Principal | Senior Project Manager - Oracle

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We are seeking a Principal Project Manager to join our Oracle Practice who prides themselves on their outstanding delivery capability and stakeholder engagement skills, who can help us to deliver on our customer commitment to excellence.  This role must be based in Wellington.

We are ideally looking for someone who has previous Oracle Fusion implementation experience or similar large ERP implementations.

 
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.).

In alignment with our commitment to fostering a flexible and dynamic work environment, we have adopted a hybrid working approach that acknowledges the importance of in-person collaboration while recognising that the determination of your work location will be based on a range of factors to ensure both individual preferences and operational requirements are met.

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