Oracle Project Manager

Our client is looking for a Project manager with good Oracle upgrade projects experience. Ideally, Project Managers with experience in EBS or HR systems would be desirable.

Responsibilities:

* Effective management of the project baseline.

* Defines the project requirements, ensuring that the requirements catalogue traceability matrix is complete.

* Manages the agreement process of the project requirements and objectives with the Project Board or appointed project assurance role. Operates along with the working practices ensuring compliance with local project management policy and procedure.

* Manages the production of the required products and the delivery of the project in partnership with the customer and business unit to ensure acceptance, closedown and handover to service.

* Manages the delivery of the project/multiple projects in partnership with the customer and business line to ensure acceptance, closedown and handover to service.

* Operates within defined working practices, ensuring compliance with local project management policy, procedure and methodology where this is in place.

* Gathers status reports of team members across their projects and addresses issues as appropriate.

* Establishing and reporting project Key Performance Indicators to the Project Board through Highlight Reports and stage assessments.

* Manages business and project risks and produces an effective plan and risk assessment so that timescales and project costs are understood and underwritten by all by the parties.

Skills and Experience:

• Sound knowledge of the software upgrades (in the Cloud and on premise).
• Experience of dealing with global development teams (specifically India).
• Methodical approach implementation with experience in:
  • Integration Testing
  • User Testing
  • Test Environment builds
  • Promotion of Code from Test to Pre-production and Production environment.
• Experience in Oracle Forms would be a distinct advantage.
• Some site visits may be called for (receipted expenses will be reimbursed).
• Excellent Customer communications skills, ensuring the Customer and the support teams are kept informed at all times through the process.
• Excellent team player, working with the Engineering teams and the wider programme team.

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