SAP Cutover Lead

Title : SAP Cutover Lead

Location : Remote w / limited travel to Plano, TX

As a Cutover Manager, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and leading all cutover activities to ensure successful deployment. This includes managing the endtoend cutover process, ensuring alignment with business requirements, and collaborating with multiple teams to deliver seamless transitions.

Key Responsibilities :

Develop and drive comprehensive Cutover masterplan, detailing a list of deliverables with detailed timelines and activities that will be executed by Business, functional technology team members

Develop comprehensive cutover plan in collaboration with business stakeholders and coordinate business master data cleanup and business cutover incl. business lanes ramp up and ramp up plans

Coordinate master plan dependencies with subplans for static master data, technical application specific and transactional data cutover plans

Ensure needed resourcing for plan execution in collaboration with Program management

Steer and coordinate overall cutover execution gross workstreams and provide regular status updates to Program management

Facilitate rapid issue resolution and escalate promptly to ensure swift corrective actions

Coordinate cutover activities that span across multiple applications and teams. Identify risks, dependencies and downstream impacts.

Manage communications and interactions across technology, functional and business teams helping address key challenges and issues

Manage scope and schedule of the various cutover activities

Proactively manage risks associated with Cutover activities, and help plan appropriate mitigations to address any challenges

Prepare contingency backout plans for critical eventualities

Responsible for ensuring successful planning and execution of integrated release cutover activities and associated system outages

Maintain a collaborative approach with technology, functional and business teams, providing support in execution of cutover activities

Ensure adherence to client IT guidelines, proper documentation, and obtain necessary approvals from key stakeholders

Basic Key Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.

Minimum of 7 years of experience in SAP cutover management or related roles.

Advanced proficiency in Deployment Countdown Cutover Execution.

Proven experience in developing and managing comprehensive cutover plans.

Excellent problem solving skills with the ability to work independently and provide innovative solutions.

Strong collaboration and communication skills to engage with cross functional teams and stakeholders.

Experience in facilitating workshops and gathering requirements from stakeholders.

Proven ability to identify opportunities for innovation and process improvement in cutover execution

Familiarity with SAP implementation methodologies and tool