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SAP Business Cutover Manager (Procurement experience)
Start: November 2024
Duration: April 2025
Location: ideally Bay Area, alternatively close to it
Onsite: 50%
Remote: 50%
Role:
Experienced Business Cutover Lead who has planned and executed SAP S4 cutover plans for Procurement (Direct & Indirect). The Cutover lead will need to guide the team and the business SMEs to ensure we have a robust plan.
This role will mainly focus on the business activities
Experience in Procurement cutover planning is required
Tasks:
• Facilitation and leadership for all integration/x-stream topics within the deploying location
• Supporting the definition of key local scenarios and variants used in Data Migration
• The leadership of local cutover activities (planning, dry runs and reporting associated with cutover)
• Ensuring all local cutover activities are planned, from the detailed cutover run-books to the wider communications (internal and external)
• Supporting functional teams as they define the local requirements, plans and execution
• Coordinating the local dependencies between business, IT, data (inc. data remediation)
• Coordinating with Core dependencies (E.g., Data Migration, Aspire Template Cutover, Global systems)
• Ensuring cutovers are prepared and rehearsed as far as possible (E.g., technical cutovers for each test and pre-prod environment)
• Running readiness and Go/No-Go assessments in conjunction with the Deployment Lead
• Ensuring the Ramp-Up plan is in place and supporting ramp-up reporting/status
• Ensure any “hybrid scenarios” and workarounds are in place/tested and that resolution targets set.
• Maintains post go-live issue log
