Oracle Design Lead

Job Title:
Oracle Design Lead
Location:
Birmingham, UK
Job Type: Full-time contract, 12 Months
Work Model:
Hyrbid (at least 2/3 days in the office)

• Lead Functional Design Across ERP, BPS and ICF
• Coordinate and lead the Client's functional design inputs across HR, Finance and Commercial.
• Accountable for shaping, validating and owning the Client's functional design positions submitted into Core Synergy, including convergence, divergence and retained capability decisions.
• Ensure functional requirements are clearly captured, traceable to business outcomes, validated, and integrated into Core Synergy delivery.
• Manage the Client's design authority across the programme pillars (Technology, Services, User Adoption and readiness) to ensuring end to end coherence across operating model layers.
• Maintain oversight of cross-functional dependencies, ensuring coherence and alignment across design streams and resolving design conflicts where trade offs are required.
• Bring a programme-wide perspective to the functional landscape, ensuring activity aligns with scope, milestones, future state operating models and strategic objectives.
• Identify and elevate risks, gaps, issues and opportunities across functional areas, including impacts on service delivery, policy intent, data ownership and business readiness.
• Provide structured, evidence led analysis to support decision-making, framing options, implications and recommendations for senior governance.
• Ensure functional design decisions taken locally are consistent with Synergy principles and do not undermine cross government coherence or benefits realisation.
• Serve as the primary conduit between the Client's functional teams and the Core Synergy programme, representing the Client's design intent and challenging proposals where required.
• Manage the flow of information, ensuring timely and accurate updates across both sides, including design decisions, dependencies and assurance feedback.
• Handle and streamline escalations, ensuring they are routed, tracked and resolved through the appropriate governance channels.
• Lead the Client's engagement in functional design governance (eg KDDs, design boards and solution reviews), including preparation of briefings and recommendations.
• Own the RAID process for functional activity, ensuring risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies are well-defined, design-led and actively managed.
• Maintain integrated functional plans, tracking progress against critical path milestones from design through to readiness and transition into service.
• Coordinate with workstream and project leads to ensure functional delivery remains on track, balancing pace with quality and design integrity.
• Ensure functional risks and dependencies are visible at programme and departmental governance and actively inform prioritisation and sequencing decisions.

• Strong understanding of functional design and process integration in an ERP or large-scale transformation context.
• Demonstrated experience delivering complex projects within a multi-stakeholder, multi-supplier environment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work confidently across organisational boundaries.
• Robust planning, RAID management, governance and assurance capability.
• Ability to provide clear leadership, structure and direction in a fast paced and evolving programme.