SAP Business Cutover Project Manager

Senior Sap Business Cutover Project Manager

Lead the end-to-end business cutover process for an SAP S/4 global programme, ensuring smooth transition from legacy operations to new systems. This role focuses on business readiness, operational ramp down, and ramp up activities across supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, commercial and finance, minimizing disruption and safeguarding customer business activities.

Develop and own the business cutover strategy and execution roadmap, integrating technical and business activities. Work with the business teams to develop detailed ramp down/ramp up plans for critical business processes for all sites (e.g., production scheduling, inventory, order fulfilment, finance). Ensure compliance with governance, methodologies, and change control processes.

Coordinate readiness across the 5 key regions including all associated plants, warehouses, and distribution centers. Align cutover activities with seasonal demand cycles and logistics constraints.

Engage business leaders and operational teams to validate readiness and dependencies. Facilitate go/no-go readiness reviews with leadership and PMO.

Identify and mitigate risks related to downtime, data migration, and operational continuity. Define rollback scenarios and contingency plans.

Drive cutover execution during trial runs, dress rehearsal and cutover for go-live. Provide real-time dashboards and executive updates on readiness and progress.

Lead hypercare activities and ensure smooth handover to operations/support teams. Capture lessons learned for continuous improvement.

Define KPIs & success metrics such as operational continuity, downtime management, readiness score, data migration accuracy, hypercare resolution.