Blue Skies Consulting ยท 1 month ago
SAP ERP Cutover Lead
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expBlue Skies Consulting is looking for an ERP Cutover Lead who will be responsible for planning and managing the transition from an old system to a new technology solution across various business functions. The role involves coordinating multiple departments, overseeing cutover plans, and ensuring go-live readiness while managing risks and data migration activities.
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Responsibilities
Coordinate the activities of multiple departments, work threads, and/or physical sites around each go-live preparation, ramp down, cutover, and ramp up activities in a methodical and consistent model. It will include integrating all IT, data, and business activities across all impacted work threads and end users to prepare the organization for final go-live
The Cutover Lead will oversee the creation and ongoing execution of the Cutover Preparation/Readiness Plan, Business Ramp-Down, System and Physical Blackout and Cutover, and Controlled Business Start Up and System Stabilization plans
Gather all requirements for end-to-end cutover activities, integration and creation of a central master plan, coordinating the execution of rehearsals and all preparation activities, and management of the cutover execution, reporting to project leadership and business sponsors
Analyze of the cutover activities, risk management, failure modes analysis, and contingency planning
Ensure that data migration, IT release, and business cutover activities are identified, sequences, and integrated
Ensure that business ramp down and ramp plans are created and aligned
Develop cutover governance framework
Develop solution stabilization, support, and business ramp up framework
Develop a detailed Integrated Cutover Plan, manage rehearsals, and execution
Coordinate and manage go-live readiness work by all impacted work threads, reporting to project leadership
Develop benchmarks, metrics and measures for go-live readiness
Coordinate the milestones, priorities, and risks concerning Cutover within all phases of the program lifecycle
Manage and report on the project schedule, including updating of the project plan
Qualification
Required
Understanding of end-to-end ERP functionality Plan/Source/Make/Quality/Sales Order Management/Inventory and Warehouse Management/Distribution/Finance
Understanding of supply chain operations and relevant supply chain KPIs
Experience in leadership roles as part of global complex enterprise software implementations operating in highly matrixed shared service environments
Expertise in managing workshops, facilitating groups, and leading stakeholders through planning exercises
Expertise in communicating technical subject matter in a variety of modes and formats, with skill at creating visualizations and other methods of translating complex information into easily digestible chunks in order to align various stakeholders from the shop floor to the C-Suite
Experience managing data conversions and/or experience managing IT cutover, code promotion, or software release and/or experience managing physical site, equipment, and/or product transition from legacy to new process
Minimum of five years demonstrated and successful project and systems implementation experience in leadership positions applying project management body of knowledge principles (initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, finalizing)
Strong analytical and organizational skills, with professional communication using a variety of mediums and methods to assure user comprehension
Preferred
Experience in developing and managing go-live readiness assessments, stage-gate reviews, and go/no-go decision process preferred
Executive polish and ability to report out to senior executives
Company
Blue Skies Consulting
Blue Skies Consulting provides business transformation and strategy and tactics for project solutions.
51-200 employees
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