Product Program Manager, Workforce Platforms - Oracle HCM

The role will serve as a key liaison between Technology teams, HR business partners, and program leadership, helping translate business requirements into actionable product and delivery plans. The individual will support key workforce platform initiatives, manage timelines, integrations, stakeholder alignment, and execution across cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate brings both a product mindset (what should be built and why) and program rigor (how it gets delivered, by when, and by whom).

Your Day to Day

1. HR Business Partner Liaison & Stakeholder Management * Act as the primary interface between Workforce Technology and HR Business Partners across business units and geographies * Translate HR operational requirements into structured product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria * Facilitate working sessions and discovery workshops to elicit, clarify, and validate stakeholder needs * Communicate platform changes, release timelines, and integration impacts to HR audiences in accessible, non-technical language * Manage stakeholder expectations and proactively surface risks or trade-offs that affect HR operations

2. Program & Timeline Management Support * Partner closely with the Workforce Technology Program Manager to maintain integrated project plans, delivery milestones, and RAID logs * Track progress across concurrent HCM workstreams and surface timeline risks, blockers, and dependencies in a timely manner * Prepare and distribute status updates, steering committee materials, and executive-level reporting * Facilitate sprint ceremonies, backlog refinement, and cross-team dependency meetings * Coordinate across Accenture delivery partners and India-based engineering teams to ensure alignment and accountability

3. Product Management - Oracle HCM & Workforce Platforms * Own product backlog hygiene and prioritization for assigned Oracle HCM modules in partnership with technical leads * Define and document functional requirements for platform enhancements, configuration changes, and new capability rollouts while working closely with HCM BA. * Maintain product roadmap artifacts for the Workforce Platforms domain; ensure alignment with IHG enterprise architecture direction

• 4-7 years of experience in a product management, program management, or business analyst role within an enterprise technology environment
• Demonstrated experience with Oracle HCM Cloud (Core HR, Payroll, Talent, or Workforce Management modules)
• Familiarity with HCM integration patterns, middleware platforms (e.g., Oracle Integration Cloud / OIC), and data mapping concepts
• Experience serving as a liaison between HR business stakeholders and technology delivery teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences
• Proficiency with project tracking tools such as Jira, Microsoft Project, or equivalent
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams in an Agile or hybrid delivery environment

Preferred

• Hands-on experience with Oracle HCM integrations to workforce management systems (UKG Pro WFM preferred)
• Familiarity with Oracle Redwood UI migration , Transaction Design Studio, or Fast Formula configuration

Travel - 10%

Location - Atlanta, GA: Our hybrid work structure is an expectation of three (3) days a week in office. This expectation may be adjusted to evolve with the changing needs of the business.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we work together to deliver True Hospitality for Good on a global scale. With corporate offices and over 6,000 hotel destinations worldwide, a career at IHG is the perfect way to broaden your horizons. You’ll experience our unique culture and brilliant colleagues who will support and inspire you. With a host of corporate opportunities to choose from, wherever you are on your career journey, and whatever you want to achieve there’s Room for You at IHG.

Over recent years, we’ve transformed our company. We have bold ambitions to drive performance and maintain our relentless focus on growth in order to be the hotel company of choice that guests & owners love.

We are a hospitality business at our core and value connections and being together helps us foster a unique sense of belonging that also supports productivity. That’s why here at IHG, we give our colleagues flexibility and balance - working in a hybrid way, blending office and remote working collectively. We recognise that every role is different, that’s why leaders work with teams to determine how and when they collaborate.

We provide a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life. These include impressive room discounts across our many properties, recharge days and volunteering days throughout the year. Through our myWellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting wellbeing in your health, lifestyle, and workplace. We offer a unique and inclusive culture, where there is always Room for You to belong, grow and make a difference.

Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams where we celebrate difference and encourage colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other category protected by applicable laws. We promote a culture of trust, support, and acceptance. Always welcoming different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.