Oracle Fusion Project / Project Manager

Blackstone eIT; Dubai; On-site; AED 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackstone eIT is seeking an experienced Project Manager to own end-to-end Oracle Fusion Cloud delivery across multiple workstreams (Finance, HCM, SCM, Integrations, Data Migration, Reporting, Testing, Change). You will ensure on-time, on-budget, and within-scope outcomes with strong governance.

The role acts as the central point of control for planning, risk, stakeholder communication and escalation to Steering Committees, coordinating vendors and internal teams to land the programme

Qualifications

• Experience leading ERP/digital transformation projects.
• Oracle Fusion Cloud delivery across multiple modules preferred.
• Certification in project management is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver across Finance, HCM, SCM, Integrations, Data Migration and Reporting workstreams.
• Build and maintain the integrated project plan, milestones and critical path.
• Monitor progress and take corrective action on schedule slippage.
• Manage resources, dependencies, and vendor/partner coordination.
• Oversee scope, change control and impact assessments on time, cost and quality.
• Maintain RAID log and escalate blockers to Steering Committee.
• Lead governance cadence: status meetings, SteerCo reporting.
• Coordinate cross-workstream activities and data cutovers.
• Guide data migration, security, testing and cutover activities.
• Ensure go-live readiness and post-go live hypercare is executed.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Problem solving

Education

PMP

PRINCE2

Tools

MS Project

Jira

Azure DevOps

Smartsheet

Primavera

Job description

Role Purpose

Own end-to-end delivery of an Oracle Fusion Cloud implementation across multiple workstreams, ensuring it lands on time, within budget and scope, and with quality. The role acts as the central point of control for planning, risk management, governance and stakeholder communication.

Key Responsibilities

• Planning & Delivery Manage day-to-day project delivery across all workstreams (Finance, HCM, SCM, Integrations, Data Migration, Reporting, Testing, Change).
• Build and maintain the integrated project plan, milestones, critical path and delivery tracking.
• Track progress against agreed milestones and take corrective action on slippage.
• Manage resource plans, capacity and dependencies between internal teams, the SI partner and third-party vendors.
• Manage scope and change control, including impact assessment on time, cost and quality.
• RAID & Governance Own the RAID log (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies): identify, assess, assign owners, mitigate and close.
• Manage actions and decisions, and escalated blockers to the Steering Committee promptly.
• Run governance cadence: weekly status meetings, workstream leads meetings, SteerCo and PMO reporting.
• Coordinate cross-workstream activities (e.g. data migration testing cutover, integrations security reporting).
• Fusion-Specific Delivery Oversee project phases: requirements/fit-gap, configuration, build, SIT, UAT, training, cutover and hypercare.
• Manage delivery of data migration, integrations, security roles and reporting deliverables.
• Plan and control cutover, go-live readiness and go/no-go decisions.
• Manage quarterly Oracle release impact and regression testing during the project.

Stakeholders, Vendors & Finance

Act as the main point of contact for business stakeholders, executives and the SI partner. Monitor SI/vendor performance against contract, SOW and deliverable acceptance. Track budget, forecasts and burn rate; support invoicing and milestone payments. Produce clear status reports, dashboards and executive summaries.

Quality & Change

Ensure quality gates, test exit criteria and sign-offs are met. Work with the change and training leads to ensure business readiness and adoption. Capture lessons learned and support handover to BAU/support teams.

Experience & Background

8-12 years of project/programme management experience in enterprise ERP delivery. Delivered 3+ full Oracle Fusion Cloud implementations end-to-end (ideally including at least one multi-module programme). Strong track record in project planning, milestone tracking and delivery governance. Hands-on experience managing RAID, dependencies, actions and escalations. Experience managing SI partners and multi-vendor delivery. Strong stakeholder management and communication at senior level. Solid understanding of the implementation lifecycle (Oracle AIM/OUM, agile or hybrid). Desirable Experience with data migration, integration and cutover planning. PMP, PRINCE2, PMI-ACP or equivalent. Oracle Fusion certification or strong functional familiarity with at least one pillar (Finance, HCM or SCM). Experience with tools such as MS Project, Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet or Primavera.

Key Competencies

• Ownership and accountability
• Structured problem solving
• Negotiation
• Ability to work under pressure
• Clear written and verbal communication

Success Measures

On-time milestone delivery, budget adherence, RAID health (no aged critical items), quality of go-live (defect trends, cutover success) and stakeholder satisfaction.