Senior Manager, Life Sciences Adoption Strategy & Delivery

Oracle Corporation; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation is seeking a Senior Manager, Life Sciences Adoption Strategy & Delivery to drive customer delivery, business growth, and practice development for Life Sciences customers.

The role blends hands-on delivery leadership with strategic practice development, building scalable offerings, playbooks, and service models to support growth and value realization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Life Sciences, clinical research, pharma, biotech, regulated research or related fields.
• 5+ years in adoption strategy, change management, transformation delivery, or stakeholder enablement.
• Experience leading complex, customer-facing delivery in enterprise/regulatory settings.
• Experience designing adoption strategies, readiness plans, and sustainment models.

Responsibilities

• Lead adoption planning and execution for customer engagements.
• Develop repeatable methods, playbooks, and offerings from lessons learned.
• Partner with customers and Oracle teams to realize measurable business value.

Skills

Adoption strategy

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Executive presence

Cross-functional collaboration

Delivery leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Life Sciences domain knowledge

Strategic planning

Job description

Oracle Life Sciences Adoption Services is seeking a senior adoption leader to drive customer delivery, business growth, and practice development across the Life Sciences Adoption practice.

This hybrid role is primarily customer-facing, with responsibility for leading adoption strategy, stakeholder engagement, change enablement, and value realization for Life Sciences customers. The role also contributes to building scalable offerings, delivery frameworks, reusable assets, and service models that strengthen the practice and support future growth.

The Senior Manager, Life Sciences Adoption Strategy & Delivery is a senior individual contributor who partners with customers, Oracle teams, and practice leadership to help Life Sciences organizations successfully adopt Oracle solutions and realize measurable business value.

The role combines hands-on delivery leadership with strategic practice development. The successful candidate will lead adoption planning and execution for customer engagements while translating lessons learned into repeatable methods, playbooks, and offerings.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Life Sciences, clinical research, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, regulated research, enterprise technology, consulting, implementation, customer success, or professional services.
• 5+ years of experience in adoption strategy, organizational change management, transformation delivery, stakeholder engagement, business readiness, or customer enablement.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, customer-facing delivery efforts in enterprise or regulated environments.
• Experience developing adoption strategies, change plans, readiness plans, communication strategies, stakeholder-engagement approaches, and sustainment models.
• Experience working with executive sponsors, senior business leaders, operational teams, and cross-functional delivery organizations.
• Strong understanding of Life Sciences operating environments, such as clinical research, regulatory, safety, pharmacovigilance, data, SaaS, cloud, AI, or enterprise Life Sciences technology programs.
• Ability to identify adoption risks, process impacts, readiness gaps, and delivery dependencies, then develop practical mitigation strategies.
• Experience translating customer needs and delivery insights into reusable frameworks, service offerings, delivery assets, or scalable support models.
• Ability to operate independently as a senior individual contributor with executive presence, sound judgment, and minimal oversight.
• Strong communication, facilitation, problem-solving, stakeholder-management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience influencing matrixed teams across sales, delivery, consulting, product, customer success, and practice leadership.
• Ability to balance immediate customer commitments with longer-term practice-development priorities.

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting consulting, professional services, implementation, customer success, or transformation programs.
• Deep expertise in customer value realization, adoption risk, stakeholder readiness, and business-outcome alignment.
• Experience contributing to practice offerings, proofs of concept, delivery playbooks, or repeatable service models.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment with evolving customer needs and priorities.

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