Oracle Fusion Program Director

University of New Mexico • Albuquerque, NM

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The University of New Mexico (UNM) is seeking an exceptional leader to direct its Oracle Cloud Transformation. This initiative is a critical strategic investment aimed at shaping the future of a premier flagship research university by modernizing core administrative systems and enhancing operational effectiveness. The Director will play a defining leadership role, reporting directly to the Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration. This role is responsible for the successful delivery of UNM’s Oracle Cloud Transformation, including the implementation of Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications across ERP/Finance, Human Capital Management, and Enterprise Performance Management. The position operates at an executive level, bridging the Steering Committee and the Executive team, ensuring alignment between institutional strategy and program execution across key departments. The Director will guide organizational change, stakeholder engagement, communication, and adoption efforts to achieve sustainable outcomes in a highly matrixed environment. This role involves partnership with the Chief Information Officer, Chief Human Resources Officer, University Controller, and Director of Enterprise Applications, focusing on a sustainable operating model for the future.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and at least 10 years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified.
• Completed degree(s) from an accredited institution that are above the minimum education requirement may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated success delivering full lifecycle enterprise system implementations
• Experience managing complex, cross-functional teams and external partners
• Demonstrated success leading organizational change and stakeholder engagement initiatives within large-scale enterprise transformations
• Strong program management, financial oversight, and risk management skills
• Strong communication skills, and a proven ability to build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups with competing priorities
• Experience in higher education or similarly complex organizations
• Expertise leading Oracle implementations in higher education, healthcare, or other complex matrixed organizations
• Experience leading programs with multiple workstreams across Finance, HCM, and Planning/Budgeting, or comparable enterprise functions
• Experience working with 3rd party Implementation partners
• Strong understanding of Oracle Fusion Cloud applications such as ERP, HCM, and EPM
• Experience leading business process transformation in complex, decentralized organizations.

Responsibilities

• Translate executive vision into a cohesive enterprise systems modernization
• Ensure alignment with UNM 2040 priorities and institutional strategy, maintaining a One University approach program-wide
• Serve as primary liaison to the Executive Sponsor and Steering Committee, ensuring alignment on priorities and decision-making
• Build upon existing approaches at UNM to establish and enforce governance structures, decision rights, and escalation paths
• Build upon existing approaches at UNM to develop and execute a comprehensive enterprise transformation strategy encompassing organizational change management, communications, stakeholder engagement, training, and adoption
• Lead enterprise business process redesign aligned to best practices and foster alignment amongst stakeholders to support adoption
• Prepare and deliver executive-level communications, recommendations, and status updates to sponsors, governance bodies, and institutional stakeholders
• Own program scope integrity and prevent fragmentation across functional areas
• Identify and manage enterprise-level risks and interdependencies
• Resolve conflicts between units and drive enterprise solutions
• Provide executive oversight of system integrator and software vendor, in close coordination with UNM IT
• Responsible for program financial performance, including budget management, contract expenditures, forecasting, and reporting
• Define and monitor measures of program success, adoption, and business value realization to ensure the transformation delivers the intended outcomes
• Build upon existing approaches at UNM to solidify the foundations for long-term enterprise system governance, operational ownership, and continuous improvement following implementation

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• educational benefits through the tuition remission and dependent education programs
• hiring incentive

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive