Oracle Program Manager: Responsible & Accountable for Stakeholder management, gross profit margins, successful contract execution, escalation & dispute management & value creation. Stakeholder management – Customer(s): Executive Sponsors, Programme Director, Business Head’s Partner(s): Oracle CSM, Oracle PSM & Directors of other partners Mastek: Vertical leads, PM’s, SA’s, project teams & support functions Internal teams: Lead & review fulfillment of resource needs for the projects. Final authority to onboard / offboard resources, any resource movement across shores. Frequent review of team’s performance & quality checks. Co-ordination with pre-sales & account managers to mine new opportunities with existing customers. Gross Profit Margins – Ensure programs are executed within timelines, efforts & budget (within sales gross profit margins / agreed profit margins). 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. 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 – Detailed understanding of every clause in the contract. Review Bill of Materials, SOW & ITT responses as part of handover along with PM’s & SA’s. Review other key elements and ensure the team operates within these scope elements. (See project managers section on other key elements) Review of various logs periodically & ensure all parties are appraised on risk register & timelines audit log reports. Ensure the project team follows the required quality & sanity checks. Maintain program level risk register & come up with mitigation plans. Coverage of CRs for every slippage due to customer / scope changes. 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. Co-ordinate with account manager on addressing CSR commitments as part of contracts. Escalation & Dispute Management – Handle program level escalations. Appraise vertical leader & account manager on all critical escalations. Co-ordinate with vertical leader, account manager, customer & legal team for dispute management which involves commercial discussion / negotiations. Value Creation – Going beyond SOW without compromising GP%. Review of VBA Reports / KPIs and guide team on fine tuning messaging.