Deployment Lead – Global ERP Transformation, Finance & Records

Role Overview

• Works with the Delivery Lead, PMO, and cross workstream leads to define end-to-end deployment strategy, schedule, and readiness criteria across releases.
• Defines and maintains deployment of work plans, cutover activities, milestones, and required personnel.
• Manages cross release and cross unit dependencies, deployment risks, and decision points.
• Coordinates deployment activities across business functions and ensures deployment planning aligns with enterprise calendars, regulatory constraints, and business readiness milestones.
• Provides deployment impact input into release of sequencing and scope of decisions.
• Leads objective deployment readiness assessments across: Application and configuration readiness, Data and integration readiness, Security, controls, and compliance readiness, Training and organizational adoption readiness
• Ensures executive sponsor awareness and commitment prior to go live.
• Partners with Change Management and Training leads to validate readiness assumptions and mitigate adoption risk.
• Works closely with the Test Lead to monitor system, integration, and user acceptance test outcomes.
• Validates adherence to quality management plans, release governance standards, and audit expectations.
• Defines and enforces go/no-go criteria based on pre-defined checklists and metrics; leads business readiness checkpoints and prepares for go/no-go decisions.
• Supports cutover planning, including business shutdown windows, freeze periods, and sequencing business activities.
• Coordinates post go live (hypercare) support activities across business, IT, and vendors, including triage, defect prioritization, and stabilization support.
• Defines stabilization entry/exit criteria and transition to steady-state support.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Project Management, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in deployment management, release management, or large‑scale enterprise system implementations.
• Demonstrated experience using structured ERP deployment methodologies
• Proven track record coordinating cross functional, multi-workstream teams.
• Strong planning, risk management, and dependency management skills.
• Excellent communication, planning, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to communicate deployment readiness and risk clearly to executive audiences.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP (strongly preferred)
• Experience supporting finance or regulated environments (controls, audit, compliance).
• Familiarity with organizational change management frameworks
• Experience with multi-‑release or phased ERP deployments rather than single big-bang go-‑lives.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• ERP
• Oracle

Benefits

• Must be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and currently temple worthy.
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