Oracle Fusion Cloud Planning and RAIDS Manager

Role Title: Senior Programme Planner (Oracle Fusion Cloud)

Overview
A Senior Programme Planner is required to support a large, complex corporate services transformation spanning Finance, HR, Commercial, Technology, and Shared Services. The role focuses on hands-on planning and RAID management within a major Oracle Fusion Cloud implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain detailed workstream plans aligned to an integrated programme plan.

• Work with workstream leads to manage milestones, dependencies, assumptions, and constraints.

• Track weekly progress, highlighting variances, impacts, and recovery actions.

• Actively manage schedule-related RAID and support formal change control with impact assessments.

• Maintain both high-level “plan on a page” views and detailed MS Project plans, aligned with JIRA.

• Ensure plans align to agreed scope, deliverables, acceptance criteria, and stage-gate criteria.

• Apply consistent forecasting and estimating methods to track delivery against time, cost, and quality.

Skills & Experience

• Strong delivery credibility in complex programme planning roles.

• Significant experience planning large-scale Oracle Fusion Cloud end-to-end implementations.

• Solid understanding of Oracle Fusion Cloud implementation methodology and cross-workstream dependencies.

• Expert MS Project user (from zero base) with strong JIRA experience and plan alignment discipline.

• Confident stakeholder engagement across complex, multi-supplier environments.

• Proven hands-on experience managing both planning and RAID (not PMO or reporting-only).

Essential Requirements

• Degree-qualified.

• 10+ years’ experience in complex ERP-enabled transformation programmes.

• 5+ years on Oracle Fusion Cloud implementations (£25m+ budgets).

• Advanced MS Project and strong agile tool (e.g. JIRA) experience.

• Excellent communication, analysis, and governance-level reporting skills.

• Able to work independently, under pressure, and manage competing priorities.

Security Clearance

• Active SC clearance preferred; SC-eligible candidates may be considered.

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