Strategic Planning and Organization Program Manager

Job Description

Oracle Research Services is seeking a Strategic Planning and Organization Program Manager to support the Group Vice President. In this role, you will help translate leadership priorities into coordinated action, strengthen executive communications, and improve how the organization plans, makes decisions, and follows through on commitments.

As part of the Office of the Group Vice President, you will be a trusted thought partner to the GVP and work across a complex, matrixed organization. You will partner closely with the leader responsible for strategy execution and the Executive Assistant responsible for executive operations and meeting logistics. Your focus will be executive decision support, leadership meeting content, cross-functional coordination, and organizational effectiveness.

What you will bring

• Experience coordinating complex, concurrent initiatives across multiple functions in a matrixed organization.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to turn complex information into concise executive materials and actionable recommendations.

• Strong planning and program management skills, with attention to detail and consistent follow-through across competing priorities.

• Experience supporting leadership governance, business reviews, executive communications, and recurring planning and reporting processes.

• Sound judgment, executive presence, and discretion when handling sensitive information and supporting leadership decisions.

• Ability to influence without formal authority, build trusted relationships, and establish clarity and structure in ambiguous situations.

• Experience developing practical trackers, frameworks, playbooks, and decision-support materials that improve consistency and execution.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in business operations, strategic planning, program management, or a Chief of Staff capacity, including advising senior executives, leading cross-functional initiatives, and translating business priorities into actionable plans and measurable outcomes.

• 6+ years of experience managing and optimizing structured business processes and frameworks, including cross-functional governance, rhythm of business processes, with a proven ability to drive execution and operational excellence.

• 6+ years of excellent written communication experience, with a proven ability to develop executive-ready materials with minimal guidance from senior leaders.

• 5+ years of experience thriving in fast-paced, matrixed organizations, with a proven ability to drive results independently and without direct team support.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience supporting leaders at the Vice President level or above.

• Healthcare or life sciences industry experience.

• Familiarity with organizational planning, change management, and business process improvement.

The impact you will make

You will help the GVP and leadership team anticipate issues, make timely decisions, and maintain focus on the organization’s highest priorities. Success means clear ownership, reliable follow-through, effective communication, and repeatable ways of working that strengthen execution across Oracle Research Services.

Responsibilities

What you will do

• Advise and support executive leadership. Help the GVP evaluate priorities, resolve issues, and prepare for decisions. Synthesize complex information into clear recommendations, options, risks, decision memos, and talking points.

• Lead the leadership operating rhythm. Design and improve business reviews, executive updates, and leadership decision forums. Prepare business content, clarify decisions and action owners, and drive follow-through on commitments.

• Coordinate cross-functional initiatives. Manage planning, milestones, dependencies, status reporting, and escalations for assigned initiatives. Identify gaps, overlaps, and blockers, and work with accountable leaders to keep priorities moving.

• Strengthen organizational effectiveness. Improve processes, clarify roles and decision ownership, and develop repeatable playbooks, frameworks, trackers, and templates. Support change management for organizational and process improvements.

• Enable clear executive communications. Develop and coordinate internal and external leadership communications, including all-hands content, leadership updates, and newsletters. Tailor messages to the audience and surface organizational feedback and concerns to leadership.

• Maintain visibility into business performance. Support tracking of key performance indicators, objectives and key results, and progress against strategic priorities. Prepare planning and reporting materials and support decisions on resource requests, approvals, and escalations.

• Build alignment across the organization. Partner with service line and Center of Excellence leaders, program owners, and colleagues across strategy, research, product, go-to-market, sales, marketing, technical consulting, HR, finance, operations, and IT.

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: $91,000 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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