Job Summary
The Practice Lead – Oracle EBS & Fusion Cloud is responsible for the end-to-end growth, profitability, and delivery excellence of the Oracle ERP practice. This role owns practice strategy, P&L, capability building, and go-to-market execution while providing strong presales, solution leadership, and thought leadership. The Practice Lead will define the long-term roadmap, scale the team, ensure high-quality program delivery, and act as a senior Oracle ERP advisor to customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.
Job Description
Practice Strategy & P&L Ownership
- Define and execute the multi-year strategy for Oracle EBS and Oracle Fusion Cloud
- Own practice P&L including revenue, margins, utilization, and growth targets
- Identify and prioritize Oracle ERP offerings and target geographies, with focus on the retail industry
Business Development & GTM Support
- Partner with Sales and Account teams to shape and close Oracle ERP opportunities
- Build differentiated GTM offerings such as migration accelerators, industry templates, AMS/managed services, and transformation blueprints
- Participate in key client discussions and executive briefings as the senior Oracle ERP SME
- Build and manage strategic alliances with Oracle and ecosystem partners
Delivery Excellence & Governance
- Establish delivery frameworks, methodologies, templates, and best practices for Oracle EBS and Fusion Cloud programs
- Provide governance and oversight for large, complex Oracle programs
- Ensure consistent standards across architecture, design, configuration, integration, testing, and cutover
- Sponsor continuous improvement and quality initiatives across the practice
Practice Building & Talent Management
- Build and scale a high-performing Oracle ERP team across functional, technical, and leadership roles
- Own workforce planning including hiring strategy, pyramid structure, location mix, succession planning, and bench optimization
- Design and drive competency development through certifications, learning journeys, bootcamps, and mentoring
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and customer-centric delivery
Thought Leadership & Innovation
- Create and promote POVs, whitepapers, reference architectures, and case studies
- Lead innovation initiatives around EBS-to-Fusion Cloud migration accelerators, integrations, and industry-specific solutions
- Represent the practice at industry events, Oracle forums, and webinars
Profile Description
- Senior Oracle ERP leader with 15+ years of experience across Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Fusion Cloud
- Deep functional and technical expertise combined with strong business and leadership acumen
- Proven track record of leading large-scale Oracle transformation programs, including greenfield implementations, rollouts, upgrades, and EBS-to-Fusion migrations
- Hands-on experience across core Oracle modules such as Finance, SCM, Manufacturing, Projects, and HR
- Prior experience in roles such as Practice Lead, Portfolio Lead, or Service Line Head with P&L ownership
- Demonstrated capability in growing revenue, scaling teams, and building delivery and consulting capabilities
- Strong understanding of Oracle ERP architecture and integrations, including APIs, SOA/Integration Cloud, middleware, and ETL
- Experience working with surrounding enterprise systems such as CRM, eCommerce, POS, WMS, BI/Analytics, and IAM
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, including C-level client exposure
- Strong commercial acumen and business-oriented mindset
- Proven ability to deliver complex, multi-country Oracle programs on time and within budget
- Experience in establishing delivery governance, risk management, quality assurance, and continuous improvement frameworks
About Company
A client of iLink Talent Solutions is a retail-focused technology consulting firm founded in 2009, headquartered in Kochi with operations across the USA, India, Canada, Australia, and UAE, employing nearly 1,000 professionals. With deep retail domain expertise, they provide digital commerce, AI, cloud, microservices, mobility, quality engineering, and consulting services, supported by proprietary platforms like RetailHive and Ziro™. In 2025, they launched an AI Innovation Office in Trivandrum to advance generative AI and neural intelligence. Recognised as a seven-time Great Place to Work and one of India’s Best IT & IT-BPM workplaces, they continue to drive innovation in the global retail technology space.
