Position Summary
The University of New Mexico seeks an exceptional leader to direct its Oracle Cloud Transformation. This role is more than an implementation; it is an opportunity to shape the future of a flagship research university. Sponsored at the highest levels of university leadership, the transformation 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 UNM’s most important strategic initiatives.
Campus
Main – Albuquerque, NM
Department
Human Resources (730A)
Employment Type
Staff
Staff Type
Regular – Full‑Time
Status
Exempt
Pay
Negotiable, depending on experience
Conditions of Employment
Employees in this job title are subject to the terms and conditions of an employment contract, typically reviewed and renewed annually. As a condition of employment, eligible employees working greater than 0.25 FTE are required to make mandatory retirement contributions under the New Mexico Education Retirement Act. For more information, review the Benefits Eligibility at a Glance grid.
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, as well as educational benefits through tuition remission and dependent education programs.
Key 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.
- 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.
- 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 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‑life‑cycle 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, with 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 third‑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.