SAP S/4HANA Readiness Lead

Location: Montreal, QC

Work Arrangement: Hybrid – 3 days onsite per week

Contract: 12 months initially, with potential extension through December 2027

Start Date: ASAP

Language: Bilingual – English & French

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Advisor – Operational & Closure Readiness to support a major SAP S/4HANA transformation and deployment program.

The organization is transitioning from SAP ECC6 to SAP S/4HANA as part of a large-scale enterprise transformation. This role will help ensure that business teams, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and site stakeholders are fully prepared for testing, training, cutover, go-live, and post-go-live hypercare.

This is primarily a business readiness, project coordination, and stakeholder management role, rather than a hands-on SAP development position.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate and track readiness activities for business SMEs and stakeholders.
• Maintain detailed activity plans, task lists, trackers, and status reports.
• Coordinate with SMEs and Product Group Readiness Leads to ensure deliverables are completed on time.
• Support mobilization and scheduling of SMEs for readiness activities.
• Coordinate testing, training, pre-cutover, post-cutover, go-live, and hypercare activities.
• Ensure sessions are properly planned, sequenced, and communicated.
• Coordinate meeting logistics, technology requirements, travel, and other operational needs when required.
• Work closely with local site representatives to incorporate site-specific requirements and constraints.
• Track risks, issues, dependencies, and outstanding actions.
• Escalate issues and delays to the appropriate project or readiness leads.
• Support effective communication between business teams, project teams, SMEs, and site stakeholders.
• Ensure readiness activities are completed according to required timelines and quality standards.
• Provide day-to-day operational coordination and support to the overall readiness team.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, Project Management, or a related field.
• Experience working in SAP environments, preferably SAP S/4HANA.
• Experience supporting SAP/ERP implementation, deployment, transformation, or migration projects.
• Strong project coordination or project management experience.
• Experience coordinating multiple SMEs, business stakeholders, or site-based teams.
• Experience with business readiness, operational readiness, deployment, cutover, testing, training, go-live, or hypercare activities.
• Experience working within a matrix organization.
• Strong planning, scheduling, tracking, and dependency-management skills.
• Experience in Commercial Services or Shared Services environments.
• Understanding of Deal-to-Contract and Order-to-Cash (O2C) business processes.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to identify, track, and escalate risks, issues, and dependencies effectively.
• Bilingual English and French communication skills required.
• Ability to work onsite in Montreal 3 days per week.

Preferred Experience

• Previous experience with SAP S/4HANA transformation programs.
• Experience transitioning from SAP ECC to S/4HANA.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise transformation or ERP deployment programs.
• Experience in mining, manufacturing, resources, or other complex operational environments.