Senior Director Business Program Management Leader

Description

This leader will help the EVP stay organized informed and prepared by structuring priorities developing executive briefings tracking commitments and coordinating timely follow-through. They will shadow the EVP in critical internal and external meetings capture key insights and decisions and ensure that the right stakeholders advance the resulting actions.

The role combines strategic planning business and revenue performance management organizational operations and executive effectiveness. It owns management reporting monthly and quarterly business reviews customer business review reporting and preparation for executive engagements with customers analysts media and other key stakeholders.

The successful candidate will bring strong business judgment analytical depth executive presence discretion and the ability to drive alignment and accountability across a large technology organization.

Key responsibilities

Business strategy and execution

• Partner with the EVP SVP and VPs to establish organizational priorities annual operating plans and measurable business objectives.
• Translate strategic priorities into coordinated initiatives with clear owners milestones dependencies and success measures.
• Lead cross-functional programs spanning product engineering infrastructure operations sales finance and other business partners.
• Identify execution risks resolve cross-functional dependencies and elevate decisions that require executive attention.
• Track leadership commitments and ensure decisions result in timely accountable follow-through.

Business and revenue operations

• Own the organizations business operating cadence providing an integrated view of financial performance revenue customer demand capacity and execution.
• Partner with Finance Sales and Revenue Operations to assess performance against plans improve forecast visibility and explain material variances.
• Develop dashboards and executive reporting that highlight trends risks opportunities and recommended actions.
• Coordinate business planning and resource allocation discussions connecting investment decisions to growth priorities and customer commitments.
• Establish consistent definitions reporting standards and processes that improve the quality and reliability of business information.

Organizational operations and workforce planning

• Lead workforce planning and hiring governance in partnership with organizational leaders Finance HR and Talent Acquisition.
• Track approved headcount hiring priorities recruiting progress and staffing gaps against business objectives.
• Manage internal status reporting across key programs operational commitments and organizational priorities.
• Improve planning reporting and decision-making processes as the organization grows.
• Coordinate leadership meetings organizational communications and follow-up on actions and commitments.

Monthly and quarterly business reviews

• Own the end-to-end process for monthly business reviews (MBRs) and quarterly business reviews (QBRs) including agendas reporting narratives and executive materials.
• Consolidate inputs across the organization into a clear assessment of business performance progress against priorities and emerging issues.
• Ensure reviews focus on insights decisions and corrective actions.
• Maintain a consistent record of decisions action items owners and outcomes across review cycles.

Customer reporting and executive engagements

• Lead the preparation and coordination of reporting required for customer QBRs working with account teams product engineering operations and customer-facing leaders.
• Ensure customer review materials accurately reflect business outcomes service performance delivery commitments and open issues.
• Prepare the Compute EVP and other senior leaders for customer meetings analyst briefings media engagements and other executive forums.
• Develop briefing documents presentations talking points anticipated questions and supporting data tailored to each audience.
• Partner with Communications Marketing Analyst Relations and other stakeholders to align messaging and validate external-facing materials.
• Capture meeting outcomes and coordinate follow-through on executive and customer commitments.

Leadership and stakeholder management

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the EVP and senior leadership team providing candid recommendations grounded in business evidence.
• Partner closely with the EVP to manage executive priorities and ensure time preparation and leadership attention support the organizations most critical objectives.
• Shadow the EVP in critical leadership customer and external stakeholder meetings providing context and continuity across engagements.
• Anticipate the EVPs information and preparation needs coordinating briefing materials stakeholder inputs and recommended discussion points.
• Maintain an integrated view of executive commitments decisions and outstanding actions ensuring timely follow-through across the leadership team.
• Work closely with the EVPs executive assistant to align meeting sequencing agendas and preparation with business priorities.
• Build effective working relationships across organizational boundaries and drive alignment where priorities or perspectives differ.
• Lead and develop the business program management team establishing clear responsibilities and high standards for execution.
• Exercise discretion and sound judgment when handling sensitive business customer and organizational information.

Responsibilities

Required qualifications

• Significant experience in business program management business operations strategic planning chief of staff or related leadership roles within a technology organization.
• Demonstrated success partnering with executive leaders and managing complex cross-functional initiatives at organizational scale.
• Strong understanding of business and revenue operations including financial planning forecasting performance analysis and resource management.
• Experience establishing and running MBRs QBRs executive reporting and operational governance.
• Proven ability to turn complex data and diverse stakeholder inputs into clear insights recommendations and executive narratives.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including preparation of executive presentations customer briefings and leadership communications.
• Experience leading teams and influencing senior stakeholders without direct reporting authority.
• Ability to prioritize effectively navigate ambiguity and maintain accuracy and accountability in a fast-moving environment.
• Bachelors degree or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in cloud infrastructure compute platforms AI infrastructure enterprise technology or another infrastructure-intensive business.
• Familiarity with infrastructure economics capacity planning customer consumption and enterprise sales motions.
• Experience supporting senior executives in customer analyst or media engagements.
• Experience scaling business operations across a large geographically distributed organization.
• MBA or another relevant advanced degree.

Measures of success

• Leadership has a timely accurate and actionable view of business and revenue performance.
• Strategic priorities translate into measurable execution with clear ownership and effective resolution of risks and dependencies.
• Hiring and resource plans align with business needs and organizational commitments.
• MBRs and QBRs consistently produce decisions corrective actions and accountable follow-through.
• Customer QBRs and executive engagements are supported by accurate reporting coherent narratives and thorough preparation.
• Business processes scale with the organization while improving decision quality and reducing administrative overhead.

Qualifications
Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements such as immunization/occupational health mandates and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $146300 to $306400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus equity and compensation deferral.


Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge skills experience market conditions and locations as well as reflect Oracles differing products industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical dental and vision insurance including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As part of Oracles onboarding process and consistent with applicable law US-based employees are required to complete identity verification which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.