PPM Lead

IBM•Manchester, England, UK

fulltime

Other

10+ years

About the role

Introduction At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.

A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You’ll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We Offer

Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

Your Role And Responsibilities As a Principal Consultant working as an integral part of a project team, you will lead all phases of the consulting lifecycle. You will play a key customer-facing role and be responsible for Requirement Analysis, Business Process Documentation & Solution Design. You will lead and support your peers to develop, configure and deploy the solution, and ensure project processes and deliverables in your area are met. In addition to project related activities, you will also contribute to proposal development, demonstrating the application to potential customers and play an important role in building our Oracle Cloud capabilities and offerings.

As an experienced consultant leader you will be a self-starter and have strong functional skills in the implementation of Oracle PPM Cloud, backed up by proven hands-on experience, ideally across different industries. You will have the ability to work under pressure and must be able to communicate effectively with customer stakeholders.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to be part of our premier consulting firm working on the cutting edge of Cloud Implementations.

Preferred Education Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

10+ Years of functional experience delivering Oracle PPM Cloud Applications
Multiple full Oracle Cloud Implementations cycles
Demonstrated experience in Solution Design, Requirements Analysis, Functional Design Configuration Documentation, Troubleshooting and Integration Architecture
Experience working with technical teams for Interface design, development and testing
Ability to multi-task and to work independently
Strong client facing, communication and client management skills
A strong knowledge of Application Implementation methodologies
Demonstrable functional skills in:

Project Foundation
Project Costing
Project Billing

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

Track record of working with technical teams for Interface design, development and testing.
Strong domain knowledge of

Oracle Time & Labor
Oracle Procurement
Oracle GL, AP and AR
Oracle Cloud Implementation Certification(s).

Proven experience in Oracle Cloud Implementations and integrating them with other on premise or cloud applications.
A strong architectural understanding of the broader Oracle Cloud functional areas e.g. Supply Chain, HCM and Payroll, CX, Logistics.
Excellent knowledge of the reporting and analytical tools available as part of Oracle Cloud.
Experience in pre-sales activities such as contributing to proposals, conducting Proof of Concepts & Configuring Sand-box environments for functional demonstrations.

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