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Director, Technical Program Manager (Oracle ERP)

Category: Global Technology Services

Position Type: Regular Full-Time

External ID: 15267

Date Posted: May 2, 2025

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Overview

THE ROLE:

Herbalife has embarked on a multi-year comprehensive initiative to overhaul and enhance back-office applications by transitioning to Oracle Cloud. This includes migrating current on-premises Oracle E-Business Suite implemented for over 90 markets, as well as other custom Oracle applications to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This program represents a major business-led transformation to enable us to evolve towards best-in-class and more efficient business processes that will be supported by a major technology upgrade. The goal is to create a more efficient, scalable, and standardized system that supports the organization's growth and operational excellence, and which will also deliver significant cost-benefit to the organization over time. The role will be responsible for the Program Management for this strategic initiative for all technical components and critical to its overall success.

The Director of Program Management has overall responsibility for managing a team of Global Project Managers and Scrum Masters that support the successful implementation of all key programs and projects globally. This position will take a leadership role in the support of portfolio and project management process and toolset. This individual will work to increase the effectiveness of PMO’s processes and toolset by working across technology and business to identify and implement opportunities for improvements and implementing change to take advantage of these. This role will bring together the technology, people, and processes necessary to support the delivery of streamlined, technology enabled business services and champion the evolution of the PLMC and SDLC standards across the organization.

HOW YOU WOULD CONTRIBUTE:

+ Program Management for the technical components for a large scale global Oracle Cloud implementation program planned over next 3-4 years.

+ Develops team of PMO program managers/project managers/ scrum masters/analysts who are responsible for Strategic Programs across technology teams.• Champion and drive aid in the evolution of PMLC standards and communications within the organization, providing mentorship and training to teams and direct reports as needed.• Ensure critical issues are sophisticated and resolved quickly while implementing strategies and solutions to help reduce the likelihood of reoccurrence. • Conduct audits and ensure adherence to PMLC and SDLC standards including periodic reviews/ratings of other teams and facilitation of training and improvement opportunities as needed.• Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers by encouraging continuous engagement and improvement. This involves the ability to assign ambitious work, share vision and set inspiring goals with continuous feedback and steadfast improvement.• Support impactful learning and growth by embedding training and development into the workflow and encouraging cross-role, cross-functional and cross-team training to further improve skills, flexibility and utility of team members.• Handle vendor relationships for multiple initiatives as needed.• Provide input on resourcing and address critical bottlenecks.• Understand and operate within Lean Budgets and ensure adherence to Guardrails.• Support the ongoing maintenance of the project management methods and tools that are used as the standards within Herbalife.• Support of the portfolio review process. This includes capturing status reports from various project managers, providing an overview of project portfolio health and leading portfolio review meetings.• Assist with the implementation, management, and reinforcement of policies and practices that ensure repeatable successful SOX compliance within the Herbalife organization.• Work with technical teams to troubleshoot issues with Project Portfolio Management (PPM) and/or ALM software.• Ensures department alignment to the organizational priorities and strategy• Partners with other leaders in technology teams to understand process improvement needs and translate these into actions and/or projects.• Identifies areas where department Processes can be improved and influences business and technology leadership by defining the benefits, and handles the improvements• Works closely with other technology functions to cohesive operations and reduces frictions• Brings up and follows through on issues identified in unit teams• Builds an environment that improves collaboration, ensuring positive and productive working relationships are developed and maintained across the service ecosystem.• Engages in planning sessions• Establishes strong relationships with partners

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manages a team with 5-10 direct reports

Qualifications

SKILLS AND BACKGROUND REQUIRED TO BE SUCCESSFUL:

+ Experience managing large scale Oracle ERP projects, preferably on Oracle Cloud.

+ Strong ability to lead multiple teams and processes in parallel• Ability to identify system impact for small and large scale initiatives• Ability to develop and maintain project plans and budgets across multiple projects• Data driven with strong analytical and cross-group collaboration skills to bring the organization to consensus on decisions on both short and long-term project plans• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with a high comfort level speaking publicly to large groups and senior management• Excellent presentation skills• Ability to use a wide degree of creativity and latitude to think differently, challenge conventional wisdom, and drive new standard methodologies• Strong leadership skills with an ability to empower and provide clear direction to team members• Ability to travel domestically/international 5-10% of the time• Ability to interact effectively with individuals from different countries and cultures, with a sensitivity to cultural diversity• Proven track record in delivering programs in a sophisticated, international organization of relevant scale and complexity

Certificates / Training Preferred:

• SAFe Agile/ Scrum Certification

• PMP Certification or equivalent experience

Experience:

• 12+ years demonstrated experience in the Technology/IT Industry

• 7 years PMO experience, specifically of Project and/or Portfolio Management experience in a large-scale IT environment

• 7 years project management experience with large scale application and/or infrastructure implementation projects

• 5 years’ experience handling direct reports

Education

• Bachelor's in Information Technology or equivalent

Preferred

• MBA or other advanced degree

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At Herbalife, we value doing what’s right. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic. We value diversity, strive for inclusivity, and believe the differences among our teammates is a key contributor to Herbalife’s ongoing success.

Herbalife offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees in the U.S. (limited to the 50 States and the District of Columbia), which includes Group Health Programs, other Voluntary Benefit Programs, and Paid Time Off. Group Health Programs include Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), Basic Life/AD&D; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

Other Voluntary Benefit Programs include a 401(k) plan, Wellness Incentive Program, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), Supplemental Life/Critical Illness/Hospitalization/Accident Insurance, and Pet Insurance. Paid time off includes Company-observed U.S. Holidays, Floating Holidays, Vacation, Sick Time, a Volunteer Program, Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave, Bereavement Leave, Personal Leave and time off for voting.

If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please email your request to

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