SAP Cutover Lead
Location: Canada, Remote
Experience: 10+ Years
Domain: Healthcare / Life Sciences
We're seeking an experienced SAP Cutover Lead to lead and coordinate end-to-end cutover activities for a large-scale SAP implementation, migration, or transformation program — covering cutover strategy, integrated planning, data migration coordination, go-live execution, command-center management, and hypercare transition. Strong Healthcare/Life Sciences experience is required, including familiarity with regulated environments, validation requirements, and data integrity standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the end-to-end SAP cutover strategy, planning, execution, and governance
- Develop the Integrated Cutover Runbook — phases, milestones, dependencies, go/no-go criteria
- Lead dress rehearsals, mock cutovers, production cutover, and stabilization activities
- Manage the cutover command center/war room during critical deployment periods
- Coordinate SAP technical/functional cutover activities (transports, interfaces, batch jobs, security, integrations)
- Coordinate closely with Data Migration teams on extraction, cleansing, loading, reconciliation, and validation
- Drive business readiness, downtime/blackout communication, and post-go-live business validation
- Ensure cutover activities align with Healthcare/Life Sciences quality, compliance, and regulatory requirements (GxP, FDA, GMP, CSV)
- Manage cutover-specific risks, issues, dependencies, and critical-path items
- Coordinate transition into hypercare/go-live support and steady-state handoff
Required Skills & Experience:
- 10+ years overall SAP/ERP transformation experience
- 7+ years as SAP Cutover Lead / Cutover Manager / Deployment Lead on large-scale programs
- 5+ years with SAP S/4HANA and/or ECC environments
- 3-5 years managing full lifecycle SAP go-lives in a Cutover Lead capacity
- Hands-on experience with cutover plans, runbooks, checklists, dependency maps, readiness dashboards
- Strong experience with go/no-go governance, command centers, hypercare, and stabilization
- Healthcare/Life Sciences industry experience required (Pharma, Biotech, Medical Devices, Diagnostics, Clinical/Lab, Life Sciences manufacturing)
- Experience with regulated systems, GxP, CSV, data integrity, and regulatory compliance strongly preferred
- Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills
SAP Functional Exposure: FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, EWM, QM, PM, Supply Chain, SAP Master Data, integrations
Tools & Methodologies (preferred): SAP Activate, Solution Manager/Cloud ALM, Jira/Confluence, ServiceNow, MS Project, Smartsheet, RAID management, Agile/Waterfall/Hybrid
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, Engineering, Business, or related field
- SAP certification a plus
- PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent PM certification advantageous
- S/4HANA transformation/migration and global/multi-site deployment experience strongly preferred
- FDA-regulated/GxP Life Sciences experience a strong advantage