Business Operations Partner for Iberia Technology

Based in Madrid (Spain)

Job Description

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Desired Skills & Experience

Job summary

As Oracle undergoes a huge business transformation making Cloud the key pillar of the Technology business. The Business Operations Partner for Iberia Technology Leaders becomes more and more important as the key partner to the Senior Sales Director/Vice President in Iberia: you will help him/her understanding the state of the business and providing pivotal information, analysis and strategy to drive business decisions.

You will need to be able to handle multiple priorities and address key business challenges with senior stakeholders from different departments.

We need a mix of both strategic and analytical thinking, someone that has led transformation projects and developed strategy as well as someone who can interpret numbers and make meaningful assessments of them for the sales leadership.

Key Result Areas

• Support initiatives to recruit/build the organization
• Develop initiatives to boost sales
• Assist performing competitive analysis 
• Ensure process consistency within the region and assist with building out Best Practices
• Support Executive (SD or VP)  in preparing strategic assessments
• Provide pivotal metrics that drive decision making
• Work in collaboration with Finance and HR departments to monitor financial and People KPIs.

Experience & educational/knowledge requirements

• Demonstrated initiative in an unstructured environment with multiple projects & priorities
• Proven ability to work in a team environment
• Experience in running large transformation processes
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Strong Experience in working in a Strategic Technology or multinational firm or business operations role
• Spanish and fluent in English
• Expertise with Microsoft products (Excel, PowerPoint)
• MBA is a plus

As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process, prior to an offer being made. This will involve identity and employment verification, salary verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).

Provides programs to improve operational efficiency, consistency, and compliance in support of the organization*s financial and tactical business objectives. Provides business practices and processes. Develops, communicates, and trains the organization on business practices and processes.

Serve as a liaison with other divisions such as Finance, Contracts, HR, Legal, Shared Services, Accounts Receivable, Purchasing, and Risk Management in an effort to ensure accurate and timely transaction processing. Collect, input, verify, correct, and analyze data to measure key performance indicator actual versus business objectives. Provide updates to management regarding budget to actual, informing them of deviations and opportunities. Provide management with economic impact and compliance issues surrounding key business decisions and/or deals. Communicate Oracle Business Practices to the organization and monitor process and approvals for full compliance. Drive implementation of new processes and procedures.

Job duties are varied and complex utilizing independent judgment. May have project lead role. Attention to detail critical. Ability to collect, organize, and display data in spreadsheet format. Follow-through skills necessary to get information from internal and third parties and have data errors/omissions corrected. For this, relationship management skills strongly desired. Strong written and verbal communication skills to interact with management and possible clients desired. 5 plus years relevant work experience.