Senior Oracle Project Manager

Senior Oracle Project Manager, £600 p/d outside IR35:

We are seeking a Senior Oracle Project Manager, to join an exciting client's team on a temporary basis for a 6 month plus contract. You will need to have proficient communication skills, someone who also has previous experience working on an oracle fusion programme. As a Project Manager your prime responsibility will be to ensure that the project produces the required products within the specified tolerances of time, costs, quality, scope, benefits, and risk. The project manager is also responsible for the project producing a result capable of achieving the benefits defined in the business case.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that the core elements of project management are being deployed consistently including project planning, resource management, risk and issue management, dependency management, assumptions, and stage gate exit conditions
• Supporting the adoption of best project management practices and methodologies across the Oracle Programme through their implementation, while ensuring consistency and adherence to the governance structures
• Designing and producing the plans, including the high-level plan, detailed project plan and stage plans. The role includes facilitation of project planning workshops in conjunction with the workstream team and the wider stakeholders, as appropriate
• Seeking agreement with the workstream and lead the implementation of corrective actions, when the plans are at risk of being off track
• Prepare exception reports and change control requests
• Support workstream delivery teams through mentoring and coaching techniques
• Ensuring that an effective risk and issue management and analysis process is deployed
• Working with the workstream leads to develop strategies to ensure that the risks and issues are identified and managed before they magnify and are escalated through the governance structures
• Ensure that the programme data is being captured accurately and consistently to produce programme reporting
• Report on the project status consistently and effectively.
• Provide feedback on project status and progress
• Produce workstream highlight reports in a timely manner, with responsibility for gathering key performance data and status reports from workstream leads and team members
• Ensure that the key programme documents are produced and maintained to support sustaining the business change and building an enduring organisation

Essential Skills Required:

• Strong Stakeholder Management skills
• A degree level qualification with PRINCE2 or equivalent certification
• Over seven years' experience in project management of complex technology enabled transformation projects/programmes
• Strong grasp of Project Management principles, processes, and practices
• Experience of matrix working
• Strong communicator and proficiency in business documentation
• Formal Programme Management or Project Management qualification
• Proficient in MS Project
• Proficient in using PowerPoint, Excel, Word
• Ability to work independently
• Innovative in the application of project and programme management methodologies with output and outcome focus, without a theoretical approach

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