Associate Director, ERP Procure to Pay IT Product Lead (Oracle)

Role Summary

Associate Director, ERP Procure to Pay IT Product Lead (Oracle) sought to drive the design, implementation, optimization, and ongoing support of Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement as part of an ERP modernization program. This role acts as the strategic connector between Procurement, Finance, Supply Chain, and SI partners—translating complex business requirements into scalable Oracle Cloud solutions that enable global purchasing, sourcing, supplier management and invoicing operations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the functional product lead for all Oracle Cloud P2P modules: Procurement, Purchasing, Sourcing/eRFX, Supplier Portal, Supplier Qualification Management, and Accounts Payable.
• Translate Procurement, AP, supplier, and sourcing requirements into scalable Oracle Fusion Cloud functional designs aligned with business needs and enterprise standards.
• Review and challenge SI partner functional designs to ensure alignment with Oracle best practices, maintainability, and future scalability.
• Oversee functional configurations, approval workflows, sourcing templates, procurement rules, and AP invoice automation.
• Work with technical leads to support solution design of integrations and extensions involving OIC, file-based integrations, supplier onboarding, purchasing, contract management, bank validations, AP invoice ingestion, receipt/invoice matching, tax providers, and treasury/bank interactions.
• Partner with R2R, O2C, WMS, and Planning IT Product Leads to ensure upstream/downstream functional alignment and cross-process dependency management.
• Participate in Integration, SIT, UAT, Regression testing, and quarterly patch assessments for all P2P-related functionalities and issue resolutions.
• Provide oversight for procurement-related boundary systems such as Icertis (contract management), ORO (procurement orchestration), Sievo (spend analytics), and Trustpair (Bank Validations); ensure process and data alignment.
• Ensure procurement processes and related data structures meet SOX, GxP, internal control, audit, and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with SI partners, Oracle Support and Oracle Development to resolve system defects, evaluate enhancement requests, and interpret product roadmap impacts.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, or Information Systems.
• Required: 15+ years of hands-on experience in Oracle ERP Procurement, Finance, and Supply Chain applications, including 10+ years with Oracle Fusion Cloud P2P process areas.
• Required: Strong track record leading Oracle P2P implementations, global rollouts, or large-scale procurement transformation programs.
• Required: Experience with procurement boundary systems such as Icertis, ORO, Sievo.
• Required: Experience partnering with SI firms and managing complex design decisions.
• Preferred: Deep functional expertise in Oracle Fusion Cloud P2P modules including Procurement, Purchasing, Sourcing/eRFx, AP, Supplier Qualification Management, and Supplier Portal.
• Preferred: Strong understanding of procurement processes: sourcing, contract lifecycle flows, supplier onboarding, requisition-to-payment, and invoice management.
• Preferred: Experience with procurement boundary systems including contract management (Icertis), spend analytics (Sievo) and procurement orchestration (ORO).

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, or Information Systems.

Skills

• Oracle Fusion Cloud P2P module expertise: Procurement, Purchasing, Sourcing/eRFx, AP, Supplier Qualification Management, Supplier Portal.
• Strong problem-solving and requirements-to-design translation for ERP procure-to-pay processes.
• Experience with system integrations and orchestration tools (e.g., Oracle Integration Cloud, OIC).
• Ability to evaluate partner designs, enforce best practices, and drive scalable solutions.