Business Suite Portfolio Director role within the Enterprise Applications practice will lead a team of over 80 consultants and support over 30 customers to deliver a portfolio of c £/€8m. Reporting to the Head of ASPIRE Managed Services in Enterprise Applications, you will lead a team to deliver ASPIRE Managed Services. This is a senior role in Version 1, with opportunity for the right individual to further progress into senior practice leadership roles across Version 1.

ASPIRE is a differentiated value-led approach to Managed Services that relentlessly seeks to make a real difference to our customers business, it places continuous improvement, value, and business innovation at the heart of everything we do. ASPIRE is one of our strategic pillars for 2024 and Service Delivery is key to its success. As the Portfolio Director you will be expected to lead the team and deliver value to our customers and support the commercial and bid team to win new business and grow the customer base and contribute to the ASPIRE strategy and be at the forefront of value-add initiatives.

In this role you will have full ownership for the P&L of the portfolio and as such, you will likely have held portfolio or programme management roles in the past with responsibility for budgets in the region of £/€500k to £/€3m, or beyond. You will have experience in delivering Customer First outcomes and will understand the challenges in delivering transformational change involving ERP systems. Skills such as the ability to inspire and drive teams, commercial acumen and leading on bids for delivery, ability to ask tough questions, curiosity and willingness to learn are regarded as more important in this role than a deep understanding of Oracle ERP.  Oracle experience is NOT mandatory for this role. The role will suit experienced Portfolio Directors, with Oracle or other technologies such as SAP, Workday, Sage, etc.

You will be seen as central in the shaping and delivery of key proposals and will be recognised by customers and colleagues as a leader who can bring together the right group of people to deliver the right solution and play a leading role in understanding the needs of the customer, to address customer challenges and understand the commercial balance required to nurture a growing element of our organisation

Qualifications

You will have experience in leading a team, in managing and growing a portfolio of projects/customers and you will be passionate about defining and developing solutions which meet customer challenges and understand the commercial balance required to deliver these solutions between top and bottom-line growth. You’ll enjoy customer engagement and be comfortable with balancing multiple competing demands whilst leading and developing a diverse and highly talented team and promoting and inspiring our core values right across the delivery team.

• Key participant in leading and delivering time-pressure bids, including pricing and customer presentations.
• High commercial awareness and ability to manage, report and analyse GP, EBITDA, margin for your team.
• Proven ability to attain and retain customers with high satisfaction levels.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills – w