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Oversees the development and execution of comprehensive risk mitigation strategies, driving alignment across multiple teams and executive leadership on these strategies. Establishes the vision and strategic direction for technical program improvement across the group, embedding best practices into organization-wide initiatives and ensuring long-term operational excellence and scalability. Leads meetings with executive-level stakeholders to align priorities, drive collaboration, and achieve technical program objectives. Guides technical programs and initiatives to improve efficiency, setting strategic direction for teams to shape these programs. Oversees the technical execution of reporting and analytics initiatives, ensuring enhancements to group-wide technical program execution. Fosters strategic relationships with internal Oracle teams as a technical liaison, ensuring a collaborative approach to achieving organizational objectives and customer success within Oracle commitments.\n\nKey\nResponsibilities\nTechnical\nManagement and Execution - Technical Management:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Oversees\nthe delivery of products or services, implementing and ensuring compliance with\nall third party, security, export, accessibility, and legal compliance requirements.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Leverages\ntechnical knowledge to identify risks, manage scope, estimate program\ntimelines, request feasibility, testing requirements, and determine appropriate\nresources.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Leads\nstrategic oversight and direction for the group's response to critical security\nescalations, ensuring appropriate access to information, adjusting timelines,\nand communicating assessed risks and potential mitigation strategies with\nexecutives to align on the optimal proposed path to resolution.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Drives\nstrategic forecasting of program demands and resource allocation, collaborating\nwith key stakeholders to validate predictions and optimize resource allocation.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Drives\nthe continuous evolution of processes to enhance the reliability, resilience,\nand scalability of the products or services, leveraging cutting-edge\ntechnologies and best practices.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Develops\nstrategic priorities and plans regarding maintenance activities and ad-hoc\nmaintenance.\nTechnical\nManagement and Execution - Technical Strategy and Execution:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Utilizes\ntechnical knowledge to identify and manage program dependencies and risks.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Supports\nrapid response to escalations, coordinating within the group and communicating\nto group members to assess risk, determine mitigation strategies, and execute\nthe optimal proposed path to resolution.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Defines\nglobal strategies for various products, including transitions to Oracle Cloud\ninfrastructure, positioning the organization for successful innovation.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Establishes\nglobal delivery standards and guidelines, ensuring alignment with Oracle best\npractices.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Engages\nand leads global initiatives through all phases of Implementation, Incident,\nProblem, and Organizational Change activities, including process automations.\nProgram\nOversight - Strategy and Decision-Making:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Oversees\nguidance provided to team members, ensuring excellence in managing customer\ninteractions, service teams, and stakeholders.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Oversees\nand forecasts the scope, milestones, and objectives for each program,\norchestrating the collaboration of teams to drive the successful delivery of\nprograms within their span of control.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Scopes\nand refines key performance indicators (KPIs) and develops measurement methods\nto monitor, evaluate, and optimize group performance against established goals\n(e.g., scope, timelines, deliverable quality).\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Drives a\nculture of effective collaboration and alignment of priorities, developing a\ncommunication strategy with partners and customers to achieve group goals.\nProgram\nOversight - Program and Operations Management:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Oversees\nstrategies that streamline comprehensive program plans that outline the\nmanagement process for technical, non-technical, and cross-organizational scope\nimpacting products and business.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Oversees\nthe work of program staff (e.g., development, quality assurance, customer\nsuccess), developing strategies that ensure successful identification and\nmitigation of barriers, including risks and issues in workflows.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Shapes\nthe long-term strategy for comprehensive program documentation (e.g., status\nreports, program plans), driving alignment with group objectives and business\npriorities.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Engages\nwith senior leadership to communicate program expectations, progress, and\nchallenges, ensuring program management best practices are embedded at all\nlevels.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Sets the\nstrategy for program governance meetings, ensuring alignment across the\norganization and with senior leadership.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Creates\nand champions strategies to lead and direct global teams in achieving\noperational or functional goals, ensuring alignment with customer service level\nagreements (SLAs), and productivity targets.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Oversees\nforecasting program demands, funding, and resourcing, ensuring alignment with\nprogram goals.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Sets the\nstrategy for change management initiatives for programs, such as priority,\nscope, scheduling, or requirement changes.\nProgram\nOversight - Risk Management:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Oversees\nthe development and execution of comprehensive risk mitigation strategies,\ndriving alignment across multiple teams, departments, and senior leadership on\nthese strategies.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Provides\noversight on the analysis of costs, benefits, and return on investment (ROI),\nensuring optimized program outcomes and group success.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Leverages\nextensive technical expertise and resource options to champion seamless\nsolution delivery and widespread adoption.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Shapes\ngroup adoption strategies, influencing technical resource investments and\nexecutive stakeholders to drive long-term innovation and business\ntransformation.\nProcess\nEfficiency - Process Optimization:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Establishes\nthe vision and strategic direction for program improvement across the group,\nembedding best practices into group-wide initiatives and ensuring long-term\noperational excellence and scalability.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Oversees\nthe testing, implementation, and optimization of initiatives and solutions to\nachieve operational excellence and exceed business goals.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Sets\ndirection for optimizing methodologies, ensuring seamless program execution,\ncross-functional collaboration, and the achievement of exceptional team and\nprogram outcomes.\nProcess\nEfficiency - Continuous Improvement:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Drives\ninnovation through continuous improvement methodologies, ensuring group-wide\noperational efficiencies.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Shapes\nstrategic decision-making by embedding data-driven decision-making into broader\nbusiness processes.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Provides\nstrategic priorities for initiatives to drive the direction of efforts to\nadvance solution availability, reliability, and security.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Iterates\nprocesses based on feedback and KPIs, analyzing results through retrospectives.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Reviews\nthe definition of requirements and configurations of existing and new\ndevelopment tools, where applicable, in accordance with group goals and OKRs.\nCollaboration\nand Program Leadership - Cross Functional Collaboration:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Leads\nmeetings with senior leader stakeholders to align priorities, drive\ncollaboration, and achieve program objectives.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Consults\nand advises department leaders to improve teamwork, streamline processes, and\nenhance operational efficiency across the group.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Shares\nprogram updates and plans to senior leader stakeholders, communicating complex\ninformation and driving informed decision-making processes.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Enhances\nstakeholder engagement to inform and shape decision-making, improving the\nexecution of programs across the group.\nCollaboration\nand Program Leadership - Program Leadership:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Guides\nprograms and initiatives to improve group efficiency, setting strategic\ndirection for teams to shape these programs.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Identifies\nareas for improvement, develops and executes comprehensive change management\nstrategies, and ensures successful adoption of new processes or systems.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Advises\non the development and execution of strategic plans and initiatives, aligning\nthem with group goals and objectives.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Ensures\nthat the program team and other stakeholders are aligned with the program goals\nand motivated, identifying and addressing conflicts and issues.\nData\nand Analysis:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Oversees\nthe execution of reporting and analytics initiatives, ensuring enhancements to\ngroup-wide program execution.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Aligns\nefforts across the group, driving consistency in solving highly complex problems\nimpacting the success of the program(s), including adherence to service level\nagreements (SLAs).\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Conducts\nanalysis and reviews results of the analysis, which may include competitive\nanalysis, trend analysis, and KPI analysis, to drive data-informed decisions to\nsupport the program goals, presenting findings with immediate 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