Consulting Project Manager

Job description / Role

Oracle Consulting Services MEA delivery team located in Cairo Egypt, known as Pharos, is growing and expanding its business. We are looking for experienced PM , who lead implementation projects. The candidate should have a very good understanding of Oracle Fusion solutions, industry best practices, multiple business processes or technology designs within a product/technology family

If you're an excellent communicator with a passion for empowering business innovation, this is your opportunity to stand out!

Our Consulting Practice in MEA, known as Pharos is currently planning to hire one experienced Project/Program Manager for our team based in Cairo. Candidate will initially hired as contractor, with the vision to be converted to Oracle employee.

Career Level - N/A

What you will do:

As an acknowledged authority within Oracle, this senior-level project management / program management position provides consistent high quality and innovative solution leadership with industry-wide impact. He/she will be responsible for guiding the successful implementation of integrated solutions based either on oracle cloud platform and/or on hybrid cloud/on premise, architectures, ensuring high quality and timely delivery within budget to the customer's satisfaction.

Based on oracle consulting mission and offering in technology area, typical assignments will include:

- Migrating customer workloads from on-prem to Oracle Cloud
- Modernizing existing customer applications or infrastructures
- Delivering innovative, modern multi-channel applications leveraging cloud-native paradigms and digital contents
- Delivering enterprise-scale integrations between existing and new applications

In the above context, Project/Program Manager:

- As a thought leader and trusted advisor, effectively influences decisions at the leadership level of customer organizations.
- Enables business development efforts by providing subject matter expertise. Manages the scope of medium to large-scale projects, and accounts with varying levels of complexity.
- In bid phases, analyzes business needs to help ensure Oracle's solution meets the customer's objectives by combining industry best practices and product knowledge.
- In delivery phase, effectively applies Oracle's methodologies and policies while adhering to contractual obligations, minimizing Oracle's risk and exposure.
- As a position of professional influence, this individual frequently operates at the leading edge of technology.
- Exercises creativity and independent judgement in identifying and resolving major issues and risks impacting project success according to PMI.
- Provides direction and mentoring to project teams.
- Ensures customer deliverables are acceptable and works closely with the customer to understand and manage project expectations.
- Create long-term customer relationships and collaborate with both consulting and licensing / cloud Oracle sales areas.
- Identifies the areas of potential business growth on customers and directs them in compliance with corporate strategies.

What you'll bring:

Your enthusiasm, love and passion for customer success will help us become the leading cloud service provider.

Key Skills/Qualifications

- Several years of experience relevant to this position, including 5+ years of direct project and/or program management experience in one or more of the assignments listed in the former section, executed as a delivery project manager with project P&L responsibility.

Proven record of full lifecycle implementations of projects exceeding 1000 days delivery effort

- Current PMI - PMP, Prince2 Practitioner or similar certification
- Hands-on experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Lead or Agile Coach, preferably within large organizations would be a great plus
- Demonstrated ability to follow solid project management principles and successfully manage projects of increasing complexity
- Experienced working in a matrix management environment
- Experience in bid management with deal with internal stakeholders, customers, and vendors
- Depending on the seniority, proven experience in working with customer senior managers or executives
- Cloud technology focus, and technical or industry domain expertise in one or more of the assignments listed above would be a great plus
- Proven experience in managing remote and offshore teams
- Adaptability and ability to embrace and drive change. Ability to work in heterogeneous environments, with multiple actors / companies involved in the customers delivery context
- Graduate degree (Diploma/Master/Bachelor) or equivalent experience.
- Language: Italian as native language (or extremely fluent), fluency in English

What We Offer:

A driver's seat in leading your own career. We give you the freedom, skills, tools and technologies to shape your future. Whatever avenue you go down, you'll gain access to immense learning experiences, and you'll always be backed-up by Oracle's impressive resources. We offer an international culture that is vibrant, dynamic and inspiring, helping you reach your full potential.

Equal Opportunity

At Oracle, we don't just respect differences-we celebrate them. We believe that innovation starts with inclusion and to create the future we need people with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. That's why we're committed to creating a workplace where all kinds of people can do their best work. It's when everyone's voice is heard and valued that we're inspired to go beyond what's been done before.

About the Company

Oracle offers an integrated array of applications, databases, servers, storage, and cloud technologies to empower modern business. For most companies, flexibility is critical. Oracle provides a wide choice of software, systems, and cloud deployment models - including public, on-premises, and hybrid clouds - to ensure that technology flexes to the unique needs of a business.

Oracle Cloud is a complete, integrated stack of platform, infrastructure, and application services. With advanced scalability and security, Oracle Cloud enables technical agility across the enterprise, connects people to information for clearer insights, and fosters efficiency through simplified workflows.

More than 420,000 customers across 145 countries have harnessed Oracle technology to accelerate their digital transformation.