Oracle Fusion Project Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Oversee daily execution across various program workstreams, ensuring that plans, deliverables, and dependencies are synchronized among business teams, IT, and Huron.

• Create, maintain, and manage comprehensive project plans using Smartsheet or Microsoft Project; monitor milestones, dependencies, and critical path activities.

• Assist in the planning and execution of multiple testing cycles, which includes coordinating test schedules, tracking defects and resolutions, and confirming readiness to progress between cycles.

• Review and verify Huron deliverables for completeness, quality, and alignment with established requirements and project scope.

• Contribute to the establishment and maturation of emerging workstreams such as change management, reporting, and security by defining activities, owners, timelines, and success criteria.

• Document future business processes and drive the development of process documentation where there are gaps.

• Examine solution documents, functional design documents like MD50s, and configuration workbooks to comprehend design choices and pinpoint gaps, risks, and unresolved issues.

• Identify program gaps and potential risks; lead mitigation planning and escalate significant risks to program leadership.

• Facilitate working sessions and status meetings; prepare clear status updates for the Project Leadership Team.

• Assist in knowledge transfer and transition planning as key IT team members retire, ensuring that institutional knowledge is recorded and preserved.

• Adjust plans as the scope changes, including late-arriving requirements and possible parallel programs.

• Within the first 30 days, review the program SharePoint site, familiarize yourself with program governance and relationships, identify gaps, and initiate mitigation planning.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of project management experience, particularly in delivering enterprise application or ERP implementations.

• Strong working knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and comprehensive program delivery, spanning design through testing, cutover, and hypercare.

• Advanced expertise in building and managing project plans using Smartsheet or Microsoft Project.

• Experience in supporting multiple testing cycles (SIT, UAT, regression) and managing defect resolution alongside business and technical teams.

• Proven experience collaborating directly with external systems integrators, including tracking and validating their deliverables.

• Ability to comprehend functional and technical documentation, such as functional design documents and configuration workbooks, without needing to write code.

• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously, take ownership of tasks, ask pertinent questions proactively, and function effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment with minimal oversight.

• Strong risk and issue management capabilities, including identifying gaps and driving mitigation plans to completion.

• Excellent written communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills across business, IT, and vendor teams.

• Experience working effectively in a fully remote team environment.

• Preferred: Experience managing Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP implementations, especially Oracle EBS to Fusion migrations.

• Preferred: Experience with SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics 365, or similar ERP programs.

• Preferred: Experience working with Huron Consulting Group on ERP implementations.

• Preferred: Experience in the natural gas pipeline, energy, or other regulated industries.

• Preferred: Experience supporting change management, reporting, or security workstreams within an ERP program.

• Preferred: Experience developing business process documentation and capturing future state processes.

• Preferred: Familiarity with regulatory and compliance requirements such as FERC, SOX, and audit readiness.

• Preferred: PMP, PgMP, or equivalent project management certification.

🏝️ Benefits

• Contract engagement.

• Remote work arrangement.