Director, Strategic Planning & Program Controls Delivery

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly driven, proactive leader to establish and lead strategic planning, program delivery, and process excellence across a fast-paced, highly cross-functional organization. This leader will bring structure, clarity, and disciplined execution to complex initiatives, ensuring teams are aligned on priorities, risks, dependencies, decisions, and delivery commitments.

The ideal candidate combines the strategic mindset of a program leader with the practical discipline of a process improvement expert. They are comfortable operating through influence across diverse stakeholders, navigating ambiguity, resolving barriers, and turning complex work into clear, executable plans. This role requires a hands-on leader who does not wait for problems to be assigned, but instead identifies opportunities, develops solutions, and drives implementation through to sustained adoption.

While deep subject-matter expertise in data center development is not required on day one, this individual must be technically curious, eager to learn, and energized by the opportunity to understand the complexity of infrastructure and data center build programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and execution of complex, multi-stakeholder programs, ensuring clear scope, priorities, milestones, accountabilities, dependencies, risks, and decision paths.
• Build and continuously improve operating rhythms, planning processes, governance structures, and reporting mechanisms that reduce overhead and improve execution speed, predictability, and transparency.
• Identify process gaps, bottlenecks, and unnecessary complexity; develop practical, scalable solutions and lead their rollout across teams.
• Ensure new processes are not only designed well, but communicated, implemented, adopted, measured, and refined over time.
• Drive cross-functional alignment among technical, operational, commercial, and leadership stakeholders in a rapidly changing environment.
• Proactively surface risks, constraints, resource conflicts, and delivery barriers; facilitate resolution and escalate decisions when appropriate.
• Translate complex technical and business information into clear, concise updates and recommendations for senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Develop portfolio-level views of initiatives, including prioritization, resource needs, schedules, risks, costs, progress, and tradeoffs.
• Establish a culture of accountability, ownership, continuous improvement, and solution-oriented problem solving.
• Mentor, coach, and develop team members, including program managers, project managers, planners, and technical contributors as applicable.
• Partner with project owners, sponsors, and leaders to build credibility through accurate forecasting, transparent communication, and clearly defined expectations.
• Build working knowledge of the technical, operational, and commercial factors that shape data center build programs and use that knowledge to improve planning and delivery outcomes.

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:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. 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 - M4

Responsibilities

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, business, operations, or a related discipline; advanced degree or relevant certifications preferred.
• Approximately 15+ years of progressive experience in program management, project management, engineering, infrastructure delivery, capital programs, operations, or a related field.
• Significant experience leading complex, high-value programs or portfolios involving multiple projects, stakeholders, and competing priorities.
• Demonstrated experience designing, simplifying, standardizing, and implementing business or operational processes at scale.
• Experience leading, coaching, or managing people, with a demonstrated ability to develop strong teams and drive performance.
• Proven ability to influence without direct authority and build alignment across senior leaders, technical teams, and business partners.
• Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to communicate risks, assurances, tradeoffs, progress, and decisions with clarity and credibility.
• Experience with portfolio planning, resource allocation, risk assessment, scheduling, forecasting, prioritization, and performance tracking.
• A disciplined, action-oriented approach to problem solving, with a strong bias toward finding and driving practical solutions.
• Technical curiosity and the ability to quickly learn unfamiliar technical concepts and apply them effectively in a planning and delivery environment.
• Experience supporting capital projects, industrial, mechanical, construction, infrastructure, or data center-related programs is strongly preferred.

Leadership Characteristics

• Takes ownership and moves work forward without waiting for direction.
• Brings focus, urgency, and calm structure to ambiguous or fast-moving situations.
• Holds a high standard for execution, transparency, and follow-through.
• Approaches obstacles as problems to solve, not reasons to delay.
• Builds trust through direct communication, sound judgment, and consistent delivery.
• Balances strategic perspective with a willingness to engage in operational detail.
• Creates clarity for others and enables teams to perform at their best.

Leveling Note

This role is intended to be posted at the Director level. Final leveling may be adjusted based on the selected candidate’s experience, demonstrated leadership scope, and organizational needs.

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