Practice Manager - Oracle HCM - IT

We have a senior opportunity for Practice Manager-Oracle HCM with one of our client for Bangalore/Mumbai/Pune location.

Job Description :

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Driving internal awareness in Oracle technology - vision, innovation, capability.

- Increase head count nos. thus helping technology & practice grow year-on-year basis.

- Liaison with Sector delivery, Operations & Recruitment to effectively manage demand-supply & bench strength of HCM capability.

- Support Pre-Sales/GTM teams by way of participating in RFPS, RFIs, Orals, Client visits, creating POCs & conducting specific client presentations.

- Leading the HCM cloud solutioning and estimating in proposals, planning and pricing.

- Helping build sales pipeline and supporting business opportunities to drive Oracle-related sales.

- Create differentiators for Client Oracle Practice through the design, development and/or delivery of a solution, service, capability or offering.

- Defining and driving the right Oracle solution to meet the technical performance, scalability, flexibility, operations and capability needs.

- Taking a proactive approach to risk management, ensuring risks and issues are identified, addressed and reported and, where appropriate, escalated.

- Manage communication, escalations, risks & issues pertaining to account/project delivery with sector delivery leads.

- Suggest & drive continuous service improvements in technology area.

- Maintain, improve Pyramid Structure within capability & align it with overall practice.

- Developing, implementing & driving an effective training, certification, up-skilling & cross-skilling roadmap for capability.

- Design SMART goals for people development that complements practice direction & business plans. Provide guidance to capability team members to help achieve them.

- Connecting with members of HCM capability on regular basis to make them aware about on goings in the practice.

- Responsible for overall people management, development & retention of technology capability consultants.

- Setting strategic direction to establish near-term goals.

Required Skills :

Essential :

- Experienced Senior IT manager with a proven track record in delivering successful projects.

- Excellent delegation skills, negotiation skills and strong people management skills.

- Good communication skills, as this role involves working with other functions of the practice on daily basis.

- Commitment to drive capability with only GROWTH at the center.

- Strong ability to implement technical architecture solutions to solve business problems.

- Extensive experience in designing, developing and application migration for Oracle technology solutions into cloud platforms.

- Experience in solutioning AM and AD engagements for emerging technologies.

- Reviews periodically quality of work produced by the HCM capability team members part of various accounts.

- Act as a mentor to HCM capability leads and the team members.

- Strong experience in Oracle HCM product and specialize in one or multiple modules Global HR, T&L, Payroll, Talent Management, Absence Management, Benefits etc.

- Experience in building functional solutions for specific industry

- Strong experience is sales lifecycle, sales strategy and deal shaping.

- Good understanding of Software Delivery Lifecycle and technical testing

Desired :

- Experience working in DevOps or agile environment.

- Good Knowledge of Oracle Cloud IaaS/PaaS/SaaS products portfolio.