SAP S/4HANA Cutover Manager

Original Composites & Fiberglass is seeking an SAP Cutover Manager to lead planning, coordination, execution, and governance for the transition from legacy systems to SAP S/4HANA and supporting enterprise applications. The role coordinates deployment readiness, go-live, hypercare, and stabilization across business and technology teams while supporting business continuity.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the overall SAP S/4HANA cutover strategy, methodology, governance model, and execution framework
• Establish deployment readiness criteria, go/no-go decision processes, and approval mechanisms
• Define cutover governance, command center structures, escalation paths, and communication protocols
• Develop and maintain a fully integrated cutover plan across all program workstreams
• Manage dependencies, critical path activities, milestones, and contingency plans
• Establish and maintain detailed deployment runbooks, checklists, and execution procedures
• Partner with manufacturing plants, distribution centers, laboratories, and corporate functions to ensure deployment readiness
• Coordinate with Business leadership blackout periods, inventory activities, physical inventory counts, order management transitions, and production planning considerations to support system deployment
• Ensure local deployment teams understand responsibilities and execute assigned activities successfully
• Coordinate with the Data Team all data migration activities supporting deployment and cutover execution
• Lead mock cutovers, deployment rehearsals, simulation exercises, and lessons-learned reviews
• Drive continuous improvement by incorporating lessons learned into the go-live deployment plans
• Coordinate with IT Teams the infrastructure, network, security, integration, middleware, device, and application deployment activities
• Ensure technical environments are prepared and validated before go-live
• Partner with support vendors, implementation partners, and managed service providers to ensure deployment success
• Lead command center operations during cutover execution, go-live, and hyper care periods
• Coordinate issue triage and resolution activities across business, SAP, infrastructure, integration, data, and application support teams
• Ensure successful transition from project delivery teams to Application Management Services (AMS) and operational support teams
• Monitor stabilization metrics and drive closure of deployment-related issues
• Define and monitor key performance indicators related to deployment readiness and execution
• Provide regular reporting to executive leadership and program governance teams
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives for subsequent deployment waves

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of SAP delivery and enterprise transformation experience
• Minimum 2 SAP S/4HANA go-lives in a deployment leadership, or cutover management role
• Experience coordinating enterprise-wide business transformation deployments involving ERP, CRM, digital commerce, manufacturing operations, and customer-facing systems
• Experience supporting manufacturing plant deployments, warehouse deployments, commercial operations, and shared services organizations
• Experience managing deployment activities across multiple global locations simultaneously
• Strong leadership, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
• Exceptional planning, organizational, and problem-solving capabilities
• SAP S/4HANA implementation experience within manufacturing or process industries
• Experience deploying SAP within multi-site global manufacturing environments
• Experience leading command center and hyper care operations following ERP go-live events
• Knowledge of release management, CAB governance, and enterprise change control processes
• Familiarity with SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Solution Manager, ITSM, or similar deployment and support management tools
• Experience in chemical or manufacturing industries with regulated environments, supply chain, or shop floor adoption challenges
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification