Location: Dubai, UAE
Work Mode: 100% Onsite
Experience: 15+ Years
Project Phase: UAT, Data Migration, Cutover, Go-Live & Stabilisation
About the Role
Bradsol is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager / Programme Manager – Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP to lead the critical final stages of a large-scale enterprise ERP implementation.
The successful candidate will take ownership of programme delivery, drive the implementation partner and internal teams, resolve critical issues, manage dependencies, and ensure the programme is ready for a controlled production go-live.
This is a hands-on delivery leadership role requiring strong execution, decision-making, stakeholder management, and the ability to drive outstanding actions to closure. Candidates whose experience is limited to PMO coordination, reporting, or functional consulting without programme ownership will not be suitable.
Key Responsibilities
1. Programme & Delivery Management
- Own the integrated programme plan, milestones, dependencies, and critical path.
- Drive delivery across functional, technical, data, and business teams.
- Identify risks, resolve blockers, and establish recovery plans for delayed activities.
- Ensure deliverables have clear owners, deadlines, and completion criteria.
2. Implementation Partner Management
- Drive accountability and delivery commitments from the Oracle Fusion implementation partner.
- Challenge missed deadlines, incomplete deliverables, and recurring delays.
- Track outstanding configurations, integrations, reports, defects, and technical dependencies.
- Escalate critical issues and ensure corrective actions are completed on time.
3. UAT & Defect Management
- Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) planning, governance, and readiness.
- Monitor test execution, defect status, severity, ageing, and resolution.
- Drive timely resolution and retesting of critical and high-priority defects.
- Ensure UAT exit criteria and formal business sign-off are achieved.
4. Data Migration & Reconciliation
- Oversee data readiness, cleansing, validation, and mock migration cycles.
- Coordinate migration activities across business teams, IT, and the implementation partner.
- Ensure financial and operational reconciliation, business validation, and sign-off.
- Drive resolution of data-quality issues before production go-live.
5. Business Readiness & Training
- Ensure key-user and end-user training is completed.
- Drive readiness of business processes, user access, roles, and operating procedures.
- Resolve outstanding business decisions and readiness gaps.
- Ensure business teams and support functions are prepared for go-live.
6. Cutover, Go-Live & Stabilisation
- Own the integrated cutover plan, including activities, dependencies, timelines, and responsibilities.
- Lead cutover rehearsals, readiness reviews, and execution governance.
- Assess readiness across UAT, defects, data, integrations, security, training, and operations.
- Define go/no-go criteria and provide evidence-based recommendations to senior management.
- Lead the transition to production and immediate post-go-live stabilisation, as required.
7. Governance & Stakeholder Management
- Maintain oversight of risks, issues, actions, dependencies, decisions, and change requests.
- Provide clear, fact-based updates to programme sponsors and senior leadership.
- Drive timely decisions and escalate issues that threaten delivery or go-live.
- Communicate delivery status, business impact, corrective actions, owners, and deadlines.
Required Skills & Experience
- Minimum 15 years of experience in ERP implementations, project management, or enterprise transformation programmes.
- Proven experience as a Senior Project Manager, ERP Programme Manager, or equivalent delivery leader.
- Strong hands-on experience managing Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP implementations.
- Demonstrated ownership of implementation delivery through UAT, data migration, cutover, production go-live, and stabilisation.
- Experience managing external implementation partners and system integrators.
- Strong understanding of cross-functional ERP dependencies, integrations, data migration, testing, and deployment.
- Proven ability to recover delayed programmes, resolve delivery blockers, and drive accountability.
- Excellent stakeholder management, decision-making, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Willingness to work 100% onsite in Dubai, UAE for the assignment.
Oracle Fusion Modules
Experience across multiple Oracle Fusion Cloud modules is expected, including:
- Oracle Fusion Financials
- Oracle Fusion Procurement
- Oracle Fusion Projects / Project Management
- Oracle Fusion HCM
- Oracle Fusion Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Candidates must have sufficient functional and technical delivery knowledge to challenge implementation teams and identify risks. Acting as the functional consultant for every module is not required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related discipline.
- PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, or equivalent project/programme management certification.
- Oracle Fusion Cloud certification or relevant implementation certification.
- Experience delivering large-scale ERP programmes in the UAE or wider Middle East is an advantage.