Job Description
This role is a Senior Principal Program Manager - Cloud Region Strategy part of the Central Strategy team within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This role will help drive strategy, optimization, utilization, demand, customer growth, and operations of OCI's region portfolio, helping to drive growth in the Oracle Cloud business. This team helps steer the ship, drive strategy to execution through systemic planning, analytics, due diligence, and business operations execution. The team is growing, and we need strong contributors to be part of it.
What You'll Do
This is a highly visible role where you will own long-range planning, strategy, execution and data governance across the demand and capacity planning functions of OCI. You will work with a diverse set of team members including senior executives, architects, financial teams, corporate development, product managers, delivery and design teams, and external partners to take ideas, turn them into mature processes, allowing us to aid the world's most fast paced customers.
The successful candidate loves data, puzzles, and process. You'll have a passion for solving difficult and often ambiguous problems in a collaborative, agile work environment, an interest in creativity and innovative thinking, can lead a conversation in a room with any level of staff, influence customers to arrive at the correct outcomes, and finally has a strong sense of emotional intelligence for both customers and engineering teams.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Partner with the demand planning and power planning teams to understand various forms of utilization and provide suggestions to improve across regions.
Work across teams and connect with the sales field team to understand demand and its patterns.
Dive deep into the customer growth and footprint of regions, intrinsically knowing what is happening across the portfolio to help it function and grow.
Help define and deliver complex programs with challenging priorities by influencing roadmaps and priorities of key stakeholders.
Work with cross-functional teams to establish and maintain our roadmap, setting appropriate expectations and ensuring our product and services meet our high operational excellence standards
Ensure high standards and consistency for the Oracle customer experience.
Recommend process improvements and serve as an escalation point for all issues and questions associated with region portfolio.
Ensure that resource requirements needed to support a particular program are in place.
Provide on-going written and verbal release status updates to senior leadership.
Demonstrate flexibility and resilience in response to changing or ambiguous situations, directing changes through appropriate review and approval mechanisms.
Own and drive long-range planning for Oracle region infrastructure for cloud and AI services.
Develop executive-level strategic analyses and presentations for critical business investments.
Qualifications
Bachelor's or master's degree in business, Finance, Data Science, Technology or related field or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.
10+ years' experience in analytics, business program manager, chief of staff, or similar role.
A proven ability to think broadly and strategically, to work across a matrixed organization.
Self-driven problem solver; able to adapt and thrive in a dynamic, ambiguous, and customer-focused environment.
Highly analytical, technically proficient, and able to learn new tools and software quickly.
Understands data center growth, build out, and operations.
Proven understanding of sales field teams, customer growth patterns, and region utilization.
Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate (oral and written) at different levels in the org, engaging with both technical and non-technical team members.
Experience using agile software development practices and associated tooling.
Judgement, maturity, negotiation/influence skills, analytical skills, and leadership skills.
Disclaimer:
Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $104,100 to $223,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.
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 Oracle's 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:
Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
Short term disability and long term disability
Life insurance and AD&D
Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
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.
11 paid holidays
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.
Paid parental leave
Adoption assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Financial planning and group legal
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.
Career Level - IC5
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