Delivery Director (Oracle Applications Unlimited) – Enterprise Applications

Version 1 has celebrated over 26 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. We’re also an award-winning employer reflecting how employees are at the heart of Version 1. We’ve been awarded: Innovation Partner of the Year Winner 2023 Oracle EMEA Partner Awards, Global Microsoft Modernising Applications Partner of the Year Award 2023, AWS Collaboration Partner of the Year - EMEA 2023 and Best Workplaces for Women by Great Place To Work in UK and Ireland 2023.

As a consultancy and service provider, Version 1 is a digital-first environment and we do things differently. We’re focused on our core values; using these we’ve seen significant growth across our practices and our Digital, Data and Cloud team is preparing for the next phase of expansion. This creates new opportunities for driven and skilled individuals to join one of the fastest-growing consultancies globally.

Market leader in Oracle ERP and Cloud Applications Consulting, implementation, and support services ERP Partner of the Year &10 years as GPTW to work in Ireland & UK.

Step Into a Strategic Leadership Role at the Forefront of Oracle Enterprise Applications. Are you ready to lead a high-performing team, shape the future of managed services, and drive real business value for top-tier clients? 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?

• Lead a team of 100+ consultants across the UK, Ireland, and India.
• Deliver mission-critical services to over 30 enterprise customers.
• Own a portfolio worth £/€10 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. You’ll be at the heart of this strategic pillar, driving continuous improvement and transformation across Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, 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 Bring

• Deep experience in Oracle E-Business Suite and ERP transformation.
• 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.

This Isn’t Just a Job—It’s a Platform for Growth. As a senior leader, you’ll have a clear path to further progression within Version 1’s Enterprise Applications practice. You’ll be empowered to innovate, influence, and make a lasting impact—on your team, your customers, and the business.

Ready to lead with purpose and deliver with impact? This is your opportunity to join a company that’s growing fast, values its people, and is committed to making a real difference.

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.

What you will bring:

• 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 etc) 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 performance against forecast, understanding gaps and putting corrective measures in place, as appropriate and for achieving GP targets.

You will help lead a team of diverse professionals across Functional, Technical and DBA/OCI teams located in the UK, Ireland and India. You will ensure that we continue to have world class levels of engagement and that we are ensuring that our teams deliver excellently using our methodologies and accelerators and are suitably skilled.

Why Version 1?

• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance and leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development review.
• A large training budget for accreditations and educational assistance for courses relevant to your role.
• Version 1 Annual Excellence Awards & our ‘Call-Out’ platform where performance is called out and recognised.
• Moments that matter & our enhanced maternity & paternity leave policies for life’s journey.
• Our active ESG & CSR initiative allows you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion, and belonging schemes.
• Quarterly performance-related profit share.
• Certified Great Place to Work for 10 years in a row.
• Flexible mix of Remote/Hybrid working options.
• Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance plus many more exciting benefits.

This is hybrid based with occasional travel to your nearest base office.