Role Title: Senior Programme Planner (Oracle Fusion Cloud)
Overview
A Senior Programme Planner is required to support a large, complex corporate services transformation spanning Finance, HR, Commercial, Technology, and Shared Services. The role focuses on hands‑on planning and RAID management within a major Oracle Fusion Cloud implementation.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain detailed workstream plans aligned to an integrated programme plan.
- Work with workstream leads to manage milestones, dependencies, assumptions, and constraints.
- Track weekly progress, highlighting variances, impacts, and recovery actions.
- Actively manage schedule‑related RAID and support formal change control with impact assessments.
- Maintain both high‑level “plan on a page” views and detailed MS Project plans, aligned with JIRA.
- Ensure plans align to agreed scope, deliverables, acceptance criteria, and stage‑gate criteria.
- Apply consistent forecasting and estimating methods to track delivery against time, cost, and quality.
Skills & Experience
- Strong delivery credibility in complex programme planning roles.
- Significant experience planning large‑scale Oracle Fusion Cloud end‑to‑end implementations.
- Solid understanding of Oracle Fusion Cloud implementation methodology and cross‑workstream dependencies.
- Expert MS Project user (from zero base) with strong JIRA experience and plan alignment discipline.
- Confident stakeholder engagement across complex, multi‑supplier environments.
- Proven hands‑on experience managing both planning and RAID (not PMO or reporting‑only).
Essential Requirements
- Degree‑qualified.
- 10+ years’ experience in complex ERP‑enabled transformation programmes.
- 5+ years on Oracle Fusion Cloud implementations (£25m+ budgets).
- Advanced MS Project and strong agile tool (e.g. JIRA) experience.
- Excellent communication, analysis, and governance‑level reporting skills.
- Able to work independently, under pressure, and manage competing priorities.
Security Clearance
- Active SC clearance preferred; SC‑eligible candidates may be considered.