Principal Consultant-Deployment & Governance Manager

Overview

In this role, you will lead the deployment of Oracle Fusion HCM across UK User Organisations, driving readiness, testing, training, and transition to business-as-usual. You partner with cross-functional teams to establish a consistent deployment approach and governance across waves, ensuring successful go-lives and benefits realization. You shape deployment roadmaps, manage dependencies, and report progress to programme governance. This is a hands-on leadership position aimed at delivering enterprise-scale HR cloud transformation with clear impact on adoption and user readiness.

Responsibilities

• Establish deployment approach for each User Organisation and develop wave roadmaps
• Manage schedules, milestones, and dependencies across deployment waves
• Lead engagement and ensure consistent deployment standards across User Organisations
• Provide leadership to Senior Readiness Leads and governance across readiness outcomes
• Establish and govern readiness assessments with agreed thresholds
• Oversee UAT/SIT testing planning, governance, and sign-off
• Own training and adoption outcomes, coordinate with Change and Benefits teams
• Lead cutover planning, go-live governance, and hypercare transition

Key requirements

• 8-12 years of project management experience
• Experience deploying workforce/HR or enterprise cloud solutions
• Familiarity with Oracle Fusion HCM and related processes
• Experience supporting national-scale or multi-organisation deployment programmes
• Knowledge of change, training, adoption, and benefits realization practices
• UK Public Sector transformation experience
• Strong problem-solving and coaching abilities

• Problem-solving
• Coaching and mentoring
• Stakeholder engagement
• Oracle Fusion HCM processes
• Orbit processes
• Testing governance (UAT/SIT)

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