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Job Specifications

Job Title: Oracle Fusion Cloud Planning and RAIDS Manager

Location: London or Abbey Wood, UK

Job Type: Full-time contract, Until 31st March 2026 but likely for extension

Our ambition is to:

• Enhance user experience through simplified processes, intuitive systems, and responsive support.

• Enable data-driven decision-making using Oracle ERP, HCM, and EPM technologies, integrated analytics, and AI.

Role:

• The programme planner will work with the central programme delivery team to develop and build workstream specific programme plan in full alignment with the overall integrated programme plan

• The role will involve working with the workstream programme directors to establish, maintain and actively use workstream plans to manage and control workstream and overall programme delivery. This will include documenting key milestones, programme and workstream dependencies, assumptions and constraints and produce all reference documentation. The role will produce weekly progress against the plan for their respective workstreams and report to the central planning team on deviations and their impact

• The role will work on RAIDS with respective RAIDS managers and ensure that risks and dependencies are managed from delivery schedule angle and pro-actively highlight schedule variances

• The role will produce change impact assessment from schedule and plan perspective as part of regular change control process

• The role will develop, maintain, and manage plan on a page as well as detailed MSP plan and ensure alignment of planning elements within JIRA and MSP plans

• The role will ensure that all planning confirms the overall objectives, scope, high level deliverables/product (including acceptance criteria) and stage gate exit criteria for the programme and workstreams

• The role will ensure that there is a consistent use of forecasting and estimating methodologies that ensure high degree of accuracy and enables the programme office to analyse, track and report actual delivery against time, cost, and quality metrics. This will support the continuous improvement of planning methodologies tools and support to the programme and workstream teams

Skills and Experience:

• Delivery credibility: Ability to demonstrate detailed structured planning capability with light touch guidance from the portfolio programme delivery management

• Stakeholder leadership & influencing: Strong interpersonal skills, awareness and discipline to be able to understand and operate in a complex and ambiguous stakeholder environment, working with disparate and diverse teams convincing them of individual value addition to their work

• Specialist Knowledge: Significant knowledge and experience in programme planning to identify work packages and detail the same within a complex and large Oracle Fusion Cloud end-to-end implementation programme

• Fusion Cloud Implementation Methodology: Sound understanding of Oracle Fusion Cloud implementation methodologies and phase wise delivery steps with the ability to understand cross workstream dependencies

• Planning Tools: Highly proficient in developing MSP plans of significant complexity from a zero base without extensive handholding. Proficient user of JIRA to ensure JIRA structures are aligned to the overall programme MSP plan and delivery responsibilities. Demonstratable ability to keep JIRA and MSP plans always aligned within the agreed time bucket of one to two weeks

• Accountability and Reporting

The role reports to the central programme management lead with a dotted line responsibility to the respective workstream programme director

Typical Role Profile:

• Candidates for this role will come from system implementation partners of Oracle Fusion Cloud with highly significant planning and RAID management capability

• Candidates will be senior Oracle Fusion Cloud programme planners with experience of RAID management

• Client-side implementation supervision experience and Oracle Fusion Cloud upgrade programme experience in will not be the right experience for this role

• This is not a pure planner role within any transformation programme. It is not a plan or RAID administration or reporting role either. The role needs active management experience of planning and RAID management

• General programme management or PMO administration experience will not be the right experience for this role

• Although planning and plan management is the key responsibility for this role, sound experience of RAID management is also essential

Essential Qualifications/Experience:

• A degree level qualification (essential)

• Over ten years’ experience in complex ERP enabled transformation programmes with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in Oracle Fusion Cloud implementation programmes of over £25 million annual budget (essential)

• Highly proficient in the use of project planning software e.g., MS Project Professional plan and proficient in agile software development and implementation tools e.g., JIRA (esse

About the Company

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