Lead Consultant - Oracle Apps SCM Job

Experience

10 - 13 Years

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Oracle Process Manufacturing (OPM) Senior Consultant with deep hands-on expertise across all OPM modules, with strong specialization in OPM Costing. The consultant will play a critical role in global rollouts, implementations, enhancements and support of Oracle E-Business Suite OPM environments, working closely with business stakeholders, finance teams and technical teams to deliver scalable and compliant manufacturing solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Oracle Process Manufacturing implementations and rollouts across multiple geographies and legal entities.
• Own functional design, configuration and deployment of all OPM modules, ensuring alignment with business processes.
• Act as a functional SME for OPM during blueprinting, CRP, UAT, go-live and post-go-live stabilization phases.
• Hands-On expertise in all the modules of OPM (Process Execution, Product Development, Quality Management, Inventory Management, Cost Management (Primary focus area)
• Rollout & Global Deployment Experience including business process harmonization, localization requirements, Chart of accounts and costing structure alignment and data migration activities.
• Work closely with Integration & Cross-Functional Collaboration (Oracle Financials (GL, AP, AR, CM, FA), Oracle SCM modules (Inventory, Purchasing, BOM, WIP) and coordinate with technical teams.
• Lead functional workshops and solution design discussions with business users.
  Prepare functional documentation on BRDs, FDDs, configuration documents and test scripts.
• 12+ years of Oracle Process Manufacturing experience.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management skills and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work independently and lead complex workstreams; Willingness to travel for rollout and go-live support
• Oracle EBS OPM / SCM certification is a plus.

Other Attributes

• Act as the technical expert, ensuring quick turnaround in identifying application issues and providing timely solutions.
• Actively lead projects and contribute to unit level and organizational initiatives with an objective of providing high quality value adding solutions to customers.
• Comply with all coding standards and performance measures, as per customer/organizations guidelines.
• Develop detailed plans and accurate estimates for completion of build, system testing and implementation phases of project.
• Lead the team in understanding "AS-IS" situation and design and validate the "To-Be" design
• Follow all design work and integration testing protocols, change control procedures, uses standards, procedures, and practices in performing required work.
• Perform integration testing work as necessary to ensure that new functionality or enhancements do not adversely affect existing functionality.
• Provide direct reports ongoing development, feedback, coaching, and mentoring.
• Responsible for reviewing the unit test plans and the quality assurance plans to ensure all requirements have been met.
• Ensure knowledge transfer to functional analysts as necessary to increase their understanding and utilization of the Oracle systems and applications.

Required Technical/ Functional Competencies

Customer Management: 

• Specialized knowledge of customers' business domain and technology suite.
• Use latest technology, communicate effectively, demonstrate leadership, present technical offerings, and proactively suggest solutions.

Projects Documentation:

• In-depth understanding documentation involved in Project like BBP & Solution Design, FS etc.
• Able to build into require project documentation and can do a Peer review for team members project/module documents.

Domain/ Industry Knowledge:

• Specialized knowledge of customers' business processes and relevant technology platform or product.
• Apply industry standards/ practices and create complex business models in line with customer requirements independently.
• Analyze current-state and define to-be processes in collaboration with SME and present recommendations with tangible benefits.
• Drive process improvement initiatives, ROI analysis through innovation.

Functional Design:

• Specialized knowledge of solution design, scope analysis, and building blocks for business cases.
• Identifying key business drivers and translating them into solution components
• Creating diagrams from use cases and updating design specifications
• Understanding functional specifications and designing flexible solutions
• Collaborating with stakeholders to explain the solution approach
• Offering solution options based on research and coordinating process playbacks and reviews for business solutions.

Requirement Gathering and Analysis:

• Specialized knowledge of requirement management processes and requirement analysis processes, tools & methodologies.
• Extract requirements for complex scenarios and prototype independently.
• Identify modules impacted, features/functionalities impacted and arrive at high level estimates.
• Develop traceability matrix and identify transition requirements.

Test Management:

• Able to create iteration, system integration test plan and develop integration test cases as required and verify system build, test environment and iteration test plan.
• Create business scenario test cases and automation test scripts based on understanding of functionality requirements.
• Conduct regression tests as required and impact analysis when a defect fix is made.

Required Behavioral Competencies

Accountability:

• Being a role model for taking initiative and ensuring others take initiative, removing obstacles for others, taking ownership for results and deadlines for self and others, and acting as a role model for being responsible.

Agility:

• Works with a diverse set of situations, people and groups and adapts and motivates self and team to thrive in changing environment.

Collaboration:

• Reaches out to others in team to ensure connections are made and team members are working together.
• Looks for ways to integrate work with other teams, identifying similarities and opportunities, making necessary changes in work to ensure successful integration.

Customer Focus:

• Engages in executive customer discovery to predict future needs of customers and drives customer relationships with a long-term focus and takes actions to enhance customer loyalty.

Communication:

• Communicates and presents complex ideas, information, and data to multiple, broad, and demanding stakeholders internal and/or external to the Organization.
• Helps others communicate better with their audience. Demonstrates honest, direct, and transparent communication and facilitates conversations within the team and its close collaborators.

Drives Results:

• Proactively seeks challenging and differentiated opportunities and drives and motivates team members to take on more responsibility.

Resolves Conflict:

• Balances the business interests of all stakeholders and manages any conflicts offering mutually beneficial options.

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