| Job Title: | SAP S/4HANA Cutover Manager |
| Employment Type: | Contracted |
| Req ID: | 11021908 |
Locations Required: Belgium, Canada, France, Mexico, or United States
Time Zone Preference: 6am - 12pm EST
Contract Duration: 12 months (possibility for direct hire)
About Us
Original Composites and Fiberglass is a global leader in glass reinforcement solutions for the composites industry. Recently separated from Owens Corning, the business now operates independently under the Praana ownership model, continuing a strong legacy of innovation, manufacturing excellence, and customer partnership.
With more than 4,000 employees worldwide, we are committed to redefining what's possible through a performance-driven culture centered on safety, quality, sustainability, inclusiveness, and employee development. Guided by our values of passion, ownership, and team spirit, we work together to deliver innovative solutions and exceptional service across the globe.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced and highly organized SAP Cutover Manager to lead the planning, coordination, execution, and governance of all activities required to transition from legacy business systems to SAP S/4HANA and supporting enterprise applications. This role is responsible for ensuring successful deployment readiness, business continuity, technical execution, and stabilization throughout all phases of cutover, go-live, hyper care and ongoing operations. The role will coordinate deployments across SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Suite applications, enterprise integrations, data platforms, infrastructure services, and supporting business applications.
The SAP Cutover Manager will act as the central coordinator across IT, functions, infrastructure, data migration, security, integrations, non-ERP applications, and implementation partners. The role requires exceptional leadership, communication, and execution skills to ensure all cutover activities are coordinated, risks are mitigated, dependencies are managed, and business operations continue with no disruption during go-live events.
Original Composites & Fiberglass is a business unit of the Praana Group. Original Composites & Fiberglass was recently acquired by the Praana Group. The path ahead will be dynamic, full of change, and expected to be fast paced. The business operates from twenty (20+) locations across the globe. The information technology environment supporting our new company is being built from the ground up in terms of IT infrastructure and applications with the opportunity to leverage new technologies and new ways of thinking as we look to end a transition services agreement associated with the acquisition as soon as possible. Our Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) landscape is comprised of multiple instances across the globe. We seek to consolidate and simplify our ERP landscape to drive efficiency and effectiveness in our operations for decades ahead.
Key Responsibilities
Time Zone Preference: 6am - 12pm EST
Contract Duration: 12 months (possibility for direct hire)
About Us
Original Composites and Fiberglass is a global leader in glass reinforcement solutions for the composites industry. Recently separated from Owens Corning, the business now operates independently under the Praana ownership model, continuing a strong legacy of innovation, manufacturing excellence, and customer partnership.
With more than 4,000 employees worldwide, we are committed to redefining what's possible through a performance-driven culture centered on safety, quality, sustainability, inclusiveness, and employee development. Guided by our values of passion, ownership, and team spirit, we work together to deliver innovative solutions and exceptional service across the globe.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced and highly organized SAP Cutover Manager to lead the planning, coordination, execution, and governance of all activities required to transition from legacy business systems to SAP S/4HANA and supporting enterprise applications. This role is responsible for ensuring successful deployment readiness, business continuity, technical execution, and stabilization throughout all phases of cutover, go-live, hyper care and ongoing operations. The role will coordinate deployments across SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Suite applications, enterprise integrations, data platforms, infrastructure services, and supporting business applications.
The SAP Cutover Manager will act as the central coordinator across IT, functions, infrastructure, data migration, security, integrations, non-ERP applications, and implementation partners. The role requires exceptional leadership, communication, and execution skills to ensure all cutover activities are coordinated, risks are mitigated, dependencies are managed, and business operations continue with no disruption during go-live events.
Original Composites & Fiberglass is a business unit of the Praana Group. Original Composites & Fiberglass was recently acquired by the Praana Group. The path ahead will be dynamic, full of change, and expected to be fast paced. The business operates from twenty (20+) locations across the globe. The information technology environment supporting our new company is being built from the ground up in terms of IT infrastructure and applications with the opportunity to leverage new technologies and new ways of thinking as we look to end a transition services agreement associated with the acquisition as soon as possible. Our Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) landscape is comprised of multiple instances across the globe. We seek to consolidate and simplify our ERP landscape to drive efficiency and effectiveness in our operations for decades ahead.
Key Responsibilities
- Cutover Strategy & Governance
- 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.
- Integrated Cutover Planning
- 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.
- Business Readiness & Site Deployment
- 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.
- Data Migration & Mock Cutovers
- 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.
- Technical Deployment Management
- 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.
- Hypercare & Stabilization
- 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.
- Performance & Reporting
- 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.
- 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.
- Potential 20% travel time required.
- Due to the team structure, virtual meeting formats, time zone differences, and appropriate meeting times, extended work hours may be required