Delivery Director; Oracle Unlimited – Enterprise

Position: Delivery Director (Oracle Applications Unlimited) – Enterprise Applications
Location: City of Edinburgh

Delivery Director (Oracle Applications Unlimited) – Enterprise Applications

Version 1 is looking for a Delivery Director to spearhead our Oracle Applications Unlimited portfolio—an opportunity that blends strategic influence, commercial ownership, and people leadership at scale.

Why This Role?

Impact at Scale

• Lead a team of 100+ consultants across the UK, Ireland, and India.
• Deliver mission‑critical services to over 70 enterprise customers.
• Own a portfolio worth £/€12 million, with full P&L responsibility.

Shape the Future of ASPIRE

• ASPIRE is Version 1’s flagship managed services model—value‑led, innovation‑driven, and customer‑obsessed.
• Be at the heart of this strategic pillar, driving continuous improvement and transformation across Oracle E‑Business Suite, People Soft, and JD Edwards.

Commercial and Strategic Influence

• Collaborate with commercial and bid teams to win new business and expand existing accounts.
• Lead on high‑stakes bids, pricing strategies, and customer presentations.
• Drive profitability and growth through sharp forecasting, margin management, and customer retention.

Inspire and Lead a World‑Class Team

• Manage a diverse, talented team across functional, technical, and DBA/OCI disciplines.
• Foster a culture of excellence, engagement, and innovation.
• Be a mentor, a strategist, and a champion of Version 1’s core values.

What You Will Bring

• Deep experience in Oracle Application Unlimited.
• Proven leadership in portfolio or programme management with budgets of £/€500k–3m+.
• A passion for customer success, commercial acumen, and the ability to lead under pressure.
• A growth mindset and a value‑add mindset to ensure double‑digit growth across the Oracle Applications Unlimited portfolios. You should be committed to continuous improvement, innovation, and driving measurable business growth.
• The expectation is not just to maintain current performance, but to actively seek out and deliver new value for both the business and its customers, ensuring sustained and significant portfolio expansion.

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 across the delivery team.

• A background in Oracle E‑Business Suite.
• 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 – will be required to forge relationships with other Portfolio Directors and the commercial team as examples.
• Ability to recruit and retain a strong team of consultants as well as resource planning and management.

Role Requirements

The role will be divided across three areas of responsibility – Customer Delivery, Commercial Growth and People Leadership.

Customer Delivery

You will have full accountability for the delivery of end‑to‑end customer engagements ensuring our customer is at the heart of everything we do, we understand their ways of working and that we deliver successfully for them.

You will likely spend a considerable amount of time engaged in customer forums (e.g., Steering Groups) and travel to customer sites from time to time and be accountable for the customer satisfaction scores and feedback.

Commercial Growth

You will work closely with commercial colleagues to build and support compelling proposals and customer offerings which will enable and support our continued growth ambition for the practice and deliver profitable outcomes.

You will have your own P&L and be accountable for that. You will take ownership of monthly and quarterly forecasting of team costs and project revenues, reviewing actual…