S/4HANA Cutover Lead – Go-Live Orchestrator

Unipart; Oxford; On-site; GBP 77,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday

Pension

Bonus

Life assurance

Employee assistance programme

Wellbeing support

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Unipart is seeking a Senior SAP S/4HANA Cutover Manager to orchestrate end-to-end go-live execution for large-scale SAP programs. You will drive cutover, hypercare, and risk management across business, data, and technical streams to ensure a smooth transition from legacy systems.

The role requires leading cross-functional teams, defining go/no-go criteria, and coordinating with vendors and executives to minimize disruption while achieving business readiness and quality.

Qualifications

• Experience leading cutover management for SAP S/4HANA go-lives.
• Strong knowledge of deployment lifecycles, cutover sequencing, and data migration considerations.
• Ability to lead multi-vendor teams and communicate with executive sponsors.

Responsibilities

• Formulate and own end-to-end Cutover Strategy, including go-live criteria and runbooks.
• Build and refine a minute-by-minute Cutover Plan across deployment, data migration, and interface switching.
• Lead Cutover Rehearsals and Mock Cutovers to validate time estimates and resolve bottlenecks.
• Define Go/No-Go criteria and present status to steering committees and exec sponsors.
• Establish and lead the Cutover Command Centre during trial and live events, managing escalation and tracking.

Skills

Cutover management

SAP S/4HANA

Go-live orchestration

Cross-functional leadership

Vendor management

Education

SAP Certification / PMP / PRINCE2 / ITIL

Tools

ChaRM

SolMan

Cloud ALM

Job description

Unipart is seeking a Senior SAP S/4HANA Cutover Manager to orchestrate end-to-end go-live execution for large-scale SAP programs. You will drive cutover, hypercare, and risk management across business, data, and technical streams to ensure a smooth transition from legacy systems.

The role requires leading cross-functional teams, defining go/no-go criteria, and coordinating with vendors and executives to minimize disruption while achieving business readiness and quality.