22 Aug
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The Hackett Group
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India
22 Aug
The Hackett Group
India
Role Scope
- This role will report operationally to the Onshore Business Development Head.
- The individual will support sales activities but will not be expected to attend US customer meetings.
- The role will focus on opportunity creation, meeting generation, prospect engagement, and marketing campaign support.
Responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities
Pipeline and Meeting Generation
- Execute targeted outbound prospecting campaigns to generate qualified sales meetings.
- Identify, engage, and nurture prospective clients across target industries.
- Conduct research to uncover potential opportunities within existing and new accounts.
- Support pipeline development by identifying client needs and qualifying opportunities.
Webinar and Marketing Campaign Support
- Promote Oracle-focused webinars and marketing initiatives.
- Drive webinar registrations and attendance through coordinated outreach efforts.
- Assist in follow-up activities related to webinars and marketing events.
- Ensure outreach efforts are structured and coordinated to avoid audience fatigue and duplicate communications.
Prospecting Activities
- Execute outbound email campaigns.
- Conduct LinkedIn-based prospecting and engagement.
- Perform event and webinar follow-up activities.
- Support partner channel prospecting initiatives.
- Conduct cold-calling activities, particularly in support of partner channel engagement and opportunity identification.
Communication and Coordination
- Draft professional outreach emails and communications targeted at executive and business audiences.
- Maintain accurate records of prospect interactions and communicate updates, notes, and opportunity insights to the onshore sales team.
- Collaborate closely with the Onshore BDA Manager and Sales Teams to ensure seamless information flow and follow-up.
Market and Industry Awareness
Develop knowledge of Oracle solutions and client challenges across key target industries, including:
- Hospitality & Gaming
- Industrial Manufacturing
- Consumer Products
- Communications, Media & Entertainment
- Professional Services (including Engineering & Construction)
- Retail
- Life Sciences
Collaboration & Coordination
- Align closely with onshore practice leaders, pre-sales teams, and alliance partners
- Act as a liaison between offshore and onshore stakeholders
Essential Skills
Job
To qualify for the role, candidate must have:
Essential Skills
- 8+ years of experience in Business Development, Sales Support, or Inside Sales
- Experience supporting US-based sales teams, preferably in the technology or Oracle ecosystem is a major plus.
- Strong understanding of B2B sales processes and lead lifecycle management
- Excellent research and analytical skills
- Solid written and verbal English communication skills (mandatory for US stakeholder interaction)
- Strong executive-level email drafting and outreach capabilities.
- Business acumen with the ability to understand client challenges and value propositions.
- Demonstrated prospecting and lead generation skills.
- Strong organizational and follow-up capabilities.
- Self-starter with a proactive, hunter-oriented mindset.
- Ability to work effectively with offshore and onshore teams.
Preferred Experience
- Experience in business development, inside sales, lead generation, or demand generation roles.
- Exposure to Oracle consulting, ERP, cloud solutions, managed services,
or enterprise technology services.
- Understanding of consulting services sales and solution positioning.
- Familiarity with one or more of the target industries listed above.
Technical Skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
- LinkedIn Sales Navigator or similar prospecting tools is a plus.
- CRM experience is beneficial but not required. Salesforce experience is not required for this role.
Personal
- Should be approachable, should be flexible at work, Graveyard shift hours coverage on a need basis.
- Should understand business objectives and organization structure.
- The candidate must have strong work ethics, trustworthiness, and self-confidence.
- The candidate should work accurately with good attention to detail by maintaining confidentiality and integrity.
- Ability to work under pressure to achieve the multiple daily deadlines
Preferred Skills
Job
- Experience with Oracle cloud products is a plus.
- Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Marketing, IT, or a related field
- Leadership skills and the ability to mentor junior team members, gradually.
- Experience in proposal management and RFP/RFI processes
- Familiarity with sales enablement tools and marketing automation platforms
Personal
- The candidate must have strong work ethics and trustworthiness.
- The candidate must have leadership capabilities and create a working environment where the team wants to work for the leader.
- The candidate should work accurately with attention to detail by maintaining confidentiality and integrity.
- Must be highly collaborative and team oriented with commitment to excellence.
- Ability to work under pressure to achieve the multiple daily deadlines for client deliverables
Other Relevant Information
Associate is expected to be working from Office as per WFO policy.
📌 Manager/Senior Manager - Oracle Business Development (India)
🏢 The Hackett Group
📍 India