Director, Business Operations

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Director of Business Operations to drive strategic planning, operational discipline, and business performance across the Infrastructure Planning and Sourcing organization.

This leader will translate organizational priorities into actionable plans, establish clear measures of success, and lead cross-functional initiatives that support infrastructure capacity, supply readiness, and investment efficiency. The role requires strong business judgment, analytical depth, and the ability to align stakeholders across planning, sourcing, engineering, finance, and infrastructure delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Lead strategic and operational planning. Drive annual planning, quarterly portfolio reviews, monthly business reviews, and organizational goal setting. Translate infrastructure priorities into measurable objectives, accountable owners, and execution plans.

Establish business performance management. Develop scorecards and executive reporting that provide visibility into capacity plans, sourcing milestones, supplier performance, financial commitments, and delivery risks.

Drive cross-functional execution. Lead initiatives that improve alignment between infrastructure demand, supply availability, sourcing strategies, and deployment schedules. Resolve dependencies and escalate decisions that affect execution.

Partner on financial planning. Work with Finance and functional leaders to strengthen forecasting, evaluate investment tradeoffs, track performance against plans, and identify opportunities to improve cost and resource efficiency.

Improve processes and decision-making. Standardize planning and reporting practices, clarify decision rights, and streamline handoffs. Partner with analytics and systems teams to improve data quality and automate recurring work.

Develop executive communications. Prepare business reviews, decision papers, and strategic recommendations that turn complex operational and financial information into clear actions.

Build organizational capability. Lead and develop a business operations team, establish clear accountability, and strengthen collaboration across a geographically distributed organization.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in business operations, strategic planning, supply chain operations, infrastructure operations, finance, or a related field.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing teams and complex cross-functional programs.
• Demonstrated success building planning processes, performance management frameworks, and executive reporting for a large, complex organization.
• Strong financial and analytical skills, including experience with forecasting, business cases, scenario analysis, and investment tradeoffs.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business challenges into structured decisions and executable plans.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders, resolve competing priorities, and drive accountability across organizational boundaries.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting recommendations to executive audiences.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, supply chain, finance, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in cloud infrastructure, hyperscale data centers, hardware supply chains, or other capital-intensive technology environments.
• Familiarity with infrastructure capacity planning, strategic sourcing, supplier management, and deployment lifecycles.
• Experience connecting demand forecasts, procurement commitments, supply constraints, and financial plans.
• Experience improving business intelligence, reporting automation, and enterprise planning systems.
• MBA or a relevant advanced degree.

What Success Looks Like

• Leadership has a consistent, trusted view of organizational performance, priorities, and risks.
• Planning and sourcing decisions reflect clear operational and financial tradeoffs.
• Cross-functional commitments have defined owners, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Teams spend less time reconciling information and more time resolving issues and delivering results.
• The organization improves forecast accuracy, execution predictability, and investment efficiency.

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:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• 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.
• 11 paid holidays
• 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.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• 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.