About this role
Salary: £36,000 - 60,000 per year
Requirements
- Strong understanding of functional design and process integration in an ERP or large-scale transformation context.
- Demonstrated experience delivering complex projects in a multi-stakeholder, multi-supplier environment.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including 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, evolving programme.
- The role can only be worked within the UK, not overseas.
Responsibilities
- Lead functional design across ERP, BPS and ICF, coordinating design inputs across HR, Finance and Commercial.
- Shape, validate and own the clients 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 clients design authority across programme pillars, including Technology, Services, User Adoption and readiness, ensuring coherence across operating-model layers.
- Oversee cross-functional dependencies, align design streams and resolve design conflicts where trade-offs are required.
- Ensure programme-wide functional 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, framing options, implications and recommendations for senior governance.
- Ensure local functional design decisions are consistent with Synergy principles and support cross-government coherence and benefits realisation.
- Act as the primary conduit between the clients functional teams and the Core Synergy programme, representing the clients design intent and challenging proposals where required.
- Manage the flow of information and provide timely, accurate updates on design decisions, dependencies and assurance feedback.
- Streamline escalations and ensure they are routed, tracked and resolved through appropriate governance channels.
- Lead the clients participation in functional design governance, including KDDs, design boards and solution reviews, and prepare 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 and track progress against critical-path milestones from design through readiness and transition into service.
- Coordinate with workstream and project leads to keep functional delivery on track while balancing pace, quality and design integrity.
- Ensure functional risks and dependencies are visible in programme and departmental governance and inform prioritisation and sequencing decisions.
Technologies
- ERP
- Flow
- Support
- Oracle
- Security
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We are recruiting on behalf of our client for an Oracle Design Lead on a six-month contract, inside IR35. This is a hybrid role requiring three days per week in an office in Birmingham, Newport, Nottingham or Liverpool. Our client is a Disability Confident employer and a signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant; applications from candidates in the groups described in the posting who meet the essential criteria will be prioritised for review. If application volumes are high, additional role-specific or desirable criteria may be used in shortlisting, potentially including active security clearance. The role falls within the scope of Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any quoted payment rate is a gross daily assignment rate subject to applicable taxes and statutory costs, so payment to an intermediary and resulting income will differ.
last updated 45 week of 2026