Wood is recruiting an ERP Project Coordinator to join our global Oracle ERP implementation team. Working alongside Project and Delivery Managers, you’ll play a key role in coordinating complex, multi‑region ERP implementations—supporting the delivery of standardised processes, improving operational performance, and helping drive a more connected global business.
This is a UK-based remote role, and we welcome applications from candidates across the UK.
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The Role
This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a large-scale global transformation programme, supporting delivery across multiple regions.
You'll work closely with delivery teams, business stakeholders, and Global Process Owners to ensure projects are well-coordinated, governed, and delivered successfully. You’ll also have the opportunity to take ownership of key delivery activities and step into broader responsibilities as you grow in the role.
Our Clients and Projects
Designing the future. Transforming the world.
Wood delivers solutions across more than 60 countries with local offices covering all major energy and materials hubs globally.
For more than 160 years, we have partnered with clients to deliver engineering, advisory and operational solutions to some of the world’s most complex and critical challenges in energy and materials.
What we can offer
- Meaningful and interesting projects we support green hydrogen and fuel switching, as well as supporting local clients with energy transition
- Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team and individual needs offering hybrid working arrangements
- Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
- Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
- Flexible benefits package; inclusive of 33 days annual leave (including public holidays), generous contributory pension scheme, private medical cover, 4x base salary life insurance; all of these and more that can be adapted to suit your own lifestyle
- Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
- Global connections; join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession
Responsibilities
- Contribute to setting up the initial implementation plan - detailing resource requirements, risks, scope and budget required to deliver
- Working with Delivery Manager and Stream leads to determine required timeframes for phasing of the project
- Assist in the planning and delivery of the key implementation phases of Discovery, Testing, Cutover and Hypercare
- Preparation of project organisation charts
- Accountable for the planning and facilitation of Oracle Discovery sessions
- Key contributor to producing structured outputs to support the Discovery White Paper and RTM gap analysis
- Manages integrated project schedules and cutover planning, driving MS Project Plan
- Responsible for all testing readiness activities across each test phase, ensuring full compliance with governance and audit requirements
- Accountable for the administration of QAComplete, ensuring effective management of testing processes and RAID tracking
- Manages the stage gate process, including the setup, chairing gate meetings, facilitation, and follow-up of actions
- Create the weekly status slides to report on project progress to Steering and Leadership team
- Able to deputise for the Project / Delivery Manager as required
- Chairing daily team calls and ensuring regular reviews and reports on project progress to senior management, sponsors, and internal stakeholders. Ensuring to flag any early signs of schedule or budget slippage in order to agree corrective actions
Qualifications
What makes you remarkable?
At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.
Expected:
- Degree qualified, or relevant industry experience in similar project delivery role
- Previous experience in a similar ERP implementation delivery role
- Knowledge and experience of stakeholder and requirements management
- Knowledge and experience of standard project delivery methodology, with experience in AIM preferable
- Detailed knowledge of different project phasing, entry / exit criteria and governance requirements
- Awareness of project delivery processes and tools
- Able to effectively work with multi-disciplinary teams on regional and global levels
- Self-motivating, able to assume responsibility over broad objectives, priorities, and deadlines with minimal supervision
- Basic knowledge and able to articulate business benefits of systems and business processes
- Knowledge of IT system delivery and change management processes aligned with a strong understanding of business operations and strategy
Desirable:
- Qualified or working towards a recognised Project Manager qualification
Personal attributes:
- Demonstrates leadership capability and behaviours in line with the Wood leadership framework
- Understand and champion the core values providing an example to staff and colleagues
- Demonstrate ability to drive change and influence key stakeholders in a global and matrix organisation environment
- Strong interpersonal skills to build productive relationships based on a business and commercial understanding
- The ability to work in a high-pressure, rapidly changing environment whilst dealing with ambiguity and diverse options
- Open and honest sharing of experience and performance whether successful or not
- Ability to understand and articulate complex concepts in a clear and simple manner
- Respectful of the opinions of others but ready to make decisions in a considerate way
- Positive, energetic and driven
- Works across all levels of the organisation with a high degree of autonomy and minimal supervision
- Team player and ability to work well across a remote global team
- Disciplined, organised, self-motivated, and focused on delivering results
