Act as a single point of contact for S4 HANA Release & Cutover Planning & Execution.
Experience of Scaled Agile Scrum S4 HANA Functional and Technical (ABAP & BTP) delivery with Developers and Teams distributed across multiple geographies.
Experience in planning every task and activity of the Dry Runs, Release and Cutover in detail for large projects/ programme with large number of interdependent activities.
Experienced stakeholder manager, negotiator and influencer.
Work closely with the other IT Project Managers, Business Process owners, and interdependent system owners to execute the pre-cutover, cutover and post cutover activity (content, dependencies, timing).
Provide the approach, plan and checklists to drive successful new system implementation into a production environment with no regression impact.
Provide guidelines and support for cutover planning across business and technical teams.
Key judge of business and technical readiness for a successful go live.
Ability to Knowledge transfer all service transition tasks.
Manage the delivery execution of an agreed scope of work.
Develop and secure approval for an agreed scope to be delivered to a baseline schedule and with assigned resources.
Manages the cutover for each project, maintain the project plan and communicate to all stakeholders.
Manage human and financial resources.
Report status as periodically and ad hoc as agreed and defined in the governance model.
Monitor progress and acts to proactively resolve emerging concerns.
Manage logging interdependencies, resolution of issues and mitigation of risks. Escalate as risk and issues appropriate.
Provide leadership, monitor performance of delivery execution and delivery teams.
Plan and participate in the Steering Committee meetings as required especially Go/ No Go Gate reviews/ decision meetings. Securing exec sponsor decision to Go Live.
Work in collaboration with customer stakeholders to identify, develop and co-ordinate the appropriate strategic and operational response to issues and change management activities.
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