Senior Project Manager

Inoapps; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions provider in Scotland is seeking an experienced senior project manager to lead complex Oracle projects. The ideal candidate has over 7 years of experience in project management, particularly with Oracle SAAS/EBS implementations, and possesses strong leadership and communication skills. This is a significant role with the opportunity to make a positive impact within an innovative team. Competitive salary and benefits offered.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years' Oracle SAAS / EBS Project Management experience.
• Led at least two end to end Oracle SAAS ERP / HCM implementation projects.
• Strong communication skills to all levels of the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Plan, control, and execute project requirements.
• Manage client and external supplier deliverables.
• Develop and execute effective communication strategies.

Skills

Project Management

Leadership

Communication Skills

Numerical Skills

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Industry Project Management certification

Tools

Microsoft Projects

Job description

Job Description

Inoapps is seeking an experienced senior project manager with directive leadership skills to be responsible for leading medium to large, complex, high value transformational Oracle projects, often impacting regional or global operations. As a Inoapps project manager, the candidate will be a business leader, who consistently delivers project governance and controls, exceeds targets, and creates innovative ways to deliver when presented with challenges. In this highly visible role, you have an excellent opportunity to make a significant and positive impact. Inoapps is an environment where creativity, invention, and discovery become reality each day. It is where bold, bright professionals like you can reach your full potential-and where you can help us reach ours.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities you will perform

Contract Project Management

• Plan, control, and execute project requirements following Inoapps' methodology to ensure both Inoapps and client business objectives are met, whilst adhering to Inoapps' governance and control procedures
• Work with Practice Leaders to staff the projects you are assigned and build a cohesive and effective project team through strong leadership, leading by example (behaviours), creating a collaborative working environment to maximize the team potential and manage performance issues where necessary
• Perform risk management planning, risk identification and mitigation
• Demonstrate critical thinking and strong problem-solving skills to accelerate the resolution of issues and escalations
• Support the integration of complex process and organizational change management into the delivery of the assigned projects
• Work with project team members (functional & technical) to define and document the tasks required and the critical path to successfully track delivery of your Oracle projects by producing and maintaining project documentation to the quality and standards required
• Manage client and external supplier deliverables, identifying and escalating where issues or delays have critical path and / or commercial impact

Commercial Management

• Participate in the creation of client Statements of Work (SoW) to ensure the details required to manage the project delivery are contained within the defined scope
• Own, track and accurately forecast project budget, for which you will use Oracle Analytics Cloud Service to track budget to actual to forecast.
• Communicate project status progress to Inoapps leadership and customer stakeholders, applying appropriate project governance, controls and ownership of issue resolution in order to maximize project profitability
• Ensure in-depth understanding of the SoW for assigned projects and ensure your project team deliver to the terms of the agreed contract, proactively identifying change, applying change governance, and driving margin growth
• Proactively protect Inoapps' commercial position by limiting exposure, managing within commercial authority and ensuring that information shared with any external parties represent the official views of Inoapps.

Stakeholder Management

• Deliver client management through building strong and trusted relationships with the customer where your expertise, experience and advice are valued, and working collaboratively with the customer to drive the project to deliver successfully, including identification / documentation of change requests
• Develop and execute timely and effective communication strategies, leading communications with the team and key stakeholders, including client C level stakeholders

Internal governance, project controls and practice contributions

• Adhere to Inoapps internal governance and control procedures
• Contribute to the practice development through harvesting material and building best practice project governance
• Evolving our implementation methodologies and wider knowledge sharing
• Provide support and mentorship to less experienced members of the practice to support development needs where required
• Identify and support growth initiatives, such as opportunities to upsell, supporting pre-sales activities, producing marketing material, promoting Inoapps within social media.

Qualifications

Essential

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
• Industry Project Management certification (Oracle Project Management or PMP certification preferred)
• Proficient in Microsoft Projects (and other Microsoft office tools)
• Strong numerical skills
• Strong communication skills to all levels of the organisation
• Adaptable and resilient

Experience

Essential

• Minimum 7 years' Oracle SAAS / EBS Project Management experience
• Professional Services delivery
• Commercial and customer management of an Oracle implementation project
• Led at least two end to end Oracle SAAS ERP / HCM implementation projects as a system integrator, including data migration
• Led at least one global implementation
• Led at least one multi-pillar implementation
• Management of remote, global project teams
• Successfully managed Fixed Price and Time and Materials contracts
• Owned and managed Oracle SAAS Environment plans
• Client facing pre-sales activities

Desirable

• Intermediate to advanced understanding of some of the business processes within an Oil & Gas, Engineering & Construction, Public Sector, or Manufacturing industry
• In addition to SI experience, having experience of managing Oracle projects customer-side
• Knowledge of, or experience in delivering Oracle Infrastructure technologies
• Knowledge of, or experience in the management of testing workstreams
• People and Performance Management of direct reports

About Us

We focus exclusively on delivering innovative Oracle On-Premises and Oracle Cloud applications and technology solutions for our clients, which deliver operational excellence and maximise the benefits of their Oracle investment. Choose Inoapps and we'll support you throughout your Oracle journey, working in partnership to deliver superior solutions with lasting value.