Oracle Program Manager:
* Responsible & Accountable for Stakeholder management, gross profit margins, successful contract execution, escalation & dispute management & value creation.
* Stakeholder management –
1. Customer(s): Executive Sponsors, Programme Director, Business Head’s
2. Partner(s): Oracle CSM, Oracle PSM & Directors of other partners
3. Mastek: Vertical leads, PM’s, SA’s, project teams & support functions
4. Internal teams:
5. Lead & review fulfillment of resource needs for the projects.
6. Final authority to onboard / offboard resources, any resource movement across shores.
7. Frequent review of team’s performance & quality checks.
8. Co-ordination with pre-sales & account managers to mine new opportunities with existing customers.
* Gross Profit Margins –
1. Ensure programs are executed within timelines, efforts & budget (within sales gross profit margins / agreed profit margins).
2. NOTE: Any slippages on GP margins beyond sales GP should be approved by vertical leader.Responsible for month-on-month revenue & resource forecast till program closure and ensure minimum to no variance.
3. NOTE: Any fluctuations on monthly revenue numbers beyond 2-3% (between forecast & actuals) should be presented to vertical leader along with a justification.CR’s should be approved as per the agreed rate card. Any discounts beyond 5% should be approved by the vertical leader as rate cards are already discounted.
* Successful Contract Execution –
1. Detailed understanding of every clause in the contract.
2. Review Bill of Materials, SOW & ITT responses as part of handover along with PM’s & SA’s.
3. Review other key elements and ensure the team operates within these scope elements. (See project managers section on other key elements)
4. Review of various logs periodically & ensure all parties are appraised on risk register & timelines audit log reports.
5. Ensure the project team follows the required quality & sanity checks.
6. Maintain program level risk register & come up with mitigation plans.
7. Coverage of CRs for every slippage due to customer / scope changes.
8. NOTE: Timely signoffs are a must and need to take hard calls along with vertical leader if signoffs are not provided in time.Work with customer & account manager on executing additional scope elements mentioned in contract.
9. Co-ordinate with account manager on addressing CSR commitments as part of contracts.
* Escalation & Dispute Management –
1. Handle program level escalations.
2. Appraise vertical leader & account manager on all critical escalations.
3. Co-ordinate with vertical leader, account manager, customer & legal team for dispute management which involves commercial discussion / negotiations.
* Value Creation –
1. Going beyond SOW without compromising GP%.
2. Review of VBA Reports / KPIs and guide team on fine tuning messaging.