Highstreetit The Senior Project Manager manages day-to-day delivery of a full life cycle Oracle Cloud implementation for a public sector K-12 client. This includes managing project plans, resources, budget, risks, and client communication.
Responsibilities
Manage the project through all phases of the Oracle Cloud implementation, including planning, design, build, testing, deployment, stabilization, and transition to post-go-live support.
Develop, maintain, and manage the integrated project plan, work breakdown structure, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and critical path.
Manage onshore and offshore project resources, including staffing plans, assignments, workload, utilization, performance, and delivery commitments.
Own project financial management, including budget, forecasts, resource costs, invoices, revenue, margin targets, and analysis and resolution of variances.
Manage scope and change control, including documenting impacts to schedule, resources, budget, and contractual commitments and coordinating required approvals.
Identify, track, and manage project risks, issues, assumptions, and decisions; develop mitigation and corrective-action plans and escalate appropriately to the Project Director, Project Executive, or PMO.
Lead project governance activities, including status meetings, workstream reviews, executive and steering committee reporting, decision tracking, and adherence to Highstreet methodology and PMO standards.
Coordinate functional, technical, integration, data, testing, change management, training, and deployment workstreams to ensure dependencies are understood and deliverables are completed on time and with appropriate quality.
Serve as the primary day-to-day client contact and build strong relationships with client project leadership, stakeholders, and workstream leads.
Communicate project health, accomplishments, upcoming activities, budget status, risks, issues, and decisions clearly to client and internal audiences.
Monitor deliverable quality and readiness and ensure that acceptance criteria, reviews, approvals, and documentation are completed.
Support proposals, statements of work, estimates, and sales activities as needed, and identify opportunities for additional services through the appropriate sales and leadership channels.
Qualification
Proven stakeholderStrong analyticalSLED experienceEMPLOYMENT TYPE / LOCATION / TRAVEL
Required
Experience leading functional and technical consultants across onshore and offshore teams and holding workstream leads accountable for outcomes.
Working knowledge of Oracle Cloud implementation phases, deliverables, dependencies, testing, data conversion, integrations, security, deployment, and stabilization. Hands-on functional or technical configuration experience is not required.
Strong executive presence and the ability to communicate project status and recommendations to client leaders, executive sponsors, steering committees, and internal leadership.
Proven stakeholder, conflict, escalation, and vendor management skills.
Strong analytical, organizational, prioritization, and decision-making skills, with the ability to adjust plans as priorities change.
Proven ability to deliver under pressure against timeline, budget, quality, and contractual commitments in a fast-moving consulting environment.
Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business, project management, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
PMP or another recognized project management certification.
SLED experience, particularly with public sector K-12 school systems or education clients.
Experience leading Oracle Cloud implementations that span Financials, HCM, Payroll, Procurement, Projects, EPM, or other related applications.
Experience working within a systems integrator or consulting environment and managing client-facing implementation teams.
Experience with structured Oracle Cloud implementation methodologies and enterprise PMO governance standards.