Version 1 is hiring a
ERP Programme Manager

Summary

Join a leading Oracle Consultancy in Ireland & the UK as a Programme Manager and drive value for customers through Finance and HR system transformations.

Requirements

• Experience of leading projects and programmes within an ERP/HCM/EPM landscape
• Managing and motivating team of 25+ consultants
• Leading programmes and teams that may have resources in multiple countries
• C-Suite level stakeholder management, negotiation, and presentation skills
• Ownership for financial outcomes on Fixed Price or T&M projects with budgets up to £/€5m
• Implementing strong governance and compliance frameworks (Gate Control, Status Reporting, Steering Forums, Design Authorities)
• Leading scope management with stakeholders and customers to align with business outcomes
• Working to Project management methodology standards e.g., MSP or PRINCE2

Responsibilities

• Set a clear vision and communicate this to your project/programme team(s), including customer project team members, motivating them to deliver on the vision and, ensuring that the teams understand the big picture and the part they play in it
• Be known as a highly effective communicator, regularly chairing, presenting, and participating in board level steering groups involving customer C-suite level executives
• Be a leader - managing your Version 1 team, ensuring that the teams are delivering the outcomes. You’ll participate at Practice-level to ensure strong alignment across the different project teams e.g., for sharing resources and specialist skills
• Control and report progress to the Steering Group/Sponsor, and internally within Version 1 senior stakeholders, ensuring that risks and issues are escalated appropriately
• Be able motivate both Version 1 and customer teams to work together at pace, overcome obstacles and meet challenging deadlines
• Build relationships with key stakeholders ensuring they are regularly briefed and have clarity on key timelines, events and resource asks
• Work with the customer to identify and agree the project scope, goals, milestones, dependencies, etc and secure the required resources (people and budget)
• Be proactive in identifying potential risks and issues and have a contingency plan in place to mitigate these and keep the project on track
• Work with a globally dispersed team, in an onshore-offshore environment, ensuring alignment across everyone involved on your programme
• Closely monitor and report on project budget, taking ownership for the P&L targets for your programme, and ensuring clear financial arrangements are in place for the programme
• Develop well thought-out, achievable project plans underpinned by Version 1’s MAXIMISE project methodology. You must be able to demonstrate you have worked to a methodology
• Clearly understand the dependencies on, and responsibilities of, external parties such as customers or 3rd party software providers, developing a plan to manage and report on them
• Clearly articulate key project phases and stage gates, what will be required to achieve these and how this will be evidenced by the project team
• Be able to roll-out and land methodologies and approaches across large teams of consultants who will have taken disparate approaches in their past experiences
• Be able to continuously manage a large team through complex, global change
• Be a great listener and in-tune with what is going on day to day in your programmes and get ahead of problems, resolving them before they escalate
• Be the key interface to our customers, helping them navigate the challenges and risks that are part of all transformative programmes – often it is the first time they have done such a transformation and you need to be their guide
• Be willing to challenge the status quo in pursuit of a better outcome for both the customer and Version 1

Benefits

• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance and leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development review
• A large training budget for accreditations and educational assistance for courses relevant to your role
• Version 1 Annual Excellence Awards & our ‘Call-Out’ platform where performance is called out and recognised
• Quarterly performance-related profit share
• Certified Great Place to Work for 10 years in a row
• Flexible mix of Remote/Hybrid working options