Sr. Executive Sponsor

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · United States

This role is for a Sr. Executive Sponsor within Oracle Health Federal Consulting's Transformation Office. The primary focus is on providing senior executive sponsorship, decision-making support, and cross-functional alignment for transformation priorities. The role involves resolving enterprise-level impediments, clarifying priorities, reinforcing accountability, and sponsoring governance forums. It requires extensive experience in leading complex initiatives, stakeholder influence, issue resolution, and strategic prioritization within a matrixed enterprise environment, particularly in healthcare IT and federal consulting.

What you'd actually do

  1. Champion the Transformation Office mandate and reinforce its role in advancing automation, governance, operational measurement, and executive visibility.
  2. Provide senior executive sponsorship and decision-making support when issues require alignment across Federal Consulting, Oracle Health Government Services, Product, Engineering, IT, Finance, Security, Deal Desk, Business Management, or Delivery.
  3. Partner with functional leaders to resolve enterprise-level impediments that exceed the authority or scope of the Transformation Office Lead or workstream owners.
  4. Ensure cross-functional leaders are accountable for timely decisions, actions, and commitments that affect delivery timelines, program health, and transformation outcomes.
  5. Sponsor executive governance routines, including steering reviews, priority-setting discussions, and escalation forums.

Skills

Required

  • Executive sponsorship and senior stakeholder influence
  • Enterprise-level issue resolution and escalation management
  • Cross-functional accountability and decision facilitation
  • Strategic prioritization and sequencing across multiple teams
  • Governance leadership, steering reviews, and executive escalation forums
  • Ability to resolve conflicts involving ownership, funding, and delivery priorities
  • Clear communication with senior executives, functional leaders, and operational teams
  • Strong business judgment in complex, fast-paced environments
  • Ability to reinforce role clarity across the Transformation Office and functional teams
  • At least 10 years of total combined related work experience and completed higher education, including experience in consulting, healthcare information technology, program management, client delivery, consulting operations, product operations, or enterprise transformation.
  • 5+ years of experience leading cross-functional transformation, consulting, delivery, operations, or executive governance in a complex enterprise environment.
  • Experience providing executive-level sponsorship, stakeholder alignment, or decision facilitation for major initiatives.
  • 7+ years of leadership experience in a functional, technical, consulting, operational, or delivery role.
  • Ability to obtain Federal security clearance (Public Trust) necessary for this role, which requires being a US citizen and residing in the US.
  • Experience working across matrixed teams and holding leaders accountable for decisions, actions, and timelines.
  • Demonstrated ability to resolve complex issues involving ownership, funding, sequencing, prioritization, delivery timelines, or program health.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with executive, functional, and operational audiences.
  • Experience using governance routines, metrics, and structured decision forums to drive outcomes.
  • Strong business judgment and ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.

Nice to have

  • Prior experience in Oracle Health, healthcare IT, Federal Consulting, or federal healthcare delivery environments.
  • Experience sponsoring or leading a Transformation Office, PMO, strategic operations, process improvement, or enterprise governance function.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders without direct authority.
  • Familiarity with automation, delivery measurement, program health metrics, and executive dashboards.
  • Experience partnering with Product, Engineering, IT, Risk, Finance, Security, De

What the JD emphasized

  • senior stakeholder alignment
  • clear decision rights
  • governance discipline
  • consistent follow-through
  • resolving issues involving ownership, funding, sequencing, prioritization, and delivery risk
  • communicate effectively with executives and cross-functional teams
  • role clarity and accountability
  • resolve conflicts involving ownership, funding, and delivery priorities
  • reinforce role clarity