About the Role
We are seeking an experienced SAP Cutover Consultant to lead cutover planning and execution for a large-scale SAP transformation within a global manufacturing environment. The ideal candidate has successfully delivered multiple end-to-end SAP cutovers, preferably within the semiconductor, electronics, or high-tech manufacturing industry.
This role requires hands-on ownership of cutover plans, mock rehearsals, production deployment, and post-go-live stabilization, working closely with business, functional, technical, and implementation partner teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the integrated cutover plan, including detailed tasks, dependencies, owners, timelines, checkpoints, and contingency procedures.
- Lead mock cutovers and dress rehearsals, identify execution gaps, and refine the final production cutover runbook.
- Coordinate cutover activities across SAP manufacturing, procurement, inventory, order management, logistics, and finance workstreams.
- Work with SAP functional, Basis, security, integration, and data migration teams to sequence transports, data loads, access readiness, interface transitions, and batch jobs.
- Coordinate manufacturing readiness, including production orders, work-in-process, inventory balances, material master data, BOMs, routings, and open transactions.
- Manage dependencies between SAP and connected manufacturing execution systems, warehouse platforms, supplier/customer interfaces, and other enterprise applications.
- Define business freeze windows, reconciliation checkpoints, go/no-go criteria, rollback plans, and business validation requirements.
- Run cutover command-center meetings, track execution against the plan, and escalate risks or delays affecting go-live.
- Partner with plant and supply chain teams to minimize disruption to manufacturing, procurement, shipping, and financial operations.
- Support hypercare, issue triage, business sign-offs, and transition to production support.
Required Qualifications
- Strong SAP implementation and deployment experience, with hands-on responsibility for multiple successful production cutovers.
- Experience managing cutovers for SAP S/4HANA implementations, migrations, or large-scale rollouts.
- Ability to independently build and execute detailed cutover plans across business and technical workstreams.
- Understanding of dependencies across SAP PP, MM, SD, FI/CO, and warehouse/logistics processes.
- Experience coordinating data migration, reconciliation, interface readiness, technical deployment, and business validation.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, including production planning, inventory movements, work-in-process, and order fulfillment.
- Experience managing critical-path activities, go-live risks, and time-sensitive escalations across global teams.
- Strong stakeholder communication, documentation, and execution management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Manufacturing industry experience, particularly semiconductor, electronics, or high-tech manufacturing.
- Experience with SAP ECC-to-S/4HANA transitions and familiarity with RISE with SAP environments.
- Exposure to MES/shop-floor integrations, batch or lot traceability, subcontracting, and outsourced manufacturing.
- Experience delivering multi-site or global deployments with tightly controlled downtime windows.
Ideal Candidate
A hands-on cutover specialist who can explain their role in multiple SAP go-lives, the complexity of the manufacturing environments involved, and how they managed rehearsals, dependencies, production readiness, and go-live issues.
