Senior Project Manager / Programme Manager – Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP

Role overview

Programme delivery

• Own the integrated programme plan, milestones, dependencies, and critical path.
• Drive delivery across functional, technical, data, and business teams; ensure deliverables have owners, deadlines, and completion criteria.
• Identify risks, resolve blockers, and establish recovery plans for delayed activities.

Partner and UAT management

• Drive implementation partner commitments; challenge missed deadlines, incomplete deliverables, and recurring delays.
• Track configurations, integrations, reports, defects, and technical dependencies; escalate issues and ensure corrective action.
• Lead UAT planning, governance, and readiness; monitor testing and defects, drive resolution and retesting, and secure formal business sign-off.

Data and business readiness

• Oversee data readiness, cleansing, validation, and mock migrations; coordinate work across business teams, IT, and the implementation partner.
• Ensure financial and operational reconciliation, business validation, and data-quality issue resolution before production go-live.
• Ensure key-user and end-user training, process readiness, access, roles, procedures, business decisions, and support functions are ready.

Cutover and governance

• Own the integrated cutover plan and lead rehearsals, readiness reviews, and execution governance.
• Assess readiness across UAT, defects, data, integrations, security, training, and operations; define go/no-go criteria and evidence-based recommendations.
• Lead production transition and immediate post-go-live stabilization as required.
• Maintain oversight of risks, issues, actions, dependencies, decisions, and change requests; communicate delivery status and escalate threats.

Required qualifications

• At least 15 years of experience in ERP implementations, project management, or enterprise transformation programmes.
• Proven experience as a Senior Project Manager, ERP Programme Manager, or equivalent delivery leader.
• Strong hands-on experience managing Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP implementations.
• Demonstrated ownership through UAT, data migration, cutover, production go-live, and stabilization.
• Experience managing external implementation partners and system integrators.
• Strong understanding of cross-functional ERP dependencies, integrations, data migration, testing, and deployment.
• Ability to recover delayed programmes, resolve blockers, drive accountability, and manage stakeholders.
• Strong decision-making, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Willingness to work 100% onsite in Dubai, UAE.

Oracle Fusion modules

• Experience across multiple Oracle Fusion Cloud modules is expected, including Oracle Fusion Financials, Procurement, Projects/Project Management, HCM, and Supply Chain Management.