Introduction
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Your Role And Responsibilities
Project planning & leadership: Lead a Team of Oracle Solution Architects, Consultants and Testers, acting as the Project Manager within a Project. Develop and Manage the delivery plan for your workstream in consultation with the Client PM.
Methodology: Follow the Methodology and Business Operating Model for your area. Lead and drive contribution to the Methodology and Business Operating Model for your area, participating in the development and maintenance of all documentation, templates and tooling.
Stakeholder management: Interact and influence Client Project Team stakeholders and assist them in taking key decisions for Oracle Implementation Programs.
Workshops & meetings: Plan and lead the delivery of Client-facing workshops and meetings, demonstrating significant domain knowledge and experience.
Documentation & deliverables: Create well-structured & accurate deliverables such as Project
Plans, status reports and other agreed governance documents. Lead the Team on followingmprocess and agreed Client quality requirements for deliverables including business processes documentation, design & configuration documents, specifications, Test Plans and other artefacts.
Commercial: Manage the time/budget allocation for your Projects based on agreed estimates and Project budget. Monitor own billable utilisation against target. Identify opportunities to increase own and Team utilisation. Manage Team plans and provide accurate forecasts and reports as required twice Monthly.
Quality management: Ensure quality standards are adhered to for your team and support in improving quality standards in the business.
Risk Management: Manage Project risks and issues relating to your Project, proposing mitigations where applicable and communicating risks to the Client and the Consulting Director in Monthly Project Reports.
Internal knowledge sharing/skills development: Share your knowledge, experience, and best practices within the team and your extended network. Contribute to or lead Professional Learning Communities relevant to your area of expertise. Proactively keep up-to-date and develop skills relevant to your area of expertise. Take the lead on understanding new ways of working and disseminating these to the wider Practice.
Sales/Business Development: Understand the products and services that Symatrix offers. During projects, identify and encourage the identification of opportunities to provide additional services and products that could be beneficial to the Client. Contribute to Sales processes e.g. responding to ITT, RFP, RFI's; participating in Sales Presentations; estimating and planning of relevant workstreams.
Practice Development: Proactively look for ways to drive Symatrix forward. Suggest ideas for innovation. Lead activities to develop the Consulting Team's capability and resources (e.g. processes, tools & collateral).
Line Management: Where required, line-Manage a small Team of Consultants or Project Managers ensuring regular check-ins, mentoring, development and other people-related processes.
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- MUST BE UK-BASED; the role cannot be carried-out from outside the UK
- MUST have eligibility for UK Government Security Clearance at SC Level (please familiarise yourself with the eligibility requirements prior to applying)
- Has excellent knowledge and implementation experience of Oracle HCM Cloud, including multiple demonstrable examples of delivering large-scale Oracle Projects. Projects must include Oracle Cloud HCM
- Has strong Client-facing / Consultancy experience and can build strong lasting relationships
- Has proven, full lifecycle Implementation experience of delivering Oracle based HCM solutions to medium and large Enterprise clients
- Has strong commercial awareness
- Has excellent presentation skills
- Is well organised and structured in approach
- Has strong written and verbal communication skills
- Has excellent Client-Management skills
- Is emotionally intelligent and compassionate, encourages a culture in which every team member can be themselves and thrive at Symatrix.
- Has a motivation to ensure that Symatrix continues to grow and improve
- Willingness to travel and be away from home
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
- Experience of working on implementations including HR Helpdesk, Performance & Goals Management, Recruiting Cloud, Learning Cloud, Talent Review & Succession Planning, Benefits, Workforce Compensation and Time & Labor and ERP modules such as Finance, SCM, EPM related modules.
- Experience working in an environment alongside other Oracle Cloud products such as: Service Cloud (CX), ERP (Finance & Procurement), Planning & Budgeting (EPM)
- Experiencing Implementing HR Helpdesk, Performance & Goals Management, Recruiting Cloud, Cloud Learning, Talent Review & Succession Planning, Benefits, Workforce Compensation and Time & Labor
- Experience of supporting Pre-sales activities, including responding to ITT/RFPs
- Experience of Higher Education or central government customers"
