Senior Project Manager

An experienced consulting professional Oracle consulting is helping leading organizations around the world in the areas of Digital Transformation. We transform Business and Technology landscape to accommodate the realities of doing business in today's global environment. To accelerate this transformation, we are looking for Project Managers to manage the delivery of Oracle Consulting's Professional Services implementations of the Oracle Cloud Applications (SaaS).

Project Manager within Consulting: The Project Manager role is a challenging, exciting opportunity for you to manage full lifecycle Cloud Implementations while using Oracle's True Cloud Methodology (TCM). In this role you will manage multiple cloud projects and be responsible for the successful delivery of those projects on-time, on-budget and ensure reference customer. This is an incredible opportunity to help drive the strategy and successful execution of complex projects

The Project Manager will be responsible for planning customer specific engagements, managing the business requirements, development, review and sign-off process, managing the execution of deliverables while controlling scope, executing the change management process when needed, and ensuring timely resolution of discrepancies and project roadblocks.
 

You will work with leaders in Oracle Consulting, Development and Support focused on Oracle's Cloud products.

Responsibilities:

    Be passionately customer-focused; relentlessly pursue providing an excellent customer experience every time.    
    Establish, maintain and deepen client relationships by providing results and exceeding expectations.
    Plan, manage and communicate the progress of projects, achieving project milestones and maintaining project momentum for on-time, on-budget delivery
    Successfully lead projects working effectively with client management, client business users, and IT organizations.
    Identify and effectively mitigate risks.
    Facilitate resolution of issues and roadblocks, escalate when appropriate.
    Communicate well with all stakeholders, internal and external, including project sponsors, project managers, and project team members.
    Work collaboratively with project delivery leads and project resources.
    Effectively manage scope, budget, timeline, resources, quality and customer satisfaction throughout the project.
    Maintain up-to-date knowledge of and compliance with Oracle internal processes and procedures
    Help to expand Oracle solution footprint in installed base of existing customers
    Present and promote the value of Oracle Consulting Professional Services to prospective customers.  
    Overall performance responsibility for managing scope, cost, schedule, and contractual deliverable, which includes applying techniques for planning, tracking, change control, and risk management, and revenue/cost forecast.
    Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer.
    Exercise creativity, independent judgment and business acumen in selecting methods and techniques.

Requirements:
   Over 15+ years of experience relevant to this position, including 8 years of project/program management experience of no less than 5 complete end-to-end implementation and/or upgrade ERP Fusion/Netsuite projects. 
   Minimum of 5 years' experience in a functional lead and/or solution architect role with deep domain knowledge of Oracle ERP applications and technology.
   Strong track record of project management of complex, and/or multi-pillar projects, implementation methodologies, project management tools e.g., MS Project, project estimation, project team management, client management and communications, and project and proposal leadership
   Strong influencing and negotiation skills to deal with internal stakeholders, customers and vendors.
   Preference will be given to candidates who have experience in Oracle Cloud Applications
   Strong competence in developing presentations required (MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel))
   Demonstrated leadership and time management skills
   Excellent communication (verbal and written), facilitation and interpersonal skills.
   Highly motivated and able to thrive in a fast-paced, high energy and demanding team-oriented environment (both with clients and within the organization)
   Flexible to travel
   Minimum of a Bachelor's degree, Advanced Degree like Masters is desirable