Director, Central Programs

Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Director of Central Programs to lead strategic initiatives and drive operational excellence across the Infrastructure Planning and Sourcing organization. This leader will translate organizational priorities into integrated programs that support the timely, cost-effective delivery of infrastructure capacity.

The Director will build and lead a central programs team responsible for portfolio governance, cross-functional execution, and continuous improvement. Working closely with capacity acquisition, engineering, data center delivery and construction teams, business operations, and finance leaders, this role will connect long-term strategy with measurable execution.

The successful candidate combines strategic judgment with operational discipline, brings clarity to complex decisions, and builds accountability across a fast-moving, global organization.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Program Leadership

• Translate business priorities into a coordinated portfolio of initiatives with clear outcomes, milestones, owners, and success measures.
• Lead complex programs spanning infrastructure planning and sourcing, aligning capacity requirements, supply availability, commercial considerations, and delivery commitments.
• Establish portfolio priorities and resource recommendations, helping leadership evaluate tradeoffs and resolve competing demands.
• Identify dependencies, anticipate execution risks, and drive timely decisions and corrective actions.

Organizational Governance

• Establish consistent program management practices, decision forums, and escalation mechanisms.
• Partner with leadership to align program plans with budgets, headcount, and investment priorities.
• Prepare clear executive communications that explain performance, risks, decisions required, and recommended actions.

Performance and Process Improvement

• Define metrics and dashboards that provide visibility into program delivery, planning effectiveness, sourcing milestones, and organizational performance.
• Improve the processes and handoffs connecting planning, sourcing, and infrastructure delivery.
• Partner with analytics and systems teams to strengthen data quality, automate reporting, and improve decision support.
• Lead change management to ensure new processes and tools are adopted and deliver sustained results.

People and Stakeholder Leadership

• Build, develop, and lead a high-performing team of program managers.
• Establish clear expectations, coach emerging leaders, and foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
• Build trusted partnerships across technical, operational, financial, and commercial teams.
• Influence stakeholders across organizational boundaries and maintain alignment through changing priorities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of experience in program management, infrastructure planning, strategic sourcing, supply chain, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of people management experience, including leading teams responsible for complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Demonstrated success delivering large-scale programs in cloud infrastructure, data centers, hardware, or similarly complex technical environments.
• Experience establishing portfolio governance, operating mechanisms, and performance measurement for a growing organization.
• Strong analytical judgment
• Excellent executive communication, stakeholder management, and organizational change skills.
• Ability to operate effectively with ambiguity, establish priorities, and drive execution across global teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting hyperscale infrastructure expansion or global capacity delivery.
• Familiarity with demand and capacity planning, supplier management, procurement, and infrastructure deployment lifecycles.
• Experience building or scaling a central program management function.
• Experience improving enterprise planning, reporting, and workflow systems.
• MBA or an advanced degree in engineering, supply chain, operations, or a related field.

What Success Looks Like

• Leadership has a clear, reliable view of priorities, performance, risks, and decisions.
• Critical programs meet agreed milestones and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Planning and sourcing teams work through consistent processes with clear ownership and fewer execution gaps.
• The organization scales through stronger operating practices, better data, and a capable central programs team.

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: $126,200 to $264,100 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 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.

As part of Oracle's 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.