Oracle Planning and RAID Manager

Overview

We are looking for an experienced Oracle Fusion Cloud Programme Planner & RAID Lead to support a large-scale Corporate Services Modernisation Programme. The programme is delivering a transformation of Finance, Commercial, HR, Enterprise Architecture, Technical Delivery, and Shared Services Operating Model capabilities through the implementation of Oracle ERP, HCM, and EPM technologies.

This is a hands-on delivery role requiring deep Oracle Fusion Cloud programme experience, with responsibility for driving integrated planning, dependency management, and RAID governance across multiple workstreams within a complex transformation environment.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain integrated programme plans across multiple Oracle Fusion Cloud workstreams.
• Develop detailed MS Project plans from inception, ensuring alignment across programme, workstream, and supplier delivery activities.
• Identify, manage, and track cross-workstream dependencies, milestones, critical paths, and delivery risks.
• Lead RAID management activities, ensuring risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies are actively managed and escalated where required.
• Support workstream leads and programme directors in breaking down complex delivery activities into structured work packages and deliverables.
• Ensure alignment between programme plans, workstream plans, and JIRA structures.
• Drive planning discipline and governance across internal teams, implementation partners, and third-party suppliers.
• Produce programme reporting, planning updates, dependency analysis, and governance documentation for senior stakeholders.
• Support programme leadership with delivery forecasting, schedule optimisation, and recovery planning where required.
• Facilitate planning workshops and stakeholder discussions to maintain programme alignment and delivery momentum.
• Work closely with programme leadership to ensure planning, RAID management, and governance processes support successful programme delivery.

Requirements

• Degree-level qualification.
• 10+ years of experience delivering complex ERP-enabled transformation programmes.
• Minimum 5 years of experience working on large-scale Oracle Fusion Cloud implementation programmes.
• Proven experience delivering Oracle Fusion Cloud programmes with annual budgets exceeding £25 million.
• Strong experience gained within Oracle Fusion Cloud System Integrator environments.
• Extensive experience developing and managing complex MS Project plans from a zero-base.
• Advanced MS Project planning skills and strong experience using JIRA within large transformation programmes.
• Strong understanding of Oracle Fusion Cloud implementation methodologies and end-to-end delivery lifecycles.
• Proven experience managing programme dependencies, critical paths, and integrated delivery schedules.
• Significant hands-on RAID management experience within complex Oracle transformation programmes.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience operating across large and complex delivery organisations.
• Strong communication and reporting skills with experience supporting programme boards, sponsors, and senior leadership teams.
• Ability to work independently within fast-paced and complex programme environments.

Desirable

• Experience supporting ERP-enabled shared services transformations.
• Experience working within complex third-party supplier and system integrator environments.
• Strong understanding of risk management methodologies and governance frameworks.
• Experience supporting Oracle ERP, HCM, and EPM transformation programmes.
• Existing SC Clearance is highly desirable.

Security Clearance

• Candidates holding active SC Clearance are strongly preferred.
• Candidates eligible for SC Clearance may also be considered and must be willing to undergo the clearance process prior to deployment.