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)

As an Oracle Design Lead, your main responsibilities will be to:
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 escalate 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.

Essential:
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.