SAP Cutover Lead role

About Us

Do you want to boost your career and collaborate with expert, talented colleagues to solve and deliver against our clients' most important challenges? We are growing and are looking for people to join our team. You'll be part of an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment of 300.000 employees. Our dynamic organization allows you to work across functional business pillars, contributing your ideas, experiences, diverse thinking, and a strong mindset. Are you ready?

The Team

Our ERP practice helps some of the largest global firms and most recognizable brands deliver value and business transformation enabled by digital ERP solutions and services. Our ERP services covering strategy, implementation and innovation help clients delivering true value and achieve their transformation agenda.

The Role

• Lead the end-to-end cutover process, including planning, preparation, execution, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Develop detailed cutover strategy, plans, and checklists in collaboration with project managers, workstream leads, and client stakeholders.
• Coordinate activities across SAP functional, technical, infrastructure, and business teams to ensure alignment and readiness.
• Manage data migration dependencies, system downtime planning, and rollback scenarios.
• Conduct cutover readiness reviews and go/no-go assessments with leadership teams.
• Identify and mitigate risks and issues related to cutover activities.
• Prepare and present cutover status reports, dashboards, and executive updates.
• Support post-go-live hypercare activities and facilitate smooth handover to operations/support teams.
• Ensure compliance with project governance, methodologies, and change control processes.
• Collaborate with client PMO, release management, and technical teams for integration with non-SAP systems.

Requirements

• 10+ years in SAP program delivery.Proven project and program delivery track record across multiple full lifecycle SAP programs, including multi-country roll-outs of significant size, scope and complexity for ECC and S/4 HANA.
• Substantial proven experience working in client facing consulting roles.

• Proven experience managing SAP cutovers across one or more modules (S/4HANA, ECC, BW, SCM, etc.).
• Strong understanding of SAP technical landscapes, transport management, and data migration tools (e.g., LSMW, BODS, Migration Cockpit).
• Experience in SNP CrystalBridge solution is a big advantage.
• Experience with project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Jira, Smartsheet).
• Experience with S/4HANA implementations or conversions.
• Familiarity with agile and hybrid delivery models.
• Prior experience in large global rollouts or multi-country deployments. Experience of working with global teams and a track record of leading teams of consultant based locally and remotely. Ability to lead teams in complex environments that include multi-vendors, complex client organization structures and geographically distributed teams.
• SAP or PMP certification preferred.
• Ability to articulate value based propositions, own and review program financials, and lead proposal presentations in order to create a compelling propositions for clients.
• Ability to lead teams to prepare large proposals and program plans, facilitate leverage differentiators (e.g. specific consulting frameworks, etc.).
• Outstanding communication skills (verbal and written) and presentation skills, with the ability to influence C-Level stakeholders within client organizations.
• Project-related mobility/willingness to travel.

Benefits

About Infosys Consulting

Be part of a globally renowned management consulting firm on the front-line of industry disruption and at the cutting edge of technology. We work with market leading brands across sectors. Our culture is inclusive and entrepreneurial. Being a mid-size consultancy within the scale of Infosys gives us the global reach to partner with our clients throughout their transformation journey.

Our core values, IC-LIFE, form a common code that helps us move forward. IC-LIFE stands for Inclusion, Equity and Diversity, Client, Leadership, Integrity, Fairness, and Excellence. To learn more about Infosys Consulting and our values, please visit our careers page.

Within Europe, we are recognized as one of the UK’s top firms by the Financial Times and Forbes due to our client innovations, our cultural diversity and dedicated training and career paths. Infosys is on the Germany’s top employers list for 2023. Management Consulting Magazine named us on their list of Best Firms to Work for. Furthermore, Infosys has been recognized by the Top Employers Institute, a global certification company, for its exceptional standards in employee conditions across Europe for five years in a row.

We offer industry-leading compensation and benefits, along with top training and development opportunities so that you can grow your career and achieve your personal ambitions. Curious to learn more? We’d love to hear from you.... Apply today!

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