IT Oracle EBS Project Manager

As the global leader in high-speed connectivity, Ciena is committed to a people-first approach. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a flexible work environment that empowers individual growth, well-being, and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

Ciena is looking for a Program/Project Manager to join our team who is inquisitive, highly motivated, passionate about change, and enjoys being challenged by resolving complex problems.  You must work well in a team oriented, matrixed environment and possess a mixed business and technical background focused on finance and accounting solutions.

The Program/Project Manager is responsible for the overall management of strategic projects focused on IT centric applications deployments across platforms such as Oracle EBS, SalesForce, ADP Payroll, Anaplan, and a variety of SaaS applications.  A candidate should have experience working with Accounting and Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) business users implementing SaaS solutions including vendor management and large scale solutions delivery.  The project teams are made up of globally distributed technical and business teams, often with a mix of internal and vendor resources to deliver solutions and services to clients.
 

The Program/Project Manager will collaborate with subject matter experts to translate project objectives and requirements into schedules and tasks. A candidate needs to demonstrate experience leading medium to large scale projects/programs and budgets for accounting and FP&A organizations.

Additional responsibilities will include:

• Lead all aspects of the ongoing review of projects(s) status; closely supervise project resources tasks, risks, and landmarks, make course corrections when necessary using defined change control procedures, recommend and implement solutions as appropriate.
• Partner with Business Functional Leads and System Implementation Partner to prioritize requirements, and estimate effort and resources required to satisfy both - Project Execution and Tracking.
• Ability to work at multiple levels and support the team across the lifecycle of the project to meet its goals (initiation through deployment and hyper-care support)
• Responsible for leading all day to day project activities for a team of individual contributors spanning cross-site, global locations.
• Direct activities, assign responsibilities, set expectations and motivate team members toward achieving program/project objectives.
• Provide input into vendor negotiations and lead vendor within defined contract parameters.
• Lead projects using different methodologies as needed by the project (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid, FastFail, etc)
• Ensures alignment to strategic priorities.
• Coordinate with IT directors, Business Managers, Resource Managers and IT PMO Manager for resource assignments, creation of project deliverables, issue resolution and escalation.

Experience:

• 8+ years experience as a Project Manager with Oracle EBS experience, Financial, HR, Supply Chain SaaS Solutions, or other related business IT solutions
• Experience executing highly matrixed global projects with team members including Developers, Business Analysts, Business Owners and Service Owners.
• Experience managing vendors with both onshore and offshore teams as part of the engagement.
• Delivery expertise on projects that are multi-year efforts.
• Delivery expertise is driven from your balanced business & technical background: Sufficient level of technical background to provide highly-credible leadership to development teams and to be able to accurately and objectively evaluate complex project risks and issues
• Ability to provide leadership to business analysts and collaborate with customers and develop strategies and solutions of high business value

• Professional Scrum Master (PSM), Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Practitioner or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred
• Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building
• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to lead challenging demands
• Proven ability to lead IT development projects and ensure objectives, goals, and commitments are met
• Solid understanding of and demonstrated experience in using appropriate tools: Agile Project Management tools such as Jira, Rally or equivalent. Microsoft Project, Visio, and all Microsoft Office Tools.
• Creative approach to problem-solving with the ability to focus on details while maintaining the “big picture” view