Senior Project Director

We are seeking a Senior Project Director to lead the delivery of large-scale, multi-country Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP implementations for our global clients.

This is a senior delivery leadership role within our Oracle Practice, accountable for program P&L, client satisfaction, and delivery quality across engagements that typically span multiple years.

You will act as the senior delivery executive on strategic accounts , the trusted advisor to the client's CIO/CFO, the escalation point for our delivery team, and the commercial owner of the engagement.

Key Responsibilities

Engagement Delivery & Program Leadership

• Serve as Engagement Director / Program Director on one or more concurrent Oracle Fusion ERP rollouts, accountable for end-to-end delivery across all phases (Discover, Design, Build, Test, Deploy, Hypercare).
• Own the master program plan, critical path, and milestone commitments across all workstreams (Finance, SCM, Procurement, Technical/Integrations, Data).
• Drive adherence to Oracle Cloud implementation methodology (e.g., OUM / Oracle True Cloud Method).
• Chair steering committees and provide executive-level status reporting to client sponsors; manage scope, change requests, and expectation alignment.
• Lead Go/No-Go decisions, cutover planning, and hypercare exit criteria for each country wave.

Commercial & P&L Ownership

• Manage scope creep and change control rigorously; price and negotiate Change Orders with client procurement.
• Lead/support pursuit teams on proposals, RFP responses, solution shaping, and estimating for new Oracle Fusion opportunities.
• Identify and drive add-on revenue (extensions, additional country waves, managed services, advisory).
• Manage subcontractor and offshore team cost (e.g., Oracle, data migration tooling, testing partners).

Client & Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary senior relationship owner for client executives; build and sustain C-level trust.
• Navigate client politics and conflicting regional priorities, balancing global template standardization against local legal/statutory needs.
• Manage difficult conversations: delivery slippage, budget overruns, resource changes, and scope disputes , with a solutions-oriented approach that protects both the relationship and the firm's margin.

Team & Practice Leadership

• Lead large, matrixed delivery teams of [50+] consultants, including onshore/offshore/nearshore resources and client-side staff.
• Mentor and develop Project Managers, Engagement Managers, and functional/technical leads; contribute to succession planning in the practice.
• Partner with Resource Management to staff engagements, resolve utilization conflicts, and manage bench/ramp decisions.
• Contribute to practice assets: delivery accelerators, estimation models, reusable templates, and lessons-learned libraries.
• Support capability building, hiring, and performance management within the Oracle practice.

Risk, Quality & Delivery Assurance

• Own risk and issue management at the engagement level; escalate appropriately to firm leadership and client sponsors.
• Ensure delivery quality standards, testing rigor (SIT/UAT), and documentation compliance.
• Lead recovery efforts on troubled engagements (or support them as a delivery assurance lead) where required.
• Ensure compliance with firm policies on contracting, risk, data privacy, and independence.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience: 20+ years in consulting/IT services delivery, with at least 6–8 years leading large-scale Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP implementations on the system integrator or consulting side.
• Global Rollouts: Demonstrated track record delivering multi-country, multi-wave ERP programs for global clients , ideally across multiple continents and legal entities.
• Methodology: Deep familiarity with Oracle Unified Method (OUM) / True Cloud Method and/or equivalent ERP delivery frameworks. PMP / PRINCE2 / Agile certifications preferred.
• Module Breadth: Working knowledge of Oracle Fusion modules (Financials, Procurement, SCM) and technical components (OIC, reporting, data migration).
• Executive Presence: Strong CxO-level communication, negotiation, and influence skills.
• Team Leadership: Experience leading blended onshore/offshore teams of 50+ across multiple time zones.