Lead Principal Program Manager

** Job Description*
* Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Lead Principal Technical Program Manager to lead cross-functional analytics programs that turn complex business questions into critical insights, executive decisions, and measurable business results. Within the Business Operations and Central Programs team, you will shape the analytics agenda for high-priority business challenges and lead programs from problem definition through technical delivery, adoption, and outcome measurement.

Your portfolio will span capital expenditure management, revenue operations, cost optimization, and strategic programs, with scope evolving as business priorities change. You will connect financial, commercial, and operational data to explain business performance, anticipate risks, and guide investment and execution across OCI.

** Responsibilities*
* ** What you will lead*
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** Capital expenditure management.
** Partner with Finance, Infrastructure, and Capacity teams to improve visibility into capital plans, commitments, spend, deployment, and asset utilization. Lead analytics that inform investment prioritization, explain variances, and assess capacity and return on investment tradeoffs.

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** Revenue operations.
** Bring together Sales, Finance, Product, and Operations to analyze customer demand, consumption, revenue performance, and growth opportunities. Identify constraints across the customer lifecycle and translate findings into actions that improve forecasting and business execution.

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** Cost optimization.
** Lead programs that expose cost drivers, unit economics, and efficiency opportunities. Align owners on prioritized interventions and validate realized savings with Finance while accounting for service performance and customer impact.

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** Strategic programs.
** Develop business cases, scenarios, and performance measures for emerging priorities, including regional growth, portfolio investments, and operating model improvements. Guide leaders through tradeoffs and track whether initiatives deliver their intended value.

** How you will drive results*
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** Set the analytics program strategy.
** Translate ambiguous executive priorities into a portfolio of decision-focused programs. Define the business questions, hypotheses, success measures, scope, and roadmap; prioritize work by business impact and feasibility.

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** Lead cross-functional execution.
** Establish shared accountability across Finance, Engineering, Data Science, Business Intelligence, Product, Sales, and Operations. Align sponsors and delivery teams on milestones, dependencies, resources, and decision rights; resolve blockers and escalate material risks.

** How you will drive results continued*
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** Provide technical and analytical leadership.
** Translate business needs into data and system requirements. Partner with engineering and analytics teams on data integration, models, analytical methods, and scalable tools. Use exploratory analysis and prototypes when needed to validate assumptions and accelerate delivery.

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** Build trust in the numbers.
** Establish common KPI definitions, accountable data owners, and controls for data quality, lineage, access, and reconciliation. Ensure analyses distinguish facts, assumptions, and uncertainty, and that financial impact is measured consistently.

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** Influence executive decisions.
** Synthesize complex findings into a clear explanation of what is happening, why it matters, and what action to take. Present recommendations, scenarios, and tradeoffs to senior leaders, secure decisions, and align stakeholders around execution.

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** Carry insights through to impact.
** Embed analytics into planning and operating reviews, assign action owners, and track adoption and results against…