Business Operations Program Manager, Global Business Planning, Supply Chain Management (IC4)
Description -----------
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a highly motivated Business Operations Program Manager to support the Vice President of Global Business Planning, Supply Chain Management. This role will help drive the operating rhythm, cross-functional coordination, strategic planning, and program execution required to scale OCI’s global AI hyperscaler data center infrastructure.
The VP of Global Business Planning oversees global strategy and sourcing for OCI data centers. This Business Operations Program Manager will translate executive priorities into actionable plans, provide clear visibility into business performance and supply-chain risks, and help coordinate decisions across a complex global ecosystem of suppliers, contract manufacturers, engineering teams, capacity planners, finance partners, and logistics providers.
The ideal candidate is an organized, analytical program manager who is comfortable operating across global supply chain strategy, strategic sourcing, manufacturing, capacity planning, delivery execution, and infrastructure readiness. They will bring structure to high-priority initiatives, manage dependencies across teams, and ensure leaders have the information needed to make timely, well-informed decisions.
This is a hands-on individual contributor role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, can manage multiple workstreams, and communicates effectively with both operational teams and senior executives.
Responsibilities ----------------
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with the VP of Global Business Planning and their leadership team to coordinate strategic priorities, operating rhythms, business reviews, and cross-functional initiatives.
- Translate leadership direction into actionable workplans with clear milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, decisions, and success measures.
- Drive program management for initiatives supporting global supply strategy, manufacturing capacity, strategic sourcing, supplier execution, data center delivery, inventory health, and infrastructure readiness.
- Coordinate daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly execution cadences, including supply-and-demand reviews, supplier performance reviews, capacity planning forums, infrastructure readiness reviews, risk escalations, and executive business reviews.
- Gather, synthesize, and communicate program status, strategic risks, decision requirements, tradeoffs, and mitigation progress for executive and operational audiences.
- Develop executive-ready presentations, dashboards, scorecards, and meeting materials that provide clear visibility into supply availability, supplier performance, manufacturing readiness, delivery performance, capacity risks, inventory exposure, and overall program health.
- Track and analyze key operational metrics, including supplier commit attainment, capacity availability, manufacturing schedule adherence, on-time delivery, lead times, backlog aging, inventory turns, excess and obsolete inventory exposure, expedite cost, and infrastructure deployment readiness.
- Support strategic sourcing and supply-continuity efforts for critical technology categories, including GPUs, CPUs, memory, storage, networking, power systems, cooling, racks, and interconnect infrastructure.
- Partner with Engineering, Finance, Capacity Planning, Quality, Global Sourcing, Manufacturing, Logistics, and product teams to align supply-chain plans with OCI growth forecasts, infrastructure roadmaps, and customer commitments.
- Identify risks and dependencies early; coordinate mitigation actions across stakeholders; and escalate issues requiring leadership decisions.
- Support constrained-supply, allocation, and capacity-prioritization decisions by organizing scenario inputs, documenting assumptions and tradeoffs, tracking decisions, and following through on committed actions.
- Facilitate alignment among suppliers, contract manufacturers, sourcing, planning, logistics, warehouse operations, finance, engineering, quality, and infrastructure deployment teams.
- Maintain clear action logs, decision records, risk registers, and follow-up mechanisms that strengthen accountability and execution consistency.
- Identify opportunities to simplify reporting, reduce manual work, and improve operating efficiency through process standardization, automation, AI-enabled tools, and improved data visibility.
- Support continuous-improvement efforts that strengthen planning accuracy, supplier performance management, exception management, escalation paths, and end-to-end execution discipline.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
- 5+ years of experience in program management, business operations, supply chain, manufacturing operations, strategic sourcing, capacity planning, logistics, or a related field.
- Experience coordinating complex cross-functional programs with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, deadlines, and executive visibility.
- Strong ability to build and maintain program plans, track actions and risks, manage decision processes, and drive follow-through across teams without direct authority.
- Experience developing concise, executive-ready presentations, dashboards, business reviews, and status communications.
- Strong analytical skills and comfort working with operational data, metrics, forecasts, and reporting tools to identify trends, communicate tradeoffs, and support decisions.
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage competing priorities in a changing global environment.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor information for operational and executive leadership audiences.
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder-management skills across technical, operational, and business functions.
- Familiarity with global supply chain, materials management, manufacturing, fulfillment, inventory, capacity planning, or hardware operations.
- Proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and collaboration tools; experience using AI or automation tools to improve productivity is a plus.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting a Vice President, senior leadership team, Chief of Staff, or business operations function.
- Experience in high-tech hardware, cloud infrastructure, AI infrastructure, external manufacturing, or complex global supply-chain environments.
- Familiarity with hyperscale data center infrastructure and the supply chains supporting semiconductors, compute platforms, networking, power, cooling, and data center deployment.
- Experience supporting strategic sourcing, supplier performance management, supply continuity, manufacturing capacity planning, order fulfillment, infrastructure deployment, or excess and obsolete inventory mitigation.
- Familiarity with supply-planning, ERP, inventory-management, procurement, capacity-planning, or reporting systems.
- Experience with Power BI, Oracle Analytics, Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, Power Automate, or similar reporting and automation tools.
- PMP, Agile, Lean Six Sigma, or comparable program-management certification.
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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: $102,300 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.
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. 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.
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