PLM Lead (Senior Principal Consultant) - Oracle Cloud PLM (Product Development, Product Hub, and Quality)

As the PLM Lead within Oracle Consulting, you will serve as the functional and solutioning authority for Oracle Cloud PLM within our organization. Acting as a senior individual contributor, you will lead major PLM design, configuration, and deployment initiatives, spanning Innovation Management, Product Development, Product Hub, and Quality modules.

You’ll collaborate with cross-functional business teams (Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, and IT) and external partners to design scalable, efficient PLM processes that enable seamless product innovation, lifecycle governance, and master data management.

You’ll translate complex PLM requirements into scalable, compliant, and globally consistent data models that enable seamless integration across manufacturing, supply chain, pricing, and finance functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for Oracle Cloud PLM covering architecture, design, configuration, and integration.
• Lead end-to-end PLM implementations, including process mapping, solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, and post-go-live support.
• Translate business needs into scalable PLM solutions, ensuring seamless integration with ERP, SCM, and Manufacturing modules.
• Develop and maintain key solution artifacts: functional design documents, configuration workbooks, process flow diagrams, data mappings, and test scripts.
• Drive the design and governance of item structures, change orders, product specifications, and lifecycle phases.
• Define and implement product data governance and stewardship processes across global business units.
• Collaborate with Product Hub stakeholders to ensure a unified approach to master data, attributes, catalogs, and hierarchies.
• Oversee configuration of Quality Management modules, ensuring alignment with compliance standards.
• Partner with Integration and Technical teams to design robust data flows between PLM and ERP systems (e.g., Oracle Cloud SCM, Manufacturing, or EBS).
• Lead workshops on Item Class strategy, change management, lifecycle governance, and attribute inheritance.
• Configure and optimize complex item models for multi-variant and configurable products.
• Partner with costing teams to establish item cost structures, cost organizations, and integration with Oracle Product Costing Cloud.
• Define and implement standards for UOMs, catalogs, and attribute hierarchies to support analytics and downstream integrations.
• Support testing cycles (SIT, UAT, Regression) and validate system readiness prior to production rollout.
• Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and coordinate resolution with Oracle and internal IT.
• Champion Oracle Cloud best practices, promote continuous improvement, and drive adoption across end-user groups.
• Mentor junior consultants and serve as a trusted advisor to project managers and business leads.

Qualifications & Experience

• 8+ years of experience in Product Lifecycle Management, with 4+ years of hands-on Oracle Cloud PLM (Innovation, Product Development, Product Hub, and Quality).
• Proven experience delivering at least two full lifecycle PLM implementations on Oracle Cloud or Agile PLM.
• Deep understanding of PLM processes - new product introduction (NPI), engineering change management (ECN/ECO), item master governance, and quality event management.
• Strong configuration experience with Oracle Cloud Product Hub (PDH), including item classes, catalogs, extensible attributes, and governance workflows.
• Working knowledge of Item structures and product structure synchronization with ERP / Manufacturing modules.
• Familiarity with OIC (Oracle Integration Cloud) or other middleware for PLM-ERP data synchronization.
• Strong business process knowledge across product design, supply chain, and quality domains.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities with attention to data integrity and process standardizati