Description
Sopra Steria Recruitment is working in partnership with a major public sector in the UK. We are currently recruiting Oracle Update Product Development Manager for 2 months initially with possible extension.
Requirement/Background:
- Client is looking to virtualise all applications to the Cloud. We require someone with experience of large virtualisation projects including experience of Oracle applications
Key Responsibilities/Duties:
The Product Delivery Manager will be required to support the Business outcome by:
- Managing the project to achieve strategic business objectives ensuring the optimisation of costs and benefits of the investment
- Manage the project ensuring delivery within agreed time, cost and quality constraints in support of the rolling change programme
- Build strong contacts and relationships throughout the organisation
- Developing effective working relationships with all customers; project teams, other business representatives and IT suppliers
- Managing a team of people in a Matrix management environment
- Lead reviews of existing the project making recommendations and assessing feasibility of potential projects
- Demonstrable coaching, development and knowledge transfer of skills to internal Technical Delivery Managers and other team members
- Working with Senior Technical Delivery Manager to influence technical direction
- Working with Resource Managers to plan out and secure resources
- Ensuring effective communication across the programme, working closely with other Delivery Managers and not operating in silos
- Sharing knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and customers
Key Knowledge and Skills:
- Proven experience of working on large scale virtualisation projects including experience of Oracle applications.
- A proven track record of enabling delivery of significant technical change initiatives in a large private or public sector organisation
- A broad understanding of change management and programme/project management approaches and techniques
- Experience of managing a team of technicians and analysts
- Demonstrable experience of playing a key role in a Programme/Project Office/Team
- Significant Project Management experience in a technical environment
- Essential Prince 2 Practitioner accreditation and/or other professional PM qualifications
- Ability and experience in forming effective relationships with senior stakeholders
- Strong leadership skills and considerable experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams as well as building strong relationships across organisational boundaries
- Experience of managing work and deliverables of internal and external suppliers
- Experience of working within a structured and an unstructured project delivery environment including agile and waterfall deliveries in a complex business and/or IT environment
- Good Planning and Control skills
- Good Listening and Communications skills
- Experience in Supplier Negotiation and Management
- Commercial Knowledge
- Risk and dependency management
- People development through coaching and mentoring
- Ability to adopts a flexible working style
Outputs/Deliverables to be achieved:
Product Delivery Managers will be required to deliver IT projects by:
- Producing verified work estimates
- Drafting the project governance plan and reaching agreement on governance arrangements for the technical delivery with stakeholders
- Completing project schedules and plans covering all technical activity and incorporating business and user contributions
- Preparing supplier proposals
- Integrating technical components with other project deliverables to ensure delivery of new and enhanced services
- Ensuring work is completed to deadlines and deliverables meet expectations
- Managing project expenditure by capturing actual work effort and costs and maintaining records in the project finance record
- Defining and agreeing work packages
- Developing and delivering prototype solutions
- Producing progress reports, highlight reports and exception reports
- Completing project schedules covering all technical activity and integrating technical components with other project deliverables
- Identifying and managing project technical risks and inter work stream dependencies
- Integrating technical components with other project deliverables
- Ensuring that other project deliverables are produced when required and are reviewed and agreed.