Contract: 12-month contract with possibility to extend
Location: Montreal, QC
Work Model: Hybrid – 3 days onsite per week, 2 days remote
Language: English required; French strongly preferred
Position Purpose
Lead regional SAP S/4HANA technical deployment and cutover activities, ensuring technical readiness, security, integrations, environments, defects, dependencies, vendors, and execution activities remain controlled throughout testing, Go-Live, and Hypercare.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead SAP S/4HANA deployment and cutover activities across SIT, UAT, Dress Rehearsals, Production Go-Live, and Hypercare.
- Own the regional cutover plan, runbook, task tracker, dependencies, risks, issues, and escalation paths.
- Coordinate readiness across SAP Security/GRC, BASIS/BTP, Integration, QA, Fiori/UI, PMO, and third-party teams.
- Lead cutover command activities, including status collection, issue triage, decision-making, and stakeholder communications.
- Ensure SAP security and access readiness, including roles, authorizations, emergency access, SoD considerations, and security evidence.
- Coordinate third-party technical readiness, including connectivity, environments, testing, defects, and cutover activities.
- Manage defect prioritization, escalation, and resolution while maintaining clear ownership and timelines.
- Validate interfaces, integrations, downstream dependencies, environments, and production readiness.
- Provide readiness evidence and recommendations for phase gates and Go/No-Go decisions.
- Lead cutover execution, including ramp-down, deployment, validation, ramp-up, and recovery activities.
- Support regional incident response during Hypercare and ensure clean transition to steady-state operations.
- Maintain leadership reporting covering readiness, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and outstanding actions.
Key Deliverables
- Regional SAP S/4HANA deployment and cutover plan
- Technical readiness checklist and evidence pack
- Cutover command/runbook and dependency tracker
- Security, access, and integration readiness tracking
- Defect, risk, issue, and escalation reporting
- Dress Rehearsal and Go-Live readiness reporting
- Hypercare transition and stabilization plan
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong experience leading SAP S/4HANA deployment, technical cutover, or enterprise ERP transformation programs.
- Strong knowledge of SAP BASIS/BTP, Security/GRC, Integration, and SAP technical environments.
- Hands-on experience with SIT, UAT, Dress Rehearsals, Go-Live, and Hypercare.
- Experience with cutover planning, command center operations, defect management, release/transport governance, and readiness reporting.
- Experience coordinating vendors, third parties, and distributed technical teams.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong understanding of risks, dependencies, escalation management, and Go/No-Go governance.
- Ability to work effectively in a complex, multi-team SAP transformation environment.
- English required; French strongly preferred.
- SAP S/4HANA transformation experience is required.
