Oracle Fusion Program Director

Key Responsibilities:

The Director leads with a proactive, highly collaborative approach, building trusted partnerships across the university while maintaining accountability for enterprise outcomes.

• Translate executive vision into a cohesive enterprise systems modernization
• Ensure alignment with Client 2040 priorities and institutional strategy, maintaining a One University approach program-wide
• Serve as primary liaison to the Executive Sponsor and Steering Committee, ensuring alignment on priorities and decision-making
• Build upon existing approaches at Client to establish and enforce governance structures, decision rights, and escalation paths
• Build upon existing approaches at Client to develop and execute a comprehensive enterprise transformation strategy encompassing organizational change management, communications, stakeholder engagement, training, and adoption
• Lead enterprise business process redesign aligned to best practices and foster alignment amongst stakeholders to support adoption
• Prepare and deliver executive-level communications, recommendations, and status updates to sponsors, governance bodies, and institutional stakeholders
• Own program scope integrity and prevent fragmentation across functional areas
• Identify and manage enterprise-level risks and interdependencies
• Resolve conflicts between units and drive enterprise solutions
• Provide executive oversight of system integrator and software vendor, in close coordination with Client IT
• Responsible for program financial performance, including budget management, contract expenditures, forecasting, and reporting
• Define and monitor measures of program success, adoption, and business value realization to ensure the transformation delivers the intended outcomes
• Build upon existing approaches at Client to solidify the foundations for long-term enterprise system governance, operational ownership, and continuous improvement following implementation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 10 years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated success delivering full lifecycle enterprise system implementations
• Experience managing complex, cross-functional teams and external partners
• Demonstrated success leading organizational change and stakeholder engagement initiatives within large-scale enterprise transformations
• Strong program management, financial oversight, and risk management skills
• Strong communication skills, and a proven ability to build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups with competing priorities
• Experience in higher education or similarly complex organizations
• Expertise leading Oracle implementations in higher education, healthcare, or other complex matrixed organizations
• Experience leading programs with multiple workstreams across Finance, HCM, and Planning/Budgeting, or comparable enterprise functions
• Experience working with 3rd party Implementation partners
• Strong understanding of Oracle Fusion Cloud applications such as ERP, HCM, and EPM
• Experience leading business process transformation in complex, decentralized organizations.