SAP S/4HANA Cutover Manager

Location: Remote

• Cutover Strategy & Governance
  • Develop and maintain the overall SAP S/4HANA cutover strategy, methodology, governance model, and execution framework.
  • Establish deployment readiness criteria, go/no-go decision processes, and approval mechanisms.
  • Define cutover governance, command center structures, escalation paths, and communication protocols.
• Integrated Cutover Planning
  • Develop and maintain a fully integrated cutover plan across all program workstreams.
  • Manage dependencies, critical path activities, milestones, and contingency plans.
  • Establish and maintain detailed deployment runbooks, checklists, and execution procedures.
• Business Readiness & Site Deployment
  • Partner with manufacturing plants, distribution centers, laboratories, and corporate functions to ensure deployment readiness.
  • Coordinate with Business leadership blackout periods, inventory activities, physical inventory counts, order management transitions, and production planning considerations to support system deployment.
  • Ensure local deployment teams understand responsibilities and execute assigned activities successfully.
• Data Migration & Mock Cutovers
  • Coordinate with the Data Team all data migration activities supporting deployment and cutover execution.
  • Lead mock cutovers, deployment rehearsals, simulation exercises, and lessons-learned reviews.
  • Drive continuous improvement by incorporating lessons learned into the go-live deployment plans.
• Technical Deployment Management
  • Coordinate with IT Teams the infrastructure, network, security, integration, middleware, device, and application deployment activities.
  • Ensure technical environments are prepared and validated before go-live.
  • Partner with support vendors, implementation partners, and managed service providers to ensure deployment success.
• Hypercare & Stabilization
  • Lead command center operations during cutover execution, go-live, and hyper care periods.
  • Coordinate issue triage and resolution activities across business, SAP, infrastructure, integration, data, and application support teams.
  • Ensure successful transition from project delivery teams to Application Management Services (AMS) and operational support teams.
  • Monitor stabilization metrics and drive closure of deployment-related issues.
• Performance & Reporting
  • Define and monitor key performance indicators related to deployment readiness and execution.
  • Provide regular reporting to executive leadership and program governance teams.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives for subsequent deployment waves.

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of SAP delivery and enterprise transformation experience. Minimum 2 SAP S/4HANA go-lives in a deployment leadership, or cutover management role.
• Experience coordinating enterprise-wide business transformation deployments involving ERP, CRM, digital commerce, manufacturing operations, and customer-facing systems.
• Experience supporting manufacturing plant deployments, warehouse deployments, commercial operations, and shared services organizations.
• Experience managing deployment activities across multiple global locations simultaneously.
• Strong leadership, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Exceptional planning, organizational, and problem-solving capabilities.

• SAP S/4HANA implementation experience within manufacturing or process industries.
• Experience deploying SAP within multi-site global manufacturing environments.
• Experience leading command center and hyper care operations following ERP go-live events.
• Knowledge of release management, CAB governance, and enterprise change control processes.
• Familiarity with SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Solution Manager, ITSM, or similar deployment and support management tools.
• Experience in chemical or manufacturing industries with regulated environments, supply chain, or shop floor adoption challenges.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

• Potential 20% travel time required.
• Due to the team structure, virtual meeting formats, time zone differences, and appropriate meeting times, extended work hours may be required