The University of New Mexico

Position Summary

The University of New Mexico seeks an exceptional leader to direct its Oracle Cloud Transformation. This is more than an implementation, it is an opportunity to help shape the future of a premier flagship research university. This transformation is sponsored at the highest levels of university leadership and represents a critical strategic investment in how UNM serves its students, faculty, staff, and community. The Director will play a defining leadership role in one of the university's most important strategic initiatives.

The Oracle Fusion Program Director serves as the senior leader responsible for the successful delivery of UNM’s Oracle Cloud Transformation. Reporting directly to UNM’s Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration, the Director will lead the implementation of Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications across the UNM enterprise, including ERP/Finance, Human Capital Management, Enterprise Performance Management, and related Oracle modules. This role ensures alignment between institutional strategy and program execution across Finance, Human Resources, Information Technologies, and our campus community throughout UNM’s Oracle Cloud implementation, and facilitates governance, scope, and outcomes.

This position operates at the executive level, bridging the Steering Committee and the Executive team, and is accountable for ensuring the implementation advances UNM’s strategic priorities and embodies UNM’s One University goal. It represents a significant opportunity to modernize the university’s core administrative systems and enhance operational effectiveness across the UNM enterprise. To ensure successful system implementation, the Director will be responsible for guiding the organizational change, stakeholder engagement, communication, and adoption efforts necessary to achieve sustainable outcomes.

The Director must effectively navigate a highly matrixed environment, building consensus among executive leadership, stakeholders in the administration, academic affairs, and health sciences, and project teams while maintaining focus on enterprise outcomes.

The Director will serve as a member of the leadership team guiding the transformation in partnership with the Chief Information Officer, Chief Human Resources Officer, and University Controller, as well as the Director of Enterprise Applications. Working alongside the leaders who will ultimately operate, govern, resource, and continuously improve these systems, the Director will leverage and build upon existing practices and align program decisions with long-term operational needs and ensure a sustainable operating model for the future. Success requires influencing without direct authority, building consensus among stakeholders, and ensuring an effective transition from implementation to ongoing operations.

Key Responsibilities

The Director leads with a proactive, highly collaborative approach, building trusted partnerships across the university while maintaining accountability for enterprise outcomes.

• Translate executive vision into a cohesive enterprise systems modernization
• Ensure alignment with UNM 2040 priorities and institutional strategy, maintaining a One University approach program-wide
• Serve as primary liaison to the Executive Sponsor and Steering Committee, ensuring alignment on priorities and decision-making
• Build upon existing approaches at UNM to establish and enforce governance structures, decision rights, and escalation paths
• Build upon existing approaches at UNM to develop and execute a comprehensive enterprise transformation strategy encompassing organizational change management, communications, stakeholder engagement, training, and adoption
• Lead enterprise business process redesign aligned to best practices and foster alignment amongst stakeholders to support adoption
• Prepare and deliver executive-level communications, recommendations, and status updates to sponsors, governance bodies, and institutional stakeholders
• Own program scope integrity and prevent fragmentation across functional areas
• Identify and manage enterprise-level risks and interdependencies
• Resolve conflicts between units and drive enterprise solutions
• Provide executive oversight of system integrator and software vendor, in close coordination with UNM IT
• Responsible for program financial performance, including budget management, contract expenditures, forecasting, and reporting
• Define and monitor measures of program success, adoption, and business value realization to ensure the transformation delivers the intended outcomes
• Build upon existing approaches at UNM to solidify the foundations for long-term enterprise system governance, operational ownership, and continuous improvement following implementation

Flexible Engagement Opportunity: The University is recruiting for this leadership role through both its employment process and a parallel procurement process for independent contractors. Individuals seeking employment with the University should apply through this position announcement. Independent consultants or firms interested in providing these services under a professional services agreement should respond through the corresponding procurement solicitation. Interested parties should participate in the process that best aligns with their preferred engagement model. The University anticipates filling this leadership role through one of these two processes. For more information, visit https://elevate.unm.edu/oracle-fusion-program-director.html

See the Position Description for additional information.

Conditions of Employment

• Employees in this job title are subject to the terms and conditions of an employment contract. Employment contracts are typically subject to review and renewal on an annual basis.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree and at least 10 years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified.

Completed degree(s) from an accredited institution that are above the minimum education requirement may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated success delivering full lifecycle enterprise system implementations
• Experience managing complex, cross-functional teams and external partners
• Demonstrated success leading organizational change and stakeholder engagement initiatives within large-scale enterprise transformations
• Strong program management, financial oversight, and risk management skills
• Strong communication skills, and a proven ability to build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups with competing priorities
• Experience in higher education or similarly complex organizations
• Expertise leading Oracle implementations in higher education, healthcare, or other complex matrixed organizations
• Experience leading programs with multiple workstreams across Finance, HCM, and Planning/Budgeting, or comparable enterprise functions
• Experience working with 3rd party Implementation partners
• Strong understanding of Oracle Fusion Cloud applications such as ERP, HCM, and EPM
• Experience leading business process transformation in complex, decentralized organizations.

Pay Negotiable, depending on experience Benefits Eligible This is a benefits eligible position. The University of New Mexico provides a comprehensive package of benefits including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. In addition, UNM offers educational benefits through the tuition remission and dependent education programs. See the Benefits home page for a more information. ERB Statement As a condition of employment, eligible employees working greater than .25 FTE as determined by the New Mexico Education Retirement Act must make mandatory retirement contributions. For more information, review the Benefits Eligibility at a Glance grid. Application Instructions

Only applications submitted through the official UNMJobs site will be accepted. If you are viewing this job advertisement on a 3rd party site, please visit UNMJobs to submit an application.

Applicants should provide a detailed resume and cover letter and at least three professional references.

Positions posted with a Staff Type of Regular or Term are eligible for the Veteran Preference Program. See the Veteran Preference Program webpage for additional details.

The University of New Mexico is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

The University of New Mexico requires all regular staff positions successfully pass a pre-employment background check. This may include, but is not limited to, a criminal history background check, New Mexico Department of Health fingerprint screening, New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department fingerprint screening, verification of education credentials, and/or verification of prior employment. For more information about background checks, visit https://policy.unm.edu/university-policies/3000/3280.html. Refer to https://policy.unm.edu/university-policies/3000/3200.html for a definition of Regular Staff.