Description
Do you want to boost your career and collaborate with expert, talented colleagues to solve and deliver against our clients' most important challenges? We are growing and are looking for people to join our team. As a Senior SAP Business Cutover Project Manager, you will lead the end-to-end business cutover process for an SAP S/4 global programme, ensuring smooth transition from legacy operations to new systems.
This role focuses on business readiness, operational ramp down, and ramp up activities across supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, commercial and finance, minimizing disruption and safeguarding customer business activities.
Key responsibilities include:
Developing and owning the business cutover strategy and execution roadmap, integrating technical and business activities. Working with the business teams to develop detailed ramp down/ramp up plans for critical business processes for all sites (e.g., production scheduling, inventory, order fulfilment, finance). Ensuring compliance with governance, methodologies, and change control processes. Coordinating readiness across the 5 key regions including all associated plants, warehouses, and distribution centers. Aligning cutover activities with seasonal demand cycles and logistics constraints. Engaging business leaders and operational teams to validate readiness and dependencies. Facilitating go/no-go readiness reviews with leadership and PMO. Identifying and mitigating risks related to downtime, data migration, and operational continuity. Defining rollback scenarios and contingency plans. Driving cutover execution during trial runs, dress rehearsal and cutover for go-live. Providing real-time dashboards and executive updates on readiness and progress. Leading hypercare activities and ensuring smooth handover to operations/support teams. Capturing lessons learned for continuous improvement.
As a successful candidate, you will have:
10+ years in SAP program delivery with proven experience in business cutover management for consumer goods and logistics. Expertise in ramp down/ramp up planning for large-scale ERP transformations (ECC and S/4HANA). Strong understanding of supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, commercial and finance processes. Familiarity with SAP modules. Experience in global rollouts and multi-country deployments. SAP or PMP certification preferred. Excellent communication and ability to influence C-Level executives. Ability to lead teams to prepare large proposals and program plans, facilitate leverage differentiators (e.g. specific consulting frameworks, etc.). Outstanding communication skills (verbal and written) and presentation skills, with the ability to influence C-Level stakeholders within client organizations. Strategic thinker with strong business orientation. Ability to manage complex dependencies and drive decisions. Skilled in balancing technical and operational priorities. Willingness to work shifts for cutover activities Project-related mobility/willingness to travel.