POSITION DESCRIPTION TEMPLATE
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Job Title
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Senior Client Partner
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Department
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Sales
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Position role reports to
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Regional Director AU, NZ and IN
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Overall Objective/Purpose
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The Senior Client Partner Lead role is a unique combination of client direct sales, business development, client strategy and project management across Oracle Advertising. The position will be responsible for continuing to grow our strategic partnerships with leading brands and agencies in AU & NZ. The job is to understand how the Oracle Advertising product suite best complements these brand’s offerings, helping them enable more effective digital campaigns.
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Responsibilities of Role
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- OKRs: Set your brands and agencies OKRs and review quarterly for brands and agencies including revenue growth, key advertiser reach and network development.
- Revenue Growth: Develop and execute account plans with a focus on activities that will reach near-term revenue goals and lay the groundwork for sustainable long-term growth. Work closely with internal teams and business operations teams to track progress against forecasts.
- Relationship Development: Continually develop brand partner relationships based on trust, communication, and collaboration. The goal is to move beyond a vendor-buyer relationship to something truly strategic—where teams are collaborating on account planning and more co-pitches.
- Evangelism and Education: Ensure that your brands have the tools and understanding they need to be successful in recommending Oracle Advertising solutions internally or to their media agencies.
- Product Development: Actively communicate to the Product team how Oracle Advertising offerings are being received and help identify potential new offerings.
- Team Co-ordination: Identify the right resources within Oracle Advertising to present the best solutions to our brands. This requires working across many different groups, from the US, SEA & EMEA sales and product teams in analytics and marketing.
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Main Duties
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- Compile and prioritise prospective clients and opportunities
- Gain knowledge and understanding of Oracle Advertising products and solutions and also competitor landscape
- Regular visits and ongoing conversations with prospective and existing clients to sell or upsell Oracle Advertising products and solutions
- Promotion of Oracle Advertising products and solutions to prospective and existing clients
- Prepare quotes and negotiate prices and credits terms for prospective and renewal clients
- Work with Account Management to ensure successful usage of Oracle Advertising products
- Work with Account Management to assist with troubleshooting of Oracle Advertising products as they arise
- Timely delivery of reporting to sales management on a weekly basis
- Prepare and submit timely business expense reports
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Qualifications & Skills Requirement
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- A bachelor degree or higher qualification
- 8+ years in sales, sales engineering, or business development roles working with brands direct, publishers, or digital media providers (Networks, DSPs, DMPs, etc.)
- Subject matter expertise in audience or context targeting, mobile and/or video preferred.
- Demonstrated track record building and growing revenue across assigned accounts
- In-depth knowledge of digital advertising processes and techniques. Solid understanding of ad-tech ecosystem
- Demonstrated ability to build relationships over time, converting transactional relationships to trusted partnerships
- Strong energy, drive and enthusiasm balanced with patience and persistence
- Solid verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to work in teams and be flexible within a dynamic environment
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Registration & Licensing Requirement (if applicable)
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Not Applicable
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Builds long term, strategic relationships with named and vertical business alliance partners.
Facilitates the development of strategic marketing and new business plans for all assigned partners to meet or exceed assigned business goals. Works with Partners to identify opportunities and create demand through lead generation activities and target account selling strategies. Actively track joint sales pipeline and meet or exceed quarterly and annual revenue targets. Develop and maintain relationships with global counterparts to leverage corporate initiatives and to ensure adherence to Alliances and Channel standards. Monitor partners business results, making recommendations for improvements to increase penetration for the strategic partners. Establish rules of engagement and operational escalation procedures to quickly identify and resolve issues.
Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Demonstrated track record developing and managing Global Partnerships and driving Partner account activity. Prefer strong analytical, sales channel and marketing skills. Prefer 8 years of related experience with a secondary education in Marketing or a related field.