Lift Project Portfolio Manager

Oracle
united kingdom
10 months ago
Create job alert

Oracle Lift is a multi-disciplined team of experts collaborating with Oracle’s presales, CAMs, Architects and cloud sales. The team operates at pace, through qualification, workload scoping, “go” or “no-go”, then delivery across multiple customers in parallel. 

The Lift team contains technical specialists, technical delivery resources and project managers. This team is ready to engage with our customers – all household names you will have heard of. Are you ready to be the Project manager of this team?

Role Summary

Your mission will be to become the Project Manager of multiple parallel Lift implementations and orchestrate delivery from the delivery team by:

Owning the delivery scope of a ‘first workload’ into a customer’s business  Being the delivery ‘face’ of Oracle, managing delivery risks, issues, escalations, and delivery progress. Own the “delivery interlock” with the offshore team, architects, technical specialists, and the customer. Supporting cloud sales in positioning and selling of a ‘follow-on’ expansion project, and handing over to Oracle Consulting, partners, or In-house resources to deliver the expansion.

Tell me more?

Working as a project manager of multiple Lift projects you will be part of a small team of EMEA based project managers, collaboration with your peers and the leadership team will be critical to help define and shape your success. 

On a day to day bases you will lead a number of concurrent deliveries, to grow a cloud business for Oracle. Typical Lift projects include DB or applications move to cloud, reporting, autonomous, machine learning, analytics, high performance computing projects. 

You will be focused on customer success and consumption generation. You will have the gravitas to engage with senior leaders and discuss delivery and business challenges. You will be supported by an offshore or near shore team of deep delivery expertise. 

Note there are multiple roles open, based around EMEA, each role working remotely with one or more countries.

What does a Lift delivery look like? 

With opportunities provided by our cloud sales org, the implementation team will engage with the customer to ‘unpack’ the business challenge (for example Analytics) and the pre sales for an architectural scope. Our Lift offshore team will define a delivery plan that you will align with the customer’s expectations. It is likely you will have already been engaged and built a relationship with the customer during the “sales cycle”. Once sales agree the contract, you will manage resources and ensure they deliver a short sharp ‘WOW’ delivery experience for our customers in approx. 50days. 

Career Level - IC4

What do I need to be successful?

Be a leader, a ‘doer’, with a vision & desire to build a business with a technical project delivery focus and mentality.

Bring entrepreneurial & innovative flare, with the tenacity to develop and prove delivery ideas independently, then share these as examples to improve the efficient of the delivery of these solutions across EMEA.  Experience of rapidly deploying cloud solutions into business environments: Database, applications, reporting & analytics. Orchestration of project delivery teams to deliver successfully into customers, large and small. Working effectively across internal, external, culturally diverse, lines of business to define and deliver customer success. 

Must be able to demonstrate.

Orchestrate delivery across businesses by communicating, liaising, and negotiating using appropriate methods to ensure efficient project delivery.  Ability to sanity check and take accountability for delivery scope. Manage internal and external stakeholder expectations and escalations. Present to external customer stakeholders and lead delivery team meetings.

Does all this sound exciting? are you ready to build the new? Come and talk to us!

Related Jobs

View all jobs

Senior Manager Marketing Data & Insights Strategy

Enterprise Account Executive

Software Engineer - United Kingdom

Get the latest insights and jobs direct. Sign up for our newsletter.

By subscribing you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service.

Industry Insights

Discover insightful articles, industry insights, expert tips, and curated resources.

Machine‑Learning Jobs for Non‑Technical Professionals: Where Do You Fit In?

The Model Needs More Than Math When ChatGPT went viral and London start‑ups raised seed rounds around “foundation models,” many professionals asked, “Do I need to learn PyTorch to work in machine learning?” The answer is no. According to the Turing Institute’s UK ML Industry Survey 2024, 39 % of advertised ML roles focus on strategy, compliance, product or operations rather than writing code. As models move from proof‑of‑concept to production, demand surges for specialists who translate algorithms into business value, manage risk and drive adoption. This guide reveals the fastest‑growing non‑coding ML roles, the transferable skills you may already have, real transition stories and a 90‑day action plan—no gradient descent necessary.

Quantexa Machine‑Learning Jobs in 2025: Your Complete UK Guide to Joining the Decision‑Intelligence Revolution

Money‑laundering rings, sanctioned entities, synthetic identities—complex risks hide in plain sight inside data. Quantexa, a London‑born scale‑up now valued at US $2.2 bn (Series F, August 2024), solves that problem with contextual decision‑intelligence (DI): graph analytics, entity resolution and machine learning stitched into a single platform. Banks, insurers, telecoms and governments from HSBC to HMRC use Quantexa to spot fraud, combat financial crime and optimise customer engagement. With the launch of Quantexa AI Studio in February 2025—bringing generative AI co‑pilots and large‑scale Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to the platform—the company is hiring at record pace. The Quantexa careers portal lists 450+ open roles worldwide, over 220 in the UK across data science, software engineering, ML Ops and client delivery. Whether you are a graduate data scientist fluent in Python, a Scala veteran who loves Spark or a solutions architect who can turn messy data into knowledge graphs, this guide explains how to land a Quantexa machine‑learning job in 2025.

Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning vs. MLOps Jobs: Which Path Should You Choose?

Machine Learning (ML) continues to transform how businesses operate, from personalised product recommendations to automated fraud detection. As ML adoption accelerates in nearly every industry—finance, healthcare, retail, automotive, and beyond—the demand for professionals with specialised ML skills is surging. Yet as you browse Machine Learning jobs on www.machinelearningjobs.co.uk, you may encounter multiple sub-disciplines, such as Deep Learning and MLOps. Each of these fields offers unique challenges, requires a distinct skill set, and can lead to a rewarding career path. So how do Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and MLOps differ? And which area best aligns with your talents and aspirations? This comprehensive guide will define each field, highlight overlaps and differences, discuss salary ranges and typical responsibilities, and explore real-world examples. By the end, you’ll have a clearer vision of which career track suits you—whether you prefer building foundational ML models, pushing the boundaries of neural network performance, or orchestrating robust ML pipelines at scale.