Principal Project Manager - Oracle

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities
 

• Lead large and complex projects with multiple streams (functional, technical, integrations, data, change, testing) and vendor partners.
• Own overall commercial performance– revenue, margin, forecasting, billing and cost management – and actively drive profitability and growth.
• Create and oversee program and project definitions, roadmaps, schedules, budgets and success measures, ensuring alignment to business case and strategic outcomes.
• Shape and review Statements of Work (SOWs), estimates and work breakdown structures, working closely with sales, solution architects and Oracle practice leads.
• Lead scope and commercial negotiations at an executive level, including change control, variations and contract clarification.
• Provide thought leadership and direction for Oracle delivery approaches, methods and tools, ensuring consistency and continuous improvement across the portfolio.
• Oversee cross-functional delivery teams, including senior project managers, workstream leads and cross-vendor teams, ensuring clear ownership, collaboration and accountability.
• Lead robust risk, issue and dependency management across programs or projects and related initiatives, ensuring proactive mitigation and transparent escalation.
• Coordinate dependencies with adjacent initiatives (e.g. CRM, HCM, data, integration or infrastructure programs) to ensure coherent end-to-end outcomes.
• Provide coaching, mentoring and oversight to project managers and delivery leads; review plans, risks and reports, and step in where escalation or recovery is needed.
• Contribute to pre-sales and bid activity – shaping delivery models, writing SOWs/approach sections, presenting to customers and helping close new opportunities.
• Champion change management, adoption and benefits realisation, working with business change teams to ensure Oracle solutions deliver tangible business value.

Skills & qualifications you will bring
 

• 10+ years’ experience in project management, including several large Oracle or enterprise application programs or projects; at least 3–5 years in a Senior/Principal PM or Program Manager role.
• Tertiary qualification in business, information technology, engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Formal project management certification (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP, Agile/Scrum) strongly preferred.
• Deep understanding of project and program management methodologies, governance, financial management and commercial constructs (T&M, fixed price, outcome-based, etc.).

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