Sr Director of Program Management

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · Nashville, TN +1

This role is for a Sr. Director of Program Management and Chief of Staff within Oracle, focusing on driving the rhythm of business, managing strategic executive support services, and improving the effectiveness of the leadership team. Responsibilities include product roadmap planning, strategic direction, financial management, HR, metrics reporting, and managing special projects. The role requires strong project management, communication, and cross-organizational coordination skills, with a focus on enabling effective execution and distilling complex information into simple messages.

What you'd actually do

  1. Helping the SVP/leadership team filter/balance key priorities of the business.
  2. Translating dialogs/strategy into actions and/or projects that achieve leadership-expected outcomes.
  3. Building operational rhythms and calendars which anticipate the delivery needs of the organization and enable the leadership team to operate effectively and efficiently.
  4. Managing cadence, agenda/logistics for org-wide ceremonies (e.g. All Hands) and leadership meetings.
  5. Developing and managing annual, semi-annual, and quarterly processes specific to roadmapping and goal-development, plus refreshing strategy and technical priorities.

Skills

Required

  • business operations
  • program management
  • budgeting and financial planning
  • growth development
  • business management
  • communications
  • executive leadership influence
  • project management
  • complexity management
  • strategic thinking
  • cross-organization coordination
  • presentation and communication material development
  • interpersonal skills
  • relationship building
  • trust building
  • influence
  • data-drive decision making
  • technical aptitude

Nice to have

  • Chief of Staff experience
  • SVP/Leadership Team support

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of broad related experience such as business operations, program management, budgeting and financial planning, growth development, business management, and communications.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence and enable executive leadership on complex business topics, plus ability to effectively collaborate, influence, and leverage outside resources to drive results.
  • Strong project management skills and ability to lead multiple high-profile projects of varying timelines simultaneously.
  • Ability to manage a high degree of complexity and to distill information into simple messages; able to think both strategically at a global level as well as effectively developing key processes.
  • Exceptional cross-organization coordination and communication skills including ability to build comprehensive and compelling presentation and communication materials that span functions and groups.
  • Strong interpersonal skills including ability to build trust, influence, and foster relationships with diverse team members; ability to leverage relationships to drive consistency of approach and ensure delivery.
  • Ability to balance varying responsibilities that span rhythm of business, communications, executive management, and culture.