Vice President - Delivery

Oracle Consulting & Professional Services

Position Level: Executive Leadership

Business Scope: $300M+ Global Professional Services Organization

Reports To:

Chief Client Officer / Business Unit President

Geographic Scope:
Global — North America, EMEA, APAC, and Offshore Delivery Centers

The Chief Delivery Officer (CDO) / Global Delivery Leader is responsible for the strategic direction, operational performance, financial results, and overall execution of a global Oracle consulting and professional services organization generating $300+ million or more in annual revenue.

This executive leads a geographically distributed organization delivering complex Oracle Cloud SaaS, Oracle Technology, and enterprise transformation programs for large and multinational clients. The successful candidate has progressed from hands-on Oracle project delivery through program, portfolio, and executive leadership roles.

The role combines Oracle ecosystem expertise, large-scale P&L management, global delivery operations, executive client engagement, and the ability to translate business strategy into measurable operational results. A central mandate is embedding AI, automation, standardized methodologies, and innovative delivery models to improve productivity, quality, scalability, and profitability.

• Define and execute global delivery strategy aligned with growth, financial commitments, and Oracle practice priorities.
• Lead a $300M+ global services organization across geographies, industries, and service lines.
• Establish a scalable onshore, nearshore, and offshore operating model.
• Translate enterprise strategy into delivery plans, operating priorities, and measurable results.
• Build capabilities supporting growth, service expansion, acquisitions, and changing market demands.
• Develop a high-performing global leadership team with clear financial, operational, and client accountability.
• Partner with Sales, Practice Leadership, Finance, HR, and executive management to align commitments and execution.

• Own revenue, gross margin, contribution margin, operating expenses, profitability, and delivery-related financial commitments for a $300M+ business.
• Establish financial governance and deliver revenue and profitability objectives.
• Optimize utilization, realization, billable capacity, resource productivity, and delivery costs.
• Oversee forecasting, backlog conversion, project financial performance, and resource demand planning.
• Manage financial and delivery controls for time-and-materials, fixed-price, managed services, and outcome-based engagements.
• Improve margins through delivery efficiency, global leverage, workforce optimization, and automation.
• Manage overruns, scope changes, contract obligations, and delivery-related commercial risk.

• Provide executive oversight for Oracle implementations, modernization, and enterprise transformation programs.
• Apply progressive experience from project execution through increasingly complex delivery leadership roles.
• Demonstrate knowledge of Oracle Cloud ERP, HCM, SCM, EPM, and CX applications.
• Understand OCI, integration platforms, databases, analytics, and application modernization.
• Oversee multi-workstream programs involving architecture, integration, data migration, change management, and process redesign.
• Set quality controls and governance across Oracle SaaS and Technology practices.
• Sponsor high-risk engagements, lead escalations, and remain informed of Oracle product roadmaps.

• Design and optimize globally integrated onshore, nearshore, and offshore delivery capabilities.
• Clarify accountability across regional leaders, global capability centers, practices, and shared services.
• Balance cost competitiveness, skills availability, quality, and client requirements in workforce strategy.
• Lead resource management, capacity planning, staffing, subcontractor utilization, and productivity.
• Standardize global staffing, utilization, skills development, and performance management processes.
• Maintain flexibility for regional, industry, and client requirements while promoting cross-border collaboration.

• Act as executive sponsor for strategic accounts and major Oracle transformation engagements.
• Build trusted C-suite relationships with CIOs, CFOs, CHROs, and transformation leaders.
• Lead…