Consulting Project Technical Manager- Software Application implementations at Oracle

Job description

Working across Oracle, customer, partner, and systems-integrator teams, the Senior Project Manager establishes the delivery framework, drives accountability, manages project and commercial risk, and ensures engagements are delivered in accordance with contractual commitments and Oracle delivery standards. The role requires strong business judgment, executive communication skills, and the ability to lead multiple workstreams and stakeholders in a highly matrixed environment. The Senior Project Manager also contributes to business growth, team development, delivery standards, and continuous improvement across the consulting organization. Key Responsibilities Project Delivery & Governance • Lead complex enterprise implementation and consulting engagements through the full project lifecycle, from initiation and planning through deployment, stabilization, and closeout. • Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, deliverables, resource plans, communication plans, and governance structures. • Manage project scope, schedule, budget, quality, dependencies, assumptions, risks, issues, and change control. • Establish effective project governance, including status reviews, steering committee meetings, executive reporting, RAID management, decision tracking, and escalation processes. • Monitor project performance against contractual commitments and agreed delivery objectives and implement corrective actions when necessary. • Ensure project deliverables meet Oracle quality standards and customer acceptance criteria. • Identify project risks and issues early, evaluate alternatives, and drive timely resolution and escalation. Financial & Commercial Management • Own project financial performance, including budgeting, forecasting, revenue, margin, utilization, invoicing, expenses, and financial reporting. • Monitor project profitability and proactively address forecast variances, resource constraints, scope changes, and margin risks. • Ensure project activities remain aligned with contractual scope and commercial terms. • Lead or support change requests, scope adjustments, and associated commercial discussions. • Partner with Consulting leadership, Finance, Operations, and Sales to maintain accurate forecasts and project financial data. • Balance customer satisfaction, successful delivery, and financial performance throughout the engagement. Customer & Stakeholder Leadership • Serve as the primary delivery point of contact for customer project leadership and key stakeholders. • Build trusted relationships with customer executives, project managers, business leaders, partners, and systems integrators. • Manage customer expectations through proactive communication, transparent reporting, and disciplined issue and risk management. • Facilitate project reviews, steering committees, executive discussions, and critical decision-making forums. • Communicate complex delivery, business, and technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. • Maintain customer confidence throughout the engagement and support strong customer satisfaction and referenceability. Resource & Team Leadership • Lead cross-functional and geographically distributed project teams, including consultants, solution architects, technical resources, partners, and customer resources. • Define roles, responsibilities, priorities, deliverables, and accountability across the project team. • Identify project staffing requirements and coordinate resources to support delivery objectives. • Monitor resource utilization and capacity and proactively address staffing or scheduling constraints. • Provide direction, coaching, and mentoring to project team members. • Foster a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing project environment. Business Development & Consulting Practice • Partner with Consulting Sales and practice leadership during opportunity development, proposals, estimates, bid reviews, and implementation planning. • Assess delivery assumptions, risks, timelines, resource requirements, and commercial considerations for proposed engagements. • Identify project extensions, change opportunities, and additional customer needs and engage the appropriate sales and consulting stakeholders. • Contribute lessons learned, reusable assets, templates, delivery standards, and leading practices to the broader consulting organization. • Promote consistent use of Oracle methodologies, tools, governance standards, and project management practices. • Support continuous improvement and standardization of project delivery processes to improve quality, efficiency, predictability, and scalability. Required Qualifications • 8+ years of progressive project management, consulting, professional services, or enterprise technology implementation experience. • Demonstrated success leading complex enterprise software implementation or consulting engagements through the full project lifecycle. • Strong experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, resources, quality, risks, issues, dependencies, and change control. • Proven financial and commercial management experience, including forecasting, project margin, revenue, budgeting, invoicing, resource utilization, and financial risk management. • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams in a global, highly matrixed environment. • Strong customer relationship and stakeholder management skills, including experience working with senior management and executive stakeholders. • Demonstrated ability to establish and manage project governance, executive reporting, risk management, and escalation processes. • Strong business acumen, judgment, analytical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. • Excellent written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and executive communication skills. • Ability to manage multiple priorities and complex engagements while maintaining attention to financial, contractual, and delivery details. • Experience with enterprise project management, implementation, systems integration, or related technology delivery. • Ability to travel to customer locations as required. Preferred Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience. • PMP®, Agile, or equivalent project management certification. • Experience managing Oracle, Primavera, Construction & Engineering, or comparable enterprise software implementations. • Experience with project management, financial management, resource planning, scheduling, or business intelligence platforms. • Experience supporting consulting sales, proposals, statements of work, estimates, and change orders. • Experience managing engagements involving systems integration, data migration, business process transformation, or organizational change. • Experience mentoring project managers and contributing to consulting methodologies, templates, playbooks, or delivery standards. • Experience working with geographically distributed teams, customers, partners, and systems integrators. Key Competencies • Executive presence and customer leadership • Project and program governance • Financial and commercial acumen • Risk and issue management • Cross-functional leadership • Resource and capacity management • Contract and scope management • Structured problem solving • Decision-making and accountability • Negotiation and conflict resolution • Operational excellence and continuous improvement • Strong communication and stakeholder influence Disclaimer: Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements. Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only US: Hiring Range in USD from: $91,400 to $187,000 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity. Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following: 1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion 2. Short term disability and long term disability 3. Life insurance and AD&D 4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child) 5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts 6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits 7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match 8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation. 9. 11 paid holidays 10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours. 11. Paid parental leave 12. Adoption assistance 13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan 14. Financial planning and group legal 15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted. As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment. The Senior Project Manager is a senior delivery leader responsible for the successful execution of complex Oracle implementation and consulting engagements. This role owns overall project delivery, including scope, schedule, budget, financial performance, governance, resource coordination, risk management, quality, and customer satisfaction. Any Primivera Suite Products experience is a strong plus but must have software application implementation experience.

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Must-haves

Project Delivery & Governance
Lead complex enterprise implementation and consulting engagements through the full project lifecycle, from initiation and planning through deployment, stabilization, and closeout.
Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, deliverables, resource plans, communication plans, and governance structures.
Manage project scope, schedule, budget, quality, dependencies, assumptions, risks, issues, and change control.
Establish effective project governance, including status reviews, steering committee meetings, executive reporting, RAID management, decision tracking, and escalation processes.
Monitor project performance against contractual commitments and agreed delivery objectives and implement corrective actions when necessary.
Ensure project deliverables meet Oracle quality standards and customer acceptance criteria.
Identify project risks and issues early, evaluate alternatives, and drive timely resolution and escalation.
Financial & Commercial Management
Own project financial performance, including budgeting, forecasting, revenue, margin, utilization, invoicing, expenses, and financial reporting.
Monitor project profitability and proactively address forecast variances, resource constraints, scope changes, and margin risks.
Ensure project activities remain aligned with contractual scope and commercial terms.

Nice-to-haves

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
PMP®, Agile, or equivalent project management certification.
Experience managing Oracle, Primavera, Construction & Engineering, or comparable enterprise software implementations.
Experience with project management, financial management, resource planning, scheduling, or business intelligence platforms.
Experience supporting consulting sales, proposals, statements of work, estimates, and change orders.
Experience managing engagements involving systems integration, data migration, business process transformation, or organizational change.
Experience mentoring project managers and contributing to consulting methodologies, templates, playbooks, or delivery standards.
Experience working with geographically distributed teams, customers, partners, and systems integrators.
Key Competencies
Executive presence and customer leadership
Project and program governance
Financial and commercial acumen

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agile

Platform: oracle-cloud
Effort: medium

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401(K)

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