Consulting Project Principal Consultant

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The Restaurants Consulting Team, within the broader Consumer Industries pillar of Customer Solutions for Industries provide integrated software solutions to Hotels, Restaurants, Sports & Entertainment & Cruise ships. Customers worldwide depend on Oracle Point of Sales (POS) and Restaurant solutions to meet their complex business requirements, control operations, and provide superior customer service.

With today’s changing and competitive world, food and beverage organizations need to be more effective in business operations, this is where Oracle Integration, Cloud Solutions and Mobile platforms give companies the edge over their competitors. This is not just “Point of Sale” (POS), this is true business transformation. The Restaurants industry will change more over the next 5 years than it has over the last 20 years.

For the right candidate, this is an opportunity to be involved in changing the face of an industry.

What will you do? As Project Manager, working alongside one of our largest customers in North America, you will have dedicated responsibility for leading and managing an important enterprise project. The nature of this engagement means that although you will work directly for Oracle, mobilizing and managing the appropriate Oracle resources, you will be liaising and collaborating closely with the customer’s program and operational teams, to ensure successful deployment of Simphony across their estate. You will have the following key responsibilities:

• Defining, implementing, and managing a robust governance framework, with a regular cadence of both face to face and written executive level reporting (weekly and monthly)

• Developing and presenting project strategy and plans

• Identifying key actions and tasks, with robust weekly and monthly tasks and actions

• Managing and maintaining project(s) oversight of all Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies (RAID) for projects underway

• Ensuring robust accountability for all project financials

• Establishing a culture of high delivery standards

• Developing, maintaining, and managing robust resource plans

• Developing, maintaining, and managing a strong engagement with the customer’s program, operational and wider stakeholder

• Accountability for delivery success, measures and goals

• Management of project budgets

• You will be the face of Oracle – accountable and upholding and championing Oracle processes and methodologies

What skills do you need?

• 2+ years of relevant project management experience

• Proven track record of managing large complex projects preferably in restaurant technology/Point of Sale (POS) solutions

• Strong evidence of confident leadership

• Ability to interact at executive level both internally and with customers

• A strategic mind-set – maintain the long-term vision but also step into the tactical detail when required

• Highly organized, methodical, and logical in approach

• Customer centric in outlook and ethos

• Strong analytical and reporting skills – in order to be able to proactively, accurately ascertain project health/issues through hard and soft metrics

• Strong focus on risk and issues management and mitigations

• Experience working in a matrix environment, being a team player with the ability to think and work independently

• Strong verbal and written communication, negotiation, and influence skills

• Cope working under pressure whilst remaining professional, approachable, positive and focused

• Proactive – anticipating the customer needs and identifying and implementing solutions

• Ability to travel as required

What can we offer you? An opportunity to operate at project manager level and to be involved in true business transformation within Global Enterprise Customers. A competitive salary, benefits, etc.

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• Define and manage a robust governance framework with regular executive reporting
• Develop and present project strategies and plans
• Identify and track key weekly and monthly project actions
• Oversee project risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies (RAID)
• Ensure accountability for all project financials and budgets
• Establish and promote a high standard of delivery
• Develop and maintain comprehensive resource plans
• Build and sustain strong engagement with customers and stakeholders
• Drive accountability for project success and performance measures
• Champion and uphold Oracle processes and methodologies as the primary Oracle representative