Oracle Fusion Program Director

Oracle Fusion Program Director
The University of New Mexico seeks an exceptional leader to direct its Oracle Cloud Transformation. This is more than an implementation; it is an opportunity to help shape the future of a premier flagship research university. This transformation is sponsored at the highest levels of university leadership and represents a critical strategic investment in how UNM serves its students, faculty, staff, and community. The Director will play a defining leadership role in one of the university's most important strategic initiatives.

The Oracle Fusion Program Director is the senior leader responsible for the successful delivery of UNM’s Oracle Cloud Transformation. Reporting directly to UNM’s Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration, the Director will lead the implementation of Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications across the UNM enterprise, including ERP/Finance, Human Capital Management, Enterprise Performance Management, and related Oracle modules. This role ensures alignment between institutional strategy and program execution across Finance, Human Resources, Information Technologies, and the campus community throughout UNM’s Oracle Cloud implementation, and facilitates governance, scope, and outcomes.

This position operates at the executive level, bridging the Steering Committee and the Executive team, and is accountable for ensuring the implementation advances UNM’s strategic priorities and embodies UNM’s One University goal. It represents a significant opportunity to modernize the university’s core administrative systems and enhance operational effectiveness across the UNM enterprise. To ensure successful system implementation, the Director will guide organizational change, stakeholder engagement, communication, and adoption efforts necessary to achieve sustainable outcomes.

The Director must effectively navigate a highly matrixed environment, building consensus among executive leadership, stakeholders in administration, academic affairs, health sciences, and project teams while maintaining focus on enterprise outcomes.

The Director will serve as a member of the leadership team guiding the transformation in partnership with the Chief Information Officer, Chief Human Resources Officer, and University Controller, as well as the Director of Enterprise Applications. Working alongside the leaders who will ultimately operate, govern, resource, and continuously improve these systems, the Director will leverage and build upon existing practices and align program decisions with long‑term operational needs and ensure a sustainable operating model for the future. Success requires influencing without direct authority, building consensus among stakeholders, and ensuring an effective transition from implementation to ongoing operations.

Key Responsibilities

Translate executive vision into a cohesive enterprise systems modernization plan.

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.

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 among 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.

Manage 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.

Solidify the foundations for long‑term enterprise system governance, operational ownership, and continuous improvement following implementation.

Minimum Qualifications
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.

Preferred Qualifications

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.

Benefits
This is a benefits eligible position. The University of New Mexico provides a comprehensive package of benefits including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. In addition, UNM offers educational benefits through the tuition remission and dependent education programs.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Statement
The University of New Mexico is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

Background Checks
All regular staff positions must pass a pre‑employment background check. This may include, but is not limited to, a criminal history background check, New Mexico Department of Health fingerprint screening, New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department fingerprint screening, verification of education credentials, and/or verification of prior employment.

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