Senior Lead, Oracle Fusion HCM Solutions

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Lead, Oracle Fusion HCM Solutions to join our global team.

Team and Role Purpose

The Transformation Development team drives Save the Children's organisational change agenda by delivering high-impact, global transformation initiatives that strengthen our ability to achieve more for children. The team works across a broad and evolving portfolio — spanning systems implementation, process reengineering, target operating model design, data, and artificial intelligence — adapting its focus in response to organisational priorities and emerging needs.

Members of the team are assigned to a specific project and are expected to dedicate their full effort to delivering it. However, as the portfolio evolves — whether a project concludes, priorities shift, or an urgent need arises elsewhere — team members may be redeployed to a different initiative. This flexibility is core to how the team operates, ensuring Save the Children can direct the right capability to the right priorities at the right time.

Role purpose

The Senior Lead, Oracle Fusion HCM Solutions is the organisation's expert adviser on Save the Children's live Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management System, ensuring we make smart, well-informed solution choices as we continue to develop and mature the platform across a complex, global organisation. Combining deep Fusion HCM product expertise with hands-on HR and people experience, the role partners with the Product Owner to lead the delivery of the enhancement roadmap, drives continuous improvement of the live solution, and brings the people subject-matter expertise needed to ensure the solution genuinely works for the teams who use it.

The role holder will oversee the ongoing solution design, configuration, and integration of Oracle Fusion HCM with adjacent systems, providing the expertise and assurance that enables senior stakeholders to make informed, smart decisions as the live solution evolves. Drawing on deep Oracle Fusion product knowledge — including emerging capabilities and best practice — and their own HR and people background, they will help shape and drive delivery of a coherent roadmap of enhancements aligned to organisational people requirements, championing scalability, performance, and a reduction in complexity across the estate.

Beyond solution development, the Senior Lead will shape how the live platform delivers value — defining success metrics and benefits realisation, establishing a Centre of Excellence and proposing ongoing improvements to the shared support model, and working closely with the Product Owner to drive accelerated adoption and embed sustainable change. A central part of the role is to stand up the Centre of Excellence from the ground up, bringing together the people already working with the live solution — including the HR team and internal IT development team — to build a sustainable, in-house capability. Because HCM and the Oracle Fusion Financial Management System (FMS) share significant interdependencies, the role holder will partner closely with the FMS team to assess any changes proposed to HCM in order to accommodate the finance solution — validating that they are properly impact-assessed and do not introduce unnecessary inefficiencies on the HR and people side. This is a high-visibility role requiring senior-level engagement with stakeholders across the movement, working alongside internal IT teams, Oracle, and third party vendors to ensure a fit-for-purpose solution that continues to meet strategic needs. They will also support Members as they adopt and optimise the global solution — guiding them through local feasibility assessments, configuration, and roll-out.

• Job Title: Senior Lead, Oracle Fusion HCM Solutions
• Reports To: Director, Transformation Development
• Work Pattern: Hybrid/Remote with flexible working options available
• Location: Any approved Save the Children International office location. For a full list of locations that Save the Children International can hire in, please visit: SCI Careers
• Required Time Zone: Any
• Contract Length:Permanent
• Right to Work: The successful candidate must have the right to work in the country where the role is based, for the duration of employment.
• Language Requirements: English
• International Travel: up to 10%
• Remit: Global

Principal Accountabilities

• Partner with the Product Owner — who owns the roadmap on behalf of the business — to lead the delivery of Fusion HCM enhancements on the live solution, prioritising changes that deliver organisational value and ensuring configuration, integration, and business process designs are fit for purpose
• Work closely with the Product Owner to shape and continuously evolve the future roadmap of Fusion HCM enhancements, including interfaces to other key systems, advising on scalability, performance, and a reduction in complexity across the estate
• Partner with the FMS team on cross-system interdependencies — validating that any changes to HCM proposed to accommodate the finance solution are properly impact-assessed and do not create unnecessary inefficiencies on the HR and people side
• Bring deep Oracle Fusion product expertise together with hands-on HR and people experience — including emerging capabilities and best practice — translating this for colleagues and upskilling the team to build durable internal capability
• Review and advise on architecture, configuration, and integrations to drive efficiency and productivity through simplicity, supporting the technical integrity and long-term sustainability of the solution
• Establish a Centre of Excellence — bringing together the teams already working with the live solution, including HR and the internal IT development team — and own its longer-term roadmap, applying industry experience and best practice to its design and operation
• Define success metrics for the roadmap and ensure consistent realisation of benefits, maintaining focus on improving the people and HR user experience and increasing organisational impact
• Work closely with available change resource, to plan for accelerated adoption and successful, sustainable change across the movement
• Provide strategic guidance on architecture, governance, support, and administration, ensuring business and IT alignment including across Member operations
• Draw on Oracle product knowledge and relationships, working alongside internal IT teams and third party vendors to advise on a fit-for-purpose solution
• Support Members as they adopt and optimise the global solution — guiding them through local feasibility assessments, configuration, and roll-out — while building close relationships with HR, People and Member colleagues to enable adoption, buy-in, and shared capability

Experience and Skills

Essential

1. Expert, hands-on knowledge of the Oracle Fusion HCM product, including configuration and emerging Fusion capabilities, gained from implementing and running Oracle within an HR or people function
2. An HR or people background — having worked in an HR function — combined with significant experience implementing and developing Oracle Fusion HCM as part of people or HR transformation within complex, global organisations
3. Strong experience leading on solution design, integrations, and enhancement roadmaps for a live platform, including interfaces between a core HR/people platform and other key enterprise systems
4. Proven ability to define and drive realisation of benefits and success metrics, ensuring scalability, performance, and reduced complexity across the estate
5. Experience establishing and running a Centre of Excellence or in-house support capability for a live enterprise solution, working alongside internal teams and third party software vendors to assure quality and sustain the platform
6. Experience within global, matrix organisations, with a proven ability to work effectively across functions and teams — including managing cross-system interdependencies between adjacent platforms — and with people from different cultures
7. Highly developed interpersonal skills including influencing, negotiation, and coaching, with the ability to support senior stakeholders through change across a global organisation
8. Excellent communication skills (written and oral English), with the ability to communicate and present to all levels of the organisation, and a commitment to Save the Children values

Desirable

• Experience leading or supporting transformation across multiple business units or countries, including enabling local teams through feasibility, design, and implementation
• Non-profit sector knowledge/experience (especially international development)
• Second language – French, Spanish or Arabic

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrable Oracle Fusion expertise, evidenced by relevant Oracle Cloud certification(s) and/or substantial hands-on Fusion HCM implementation and development experience, ideally alongside an HR/people qualification or equivalent HR experience

Desirable

• Preferable: Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM certification(s); enterprise/solution architecture qualification (e.g. TOGAF)

Working at Save the Children International

Save the Children is the world's leading organisation for children, employing ~25,000 staff. We save children's lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Through our work in 116 countries, we put the most deprived and marginalised children first.

We know that great people make a great organisation, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

The work here is challenging but is also immensely rewarding. At Save the Children, you will be in good company, working with talented, like-minded individuals who are determined to ensure that all children survive, learn, and are protected. Your contribution will help ensure children's voices are heard at the highest levels, and that we achieve our global strategy, Ambition for Children 2030, and reach every last child.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Equal Opportunities

DEI is core to our vision, values and global strategy. Save the Children is committed to creating a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation, and one which will support us in our vision to ensure every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, disability, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, caring or parental responsibilities, age, or beliefs and religion. We are committed to diversifying our staff to better represent the communities we serve and actively welcome underrepresented groups to apply.

Reasonable adjustments will be made should any candidate invited to interview require this.

Application Information

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application. A full copy of the role profile can be found at SCI Careers. It is recommended that you save a copy of the role profile as it will no longer be available after the advert closes.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the job advert may be closed earlier than advertised subject to the volume of suitable applicants. Please submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Candidates who are successfully shortlisted should expect to hear from us within 2 weeks of the advert deadline.

Our Recruitment Process

1. Application review by our recruiting team based on your CV and cover letter
2. Two-stage competency-based interviews with the hiring team
3. Some recruitment may include an additional assessment or case study stage, or a third stage interview
4. If successful, you will receive a conditional offer of employment, followed by your contract subject to passing background checks

We need to keep children and adults safe so our selection process includes rigorous background checks and reflects our commitment to the protection of children and adults from abuse. All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our Code of Conduct and all policies and procedures relating to Anti-Harassment, Health and Safety, Safeguarding, and DEI and Equal Opportunities.

Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.