Oracle Programme Manager

Version 1 has celebrated over 26 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Version 1 has several strategic technology partners including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems and Snowflake. We’re also an award-winning employer reflecting how employees are at the heart of Version 1.

We’ve been awarded: Innovation Partner of the Year Winner 2023 Oracle EMEA Partner Awards, Global Microsoft Modernising Applications Partner of the Year Award 2023, AWS Collaboration Partner of the Year - EMEA 2023 and Best Workplaces for Women by Great Place To Work in UK and Ireland 2023.

As a consultancy and service provider, Version 1 is a digital-first environment and we do things differently. We’re focused on our core values; using these we’ve seen significant growth across our practices and our Digital, Data and Cloud team is preparing for the next phase of expansion. This creates new opportunities for driven and skilled individuals to join one of the fastest-growing consultancies globally.

• UK & Ireland’s premier Oracle, Microsoft & AWS partner  
• Market leader in Oracle ERP and Cloud Applications  
• Consulting, implementation, and support services  
• 3200+ strong, €347m/£302m revenue business  
• ERP Partner of the Year & 10 years as GPTW to work in Ireland & UK  

Oracle Programme Manager

Would like you like the opportunity to expand your skillset further across, Oracle EBS, Oracle ERP Cloud and HCM Cloud?

In addition, the opportunity to progress to Delivery Director and upwards to Practice Head?

How would you like to join an award-winning Oracle Partner with over 700 dedicated Oracle consultants across the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, India and Slovenia who deliver Finance, Supply Chain and HR solutions that underpin digital transformation for our customers businesses?

Here at Version 1, we are currently in the market for an experienced Oracle Programme Manager to join our growing Enterprise Applications Practice.

You will have the opportunity to work with the latest cloud technology and work on projects across a multiplicity of sectors and industries.

Oracle Programme Manager

Job Description

As a Programme Manager, you’ll operate an environment where change is a constant. Our customers are demanding more agility from their Finance and HR systems to meet the evolving demands of their staff and customers alike and many of these are choosing to transform Finance and HR functions using Oracle Fusion Cloud.

For many, their Finance and HR systems are at the heart of their ability to run their business and make decisions about the future. Changing those systems and associated processes is usually complex, disruptive, critical, and necessary.

When we partner with our customers to deliver these programmes, you will be critical to the success of the projects and programmes from both the customer and Version 1 point of view, ensuring that the transformation journey is positive experience for everyone.

Oracle experience is NOT mandatory for this role. The role will suit you, if you have worked in Finance and\or HR transformation projects, with Oracle or other technologies such as SAP, Workday, Sage, etc.

This is an opportunity to join one of the leading Oracle Consultancies in Ireland & the UK, and the opportunity for the right candidate to further progress to Delivery Director \ Practice Director.

There are three major facets to strong Programme Management at Version 1 – you’re not expected to have all these criteria as there will be ample opportunity for career development in the role:

• Communication
• Planning and Organisation
• Change Management

Communication

You will:

• Set a clear vision and communicate this to your project/programme team(s), including customer project team members, motivating them to deliver on the vision and, ensuring that the teams understand the big picture and the part they play in it.

• Be known as a highly to effective communicator, regularly chairing, presenting, and participating in board level steering groups involving customer C-suite level executives. 
• Be a leader - managing your Version 1 team, ensuring that the teams are delivering the outcomes.  You’ll participate at Practice-level to ensure strong alignment across the different project teams e.g., for sharing resources and specialist skills.
• Control and report progress to the Steering Group/Sponsor, and internally within Version 1 senior stakeholders, ensuring that risks and issues are escalated appropriately.
• Be able motivate both Version 1 and customer teams to work together at pace, overcome obstacles and meet challenging deadlines.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders ensuring they are regularly briefed and have clarity on key timelines, events and resource asks.

Planning and Organisation

You will:

• Work with the customer to identify and agree the project scope, goals, milestones, dependencies, etc and secure the required resources (people and budget).
• Be proactive in identifying potential risks and issues and have a contingency plan in place to mitigate these and keep the project on track.
• Work with a globally dispersed team, in an onshore-offshore environment, ensuring alignment across everyone involved on your programme.
• Closely monitor and report on project budget, taking ownership for the P&L targets for your programme, and ensuring clear financial arrangements are in place for the programme.
• Develop well thought-out, achievable project plans underpinned by Version 1’s MAXIMISE project methodology. You must be able to demonstrate you have worked to a methodology.
• Clearly understand the dependencies on, and responsibilities of, external parties such as customers or 3rd party software providers, developing a plan to manage and report on them.
• Clearly articulate key project phases and stage gates, what will be required to achieve these and how this will be evidenced by the project team.

Change Management

You will:

• Be able to roll-out and land methodologies and approaches across large teams of consultants who will have taken disparate approaches in their past experiences.
• Be able to continuously manage a large team through complex, global change.
• Be a great listener and in-tune with what is going on day to day in your programmes and get ahead of problems, resolving them before they escalate.
• Be the key interface to our customers, helping them navigate the challenges and risks that are part of all transformative programmes – often it is the first time they have done such a transformation and you need to be their guide.
• Be willing to challenge the status quo in pursuit of a better outcome for both the customer and Version 1.
• Support pre-sales and business development opportunities.

You will have experience of:

• Leading projects and programmes within an ERP/HCM/EPM landscape
• Managing and motivating team of 25+ consultants
• Leading programmes and teams that may have resources in multiple countries.
• C-Suite level stakeholder management, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Ownership for financial outcomes on Fixed Price or T&M projects with budgets up to £/€5m
• Implementing strong governance and compliance frameworks (Gate Control, Status Reporting, Steering Forums, Design Authorities).
• Leading scope management with stakeholders and customers to align with business outcomes.
• Working to Project management methodology standards e.g., MSP or PRINCE2.

Why Version 1?

Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance and leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development review.

A large training budget for accreditations and educational assistance for courses relevant to your role.

Version 1 Annual Excellence Awards & our ‘Call-Out’ platform where performance is called out and recognised.

Moments that matter & our enhanced maternity & paternity leave policies for life’s journey.

Our active ESG & CSR initiative allows you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion, and belonging schemes.

• Quarterly performance-related profit share
• Certified Great Place to Work for 10 years in a row
• Flexible mix of Remote/Hybrid working options
• Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance plus 

This is an opportunity to join one of the fastest-growing Oracle ERP Consultancies in Ireland & the UK.

PLUS, many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.

Please note that you must have the legal right to live and work in the United Kingdom and you must be eligible for Security clearance. To be eligible you need to have lived in the UK for the last 5 years.

This is hybrid based with occasional travel to your nearest base office.

Ashley Billington, Talent Acquisition - Oracle ERP (Oracle Cloud - ERP, HCM, EPM)

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We are an equal opportunities employer. Please refer to our Diversity & Inclusion statement located at: Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging | Version 1 Careers.

Please note: We have an internal recruitment team and do not accept agency candidates. If you want to join the team here at Version 1, get in touch with us directly!