Summary
Responsibilities include planning, coordination, and execution of cutover activities -- working closely with stakeholders to minimize disruptions.
Reports directly to Adopt Head APMA, Japan & China.
About the Role
Major accountabilities:
- Drives Cutover planning, including preparation, execution, and reporting from a business integration perspective
- Ensures country Business Go-live Contingency plans are ready
- Supports developing, managing, and communicating Cutover & Hypercare plans with concerned business parties
- Plans and tracks Go-live readiness to ensure Go/No-Go meeting passed for Cutover, Hypercare, and business readiness items
- Schedules and manages ongoing Go-live readiness review sessions
- Co-hosts Cutover and Hypercare daily calls (in focused periods) with IT counterpart, focusing on driving Business Readiness and Business Ramp-up
- Supports planning with IT Cutover Manager and ensures business dependencies defined and handled
- Drives Hypercare KPI reporting target definition (and alignment with business stakeholders) and executes and communicates reporting of KPIs
- Defines and communicates country business resource requirements during blackout, in Hypercare and transition to post-Hypercare business support model
- Ensures business resources available/contactable over Cutover and Hypercare period
- Acts as business escalation point for Cutover & Hypercare issues, supporting resolution
- Identifies & mitigates risks to minimize potential disruptions during cutover & hypercare
- Takes learnings from post-cutover reviews, leading to scaling / automation for future rollouts
Minimum Requirements:
Work Experience:
- SAP business process
- Industry/ Business Exposure.
- Collaborating across boundaries.
- Project Management.
Skills:
- Strong, global project management skills
- Good communication and negotiation skills
- Solid SAP business process understanding
- Able to zoom in & zoom out to articulate big picture messages while managing details
- Cross-functional expertise/knowledge and strong leadership
- Ability to drive results and meeting project deadlines
- Thrives in international and matrix-based organizations
- Experience managing people and large virtual teams
- Strategic and Hands on way of working (running meetings, tracking progress, managing issues & risks)
- ERP project implementation background (preferred)
Languages :
- Fluent English (additional languages preferred)
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