Principal Technical Program Manager - GPU Demand Planning

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 102,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Paid sick leave

Job summary

Oracle Corporation in Austin, TX seeks a Principal GPU Demand Planner to drive long-range forecasting for datacenter capacity, integrating BI, AI/ML insights, and supply chain data. You will map customer requirements to GPU infrastructure and coordinate with product, engineering, finance, and operations.

Responsibilities include building end-to-end demand models, generating scenarios, and leading strategic planning with senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering or related fields.
• 7+ years in large-scale AI/ML datacenter capacity planning and project management.
• Extensive experience in developing demand plans and forecasts for new and existing products.
• Understand impact of revenue goals, customer usage, overhead and buffer, data center space and power availability on capacity management.
• Experienced with forecasting and demand planning for server storage and networking.
• Advanced in Excel modeling and building complex forecasting models with multiple inputs to drive recommendations and decisions.
• Experienced with infrastructure hardware, memory, CPU, JBoDs, servers, etc. Read and interpret product BOM and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Develop, iterate, and maintain end-to-end long-range demand planning models at the customer, initiative, SKU, and geo level.
• Build demand plans based on strategic goals, business trends, and inputs from stakeholders.
• Socialize demand plans with senior leaders in capacity planning and operations, supply chain, engineering, customer management, and finance.
• Identify demand forecast risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Facilitate balance between long-range planning and short-term execution.
• Collaborate with product management to understand product lifecycle and its forecasting impact.
• Provide inputs and analysis of demand data to management, finance, and operations for S&OP processes.
• Develop routine and ad-hoc demand analyses and reports for senior management.
• Maintain demand planning review processes to improve forecast accuracy.
• Lead AI/ML datacenter capacity planning and multi-billion-dollar infrastructure deals.

Skills

Forecasting

Excel modeling

Data analytics

BOM interpretation

Supply chain planning

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or related field

Tools

Excel

BI tools

Job description

Principal Technical Program Manager - GPU Demand Planning

• Austin, TX, United States
• Job Identification 342288
• Job Category Manufacturing and Distribution
• Job Type Regular Employee
• Does this position require a security clearance? No
• Years 6 to 10+ years
• Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages English

Job Description

We're seeking a Principal GPU Demand Planner who enables the strategy and execution of forecasting and decision making through a strong combination of modeling, business intelligence, and market and industry trend analysis. An ideal candidate possesses a deep experience in developing data analytics, creating scenario analysis, and partnering supply management functions. The Principal GPU Demand Planner possesses advanced knowledge of process improvement, and actively drives iteration and new learning into the inputs and methods for strategic requirement forecasting.This role bridges executive leadership, sales, and engineering to map customer requirements to datacenter capacity, requiring deep knowledge of GPU infrastructure, networking, and supply chain logistics.

Responsibilities

Develop, iterate, and maintain end to end long-range demand planning models at the customer, initiative, SKU, and geo level. This role bridges executive leadership, sales, and engineering to map customer requirements to datacenter capacity, requiring deep knowledge of GPU infrastructure, networking, and supply chain logistics.

Build demand plans based on strategic goals, business trends, and inputs from stakeholders. Interact with engineering customer management, product management, networking, datacenter,and finance to understand demand requirements.

Socialize demand plans with senior leaders in capacity planning and operations, supply chain, engineering, customer management, and finance to achieve alignment.

Identify demand forecast risks and develop prioritized, effective, flexible, and durable mitigation strategies.

Facilitate healthy balance between long range planning and short-term execution. Understand end to end supply chain flow to help ensure customer demand is met.

Collaborate with product management to understand product lifecycle, transition, and how that impacts forecasting.

Provide direct inputs and analysis of demand data to management, finance, and operational teams in creating and maintaining the corporate S&OP process.

Develop routine and ad-hoc demand analyses and reports for senior management.

Maintain demand planning review processes to improve forecast accuracy.

Demand planning is both science and art.It is critical to understand how to translate business strategy into forecasting models,both quantitatively and qualitatively.

Work with business intelligence teams to translate planning processes into system models to determine and plan resource needs that meets capacity and performance needs.

Drive process improvement in demand planning to ensure efficient, scalable deployment.

Lead strategic AI/ML datacenter capacity planning, managing multi-billion dollars, large-scale AI/GPU infrastructure deals.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering or related fields
• Requires 7+ years in large-scale AI/ML datacenter capacity planning and project management.
• Extensive experience in developing demand plans and forecasts for new and existing products
• Understand impact of revenue goals, customer usage, overhead and buffer, data center space and power availability on capacity management.
• Experienced with forecasting and demand planning for server storage and networking
• Advanced in Excel modeling and building complex forecasting models with multiple inputs to drive recommendations and decisions
• Experienced with infrastructure hardware, memory, CPU, JBoDs, servers, etc. Ability to read and interpret product BOM and documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous cloud experience and/orGPU infrastructure for air/liquid-cooled datacenters and network architecture.
• Thrive in ambiguity and ability to make high judgement decisions from ambiguous context.
• Ability to translate large amounts of data into useful information and draw conclusions.
• Maintain key operational metrics that measure demand planning performance driving continuous improvement.
• 7+ years’ experience with Microsoft office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook, Access).
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $102,300 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC4

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