Lead Principal Sustainability Program Manager, Water Lead

Oracle is committed to achieving its sustainability goals and ensuring accurate, compliant reporting. Oracle’s Global Sustainability Office is seeking a versatile and strategic Principal Program Manager to drive sustainability initiatives and other duties as assigned. The ideal candidate will have experience in data center water conservation and stewardship with the ability to set holistic strategies while executing tactical priorities. This role will be critical in aligning cross-functional teams, improving data governance, and ensuring high-quality sustainability reporting.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Own and drive corporate strategy, reporting, and metrics for water risk, conservation, and stewardship.

• Partner with diverse teams to develop and refine processes for measuring, reporting, and improving performance .

• Drive external partnerships and project management for strategic water stewardship and replenishment work.

• Guide readiness for evolving sustainability reporting requirements, ensuring data integrity, auditability, and efficient response to both voluntary and regulatory disclosure frameworks.

• Identify and analyze risks and opportunities in water management, surfacing actionable insights to inform business strategy.

• Analyze sustainability-related data to identify inefficiencies, surface insights, and define relevant targets.

• Support cross-company engagement and training programs to build awareness and adoption of sustainability best practices.

• Interface as needed with customers and external stakeholders on key environmental topics, ensuring Oracle’s sustainability programs meet the expectations of customers, communities, and regulators.

Basic Qualifications

• Extensive program and project management in sustainability, compliance, or ESG-related roles.

• Demonstrated expertise in corporate water stewardship and driving water efficiency and replenishment projects .

• Familiarity with water risk assessments, with the ability to translate global strategy into local priorities.

• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills at all levels, including executive leadership.

• Comfort in ambiguity and flexing into unfamiliar domains to frame problems and drive execution.

• Proven ability to develop and execute policy, targets, and reporting for water and other environmental metrics.

• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, leveraging data-driven prioritization and decision-making.

• Experience aligning sustainability initiatives with business strategy and customer needs.

Preferred Skills

• Background in data center sustainability and operations is a plus.

• Experience using relevant enterprise sustainability software tools (e.g., EPM, Watershed, Aqueduct, Waterplan, Workiva, SAP Sustainability Control Tower, etc.).

• Ability to lead organizational change and streamline complex processes in a dynamic business environment.

• Understanding of major environmental data and reporting standards (e.g., ESRS/CSRD, CDP, GRI, GHGP, TCFD).

• Familiarity with Oracle Fusion cloud applications, specifically Enterprise Performance Manager (EPM), Oracle Fusion ERP and SCM Applications.

• Experience developing or advancing corporate biodiversity strategy, including assessment of impacts, goal setting, and alignment with emerging biodiversity frameworks.

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: $116,600 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. 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.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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