Lead Principal Program Manager, Demand Planning

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation in Nashville seeks a Sr. Principal Program Manager to lead the rhythm of business for demand planning across GPU, Compute, Storage, and Network infrastructure.

You will establish operating cadences, governance, and cross-functional mechanisms to ensure timely, decision-ready demand plans are executed across domains. The ideal candidate coordinates complex planning processes, surfaces risks early, and drives accountability among technical, supply chain, finance, and business

Qualifications

• 12+ years of program management, business operations, supply chain, infrastructure planning, or related experience.
• Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional operating cadences in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong understanding of demand planning, supply planning, infrastructure deployment, or capacity planning.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive decisions across organizations with competing priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting and meeting facilitation.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort using data to identify risks, frame tradeoffs, and guide decisions.
• Experience driving process improvement, planning-system adoption, reporting standardization, or automation initiatives.
• Ability to operate effectively with ambiguity while creating structure, accountability, and momentum.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve the demand-planning rhythm of business across GPU, Compute, Storage, and Network.
• Establish clear planning cadences, milestones, inputs, decision forums, and executive reporting mechanisms.
• Coordinate cross-functional reviews to align demand signals, supply constraints, deployment priorities, and capital implications.
• Drive readiness for monthly, quarterly, and long-range planning cycles; ensure inputs are complete, consistent, and delivered on time.
• Identify planning gaps, material risks, data-quality issues, and unresolved decisions; drive owners and timelines to closure.
• Translate complex planning outputs into concise executive updates, decisions, and action plans.
• Partner with domain planning teams to standardize processes, definitions, metrics, and reporting where appropriate.
• Lead strategic programs that improve planning accuracy, scalability, automation, and operational discipline.
• Maintain visibility into key demand, supply, inventory, attainment, and forecast-performance metrics.
• Facilitate alignment across Infrastructure Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, Procurement, and Operations.
• Develop mechanisms to track commitments, decisions, dependencies, and follow-through across the planning organization.

Skills

Demand planning

Cross-functional leadership

Executive reporting

Forecasting

Data analysis

Process improvement

Ambiguity management

Stakeholder management

Planning cadence

Program management

Job description

We are seeking a Sr. Principal Program Manager to lead the rhythm of business for demand planning across GPU, Compute, Storage, and Network infrastructure. This role will establish the operating cadence, governance, and cross-functional mechanisms that ensure demand plans are timely, aligned, decision-ready, and consistently executed across infrastructure domains.

The ideal candidate is an exceptional operator who can coordinate complex planning processes, surface risks and tradeoffs early, and drive accountability across technical, supply chain, finance, and business stakeholders.

Internal Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve the demand-planning rhythm of business across GPU, Compute, Storage, and Network.

• Establish clear planning cadences, milestones, inputs, decision forums, and executive reporting mechanisms.

• Coordinate cross-functional reviews to align demand signals, supply constraints, deployment priorities, and capital implications.

• Drive readiness for monthly, quarterly, and long-range planning cycles; ensure inputs are complete, consistent, and delivered on time.

• Identify planning gaps, material risks, data-quality issues, and unresolved decisions; drive owners and timelines to closure.

• Translate complex planning outputs into concise executive updates, decisions, and action plans.

• Partner with domain planning teams to standardize processes, definitions, metrics, and reporting where appropriate.

• Lead strategic programs that improve planning accuracy, scalability, automation, and operational discipline.

• Maintain visibility into key demand, supply, inventory, attainment, and forecast-performance metrics.

• Facilitate alignment across Infrastructure Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, Procurement, and Operations.

• Develop mechanisms to track commitments, decisions, dependencies, and follow-through across the planning organization.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of program management, business operations, supply chain, infrastructure planning, or related experience.

• Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional operating cadences in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong understanding of demand planning, supply planning, infrastructure deployment, or capacity planning.

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive decisions across organizations with competing priorities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting and meeting facilitation.

• Strong analytical skills and comfort using data to identify risks, frame tradeoffs, and guide decisions.

• Experience driving process improvement, planning-system adoption, reporting standardization, or automation initiatives.

• Ability to operate effectively with ambiguity while creating structure, accountability, and momentum.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in cloud infrastructure, data centers, hardware operations, or large-scale technology environments.

• Experience supporting GPU, compute, storage, and/or network capacity planning.

• Familiarity with financial planning, capital planning, and supply-chain execution.

• Experience leading multi-year transformation or planning-maturity programs.

External Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve the demand-planning rhythm of business across GPU, Compute, Storage, and Network.

• Establish clear planning cadences, milestones, inputs, decision forums, and executive reporting mechanisms.

• Coordinate cross-functional reviews to align demand signals, supply constraints, deployment priorities, and capital implications.

• Drive readiness for monthly, quarterly, and long-range planning cycles; ensure inputs are complete, consistent, and delivered on time.

• Identify planning gaps, material risks, data-quality issues, and unresolved decisions; drive owners and timelines to closure.

• Translate complex planning outputs into concise executive updates, decisions, and action plans.

• Partner with domain planning teams to standardize processes, definitions, metrics, and reporting where appropriate.

• Lead strategic programs that improve planning accuracy, scalability, automation, and operational discipline.

• Maintain visibility into key demand, supply, inventory, attainment, and forecast-performance metrics.

• Facilitate alignment across Infrastructure Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, Procurement, and Operations.

• Develop mechanisms to track commitments, decisions, dependencies, and follow-through across the planning organization.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of program management, business operations, supply chain, infrastructure planning, or related experience.

• Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional operating cadences in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong understanding of demand planning, supply planning, infrastructure deployment, or capacity planning.

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive decisions across organizations with competing priorities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting and meeting facilitation.

• Strong analytical skills and comfort using data to identify risks, frame tradeoffs, and guide decisions.

• Experience driving process improvement, planning-system adoption, reporting standardization, or automation initiatives.

• Ability to operate effectively with ambiguity while creating structure, accountability, and momentum.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in cloud infrastructure, data centers, hardware operations, or large-scale technology environments.

• Experience supporting GPU, compute, storage, and/or network capacity planning.

• Familiarity with financial planning, capital planning, and supply-chain execution.

• Experience leading multi-year transformation or planning-maturity programs.