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Project Management Practice Director

Oracle has an outstanding track record for delivering business value in the communications industry. Only Oracle offers packaged software solutions that deliver end-to-end support for the key business processes for communications companies, from service creation, offer management, and order orchestration, through provisioning and service delivery, to billing, revenue assurance, and reporting.

Oracle Communications Global Business Unit (CGBU) represents Oracle in the communications industry. Oracle CGBU is responsible for the development, marketing, sales and consulting for Oracle Communications specific products, and leads Oracle’s strategy in the communications industry.
The Oracle Communications portfolio consists of the following products:

- Billing & Revenue Management
- Order & Service Management
- Inventory Management
- Service Activation
- Configuration Management
- Network Charging and Control
- Service Delivery Platform

We seek an experienced individual to lead our group of Consulting Project Managers in our Communications Business, taking responsibility for the project management of consulting services to the communications market via our Oracle Communications Consulting (OCC) Organisation.

In return we offer the chance to help lead the communications strategy of one the largest and most visionary software organisations in the industry.

Scope
Direct Line Management of OCC-EMEA Project Managers and Project Revenue Manager
Ownership and responsibility of OCC-EMEA Project Management activities
Reports to the Regional VP for Oracle Communications Consulting EMEA
Acts as a member of the OCC EMEA Consulting Management Team to deliver the overall practice plan for the group
Works with Sales, Development, other Oracle service-lines and selected Partners

Responsibilities
General
Providing leadership for the Project Management Practice by setting direction, shaping the practice, and articulating and exemplifying required behaviours
Defining a plan for the project management practice within the overall OCC EMEA business plan
Managing the practice operationally to meet its targets, as set through the management team
Executing best practice Project Management to execute successful projects, with the right project resources at the right time and right cost
Providing policy guidelines for developing project risk mitigation strategies
Communicating regularly and personally to all practice members
Building effective working relationships with designated partner organisation(s)
Actively seeking opportunities to develop best practice across practice boundaries, and contributing to the development of consulting practices as a whole

Project Management Governance
Enable and promote successful project delivery
Manage projects delivery to budget
Enable and manage scope discipline
Enhancing bid management capabilities
Actively support the sales cycle to close new consulting business
Ensure the latest methodologies are implemented and tailored for best practice delivery of CGBU projects
Project Manager Development
Ensuring that the practice recruits, develops, motivates, appraises, rewards and deploys staff in a manner that meets business priorities
Competence, capability and skills development
Career/professional development
Programme Management
Senior project management coverage and supervision for large complex projects, including project Steering Committees
Growing project management capabilities towards strategic project ownership,
Engagement Satisfaction Management
Go-Live and Project Success Reporting
Project Forecasting and Project Revenue Management
Prioritize quarterly revenue objectives for all projects
Review managers' forecasts of utilisation, revenue and margin and ensure corrective action is taken
Consolidate financial and utilisation information in order to provide regular and accurate management information

Experience
Extensive experience in best practice project and practice management
Knowledge of the communications industry from a consulting perspective
Must have experience of building and leading consulting teams
Ideally, knowledge of the Oracle Comms footprint and solution stack.
Ideally, experience of working across countries in and have the understanding of different cultures
English speaking

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