Job Description
Oracle Lift is a multi-disciplined team of experts collaborating with Oracle’s presales, CAMs, Architects and cloud sales. The team operates at pace, through qualification, workload scoping, “go” or “no-go”, then delivery across multiple customers in parallel.
The Lift team contains technical specialists, technical delivery resources and project managers. This team is ready to engage with our customers – all household names you will have heard of. Are you ready to be the Project manager of this team?
Role Summary
Your mission will be to become the Project Manager of multiple parallel Lift implementations and orchestrate delivery from the delivery team by:
- Owning the delivery scope of a ‘first workload’ into a customer’s business
- Being the delivery ‘face’ of Oracle, managing delivery risks, issues, escalations, and delivery progress.
- Own the “delivery interlock” with the offshore team, architects, technical specialists, and the customer.
- Supporting cloud sales in positioning and selling of a ‘follow-on’ expansion project, and handing over to Oracle Consulting, partners, or In-house resources to deliver the expansion.
Tell me more?
Working as a project manager of multiple Lift projects you will be part of a small team of EMEA based project managers, collaboration with your peers and the leadership team will be critical to help define and shape your success.
On a day to day bases you will lead a number of concurrent deliveries, to grow a cloud business for Oracle. Typical Lift projects include DB or applications move to cloud, reporting, autonomous, machine learning, analytics, high performance computing projects.
You will be focused on customer success and consumption generation. You will have the gravitas to engage with senior leaders and discuss delivery and business challenges. You will be supported by an offshore or near shore team of deep delivery expertise.
Note there are multiple roles open, based around EMEA, each role working remotely with one or more countries.
What does a Lift delivery look like?
With opportunities provided by our cloud sales org, the implementation team will engage with the customer to ‘unpack’ the business challenge (for example Analytics) and the pre sales for an architectural scope. Our Lift offshore team will define a delivery plan that you will align with the customer’s expectations. It is likely you will have already been engaged and built a relationship with the customer during the “sales cycle”. Once sales agree the contract, you will manage resources and ensure they deliver a short sharp ‘WOW’ delivery experience for our customers in approx. 50days.
Career Level - IC4
Responsibilities
What do I need to be successful?
Be a leader, a ‘doer’, with a vision & desire to build a business with a technical project delivery focus and mentality.
- Bring entrepreneurial & innovative flare, with the tenacity to develop and prove delivery ideas independently, then share these as examples to improve the efficient of the delivery of these solutions across EMEA.
- Experience of rapidly deploying cloud solutions into business environments: Database, applications, reporting & analytics.
- Orchestration of project delivery teams to deliver successfully into customers, large and small.
- Working effectively across internal, external, culturally diverse, lines of business to define and deliver customer success.
Must be able to demonstrate.
- Orchestrate delivery across businesses by communicating, liaising, and negotiating using appropriate methods to ensure efficient project delivery.
- Ability to sanity check and take accountability for delivery scope.
- Manage internal and external stakeholder expectations and escalations.
- Present to external customer stakeholders and lead delivery team meetings.
Does all this sound exciting? are you ready to build the new? Come and talk to us!
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