Senior SAP Consultant

Consult; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Consult in London seeks an experienced SAP Cutover Manager to lead end-to-end cutover planning, execution and go-live activities for large-scale SAP S/4HANA transformations. You will coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure a seamless transition with minimal business disruption.

Mandatory: 10+ years SAP project experience, cutover management across large programs, and strong stakeholder communication. Preference for SAP Ariba and SuccessFactors exposure. Hybrid office model in London.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of SAP project experience.
• End-to-end cutover management on large SAP transformations.
• Experience coordinating global, multi-vendor delivery teams.
• Strong knowledge of SAP Activate methodology.

Responsibilities

• Cutover Planning & Governance: develop strategy, plan, milestones, and governance.
• Cutover Execution: lead rehearsals, coordinate cross-functional teams, manage go-live weekends.
• Data Migration & Validation: ensure loads, validation, and reconciliation.
• Risk & Dependency Management: identify dependencies, contingency planning, escalation.
• Hypercare Support: monitor stabilization and transition to BAU.

Skills

SAP S/4HANA implementation experience

End-to-end cutover management

Go-live & hypercare processes

Stakeholder management

Data migration coordination

Job description

SAP Cutover Manager

London, UK (4 days office in a week)

Contract (Inside IR35)

Note : Cutover Management Experience is Must !!

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced SAP Cutover Manager to lead and manage end-to-end cutover planning, execution, and go-live activities for large-scale SAP S/4HANA transformation programs. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in SAP S/4HANA implementations and a strong track record of coordinating cross-functional teams to ensure seamless transitions with minimal business disruption.

Experience in SAP cloud solutions such as SAP Ariba and SAP SuccessFactors will be highly preferred.

Mandatory Skills

• SAP S/4HANA implementation experience (Mandatory)
• End-to-end Cutover Management experience on large SAP transformation programs
• Strong understanding of SAP deployment, go-live, and hypercare processes
• Experience managing cutover activities across business and IT teams
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Strong risk, dependency, and issue management skills

Key Responsibilities:

Cutover Planning & Governance

• Develop and maintain the overall Cutover Strategy, Approach, and Detailed Cutover Plan.
• Define cutover activities, milestones, dependencies, resources, and timelines.
• Establish governance and reporting mechanisms for cutover execution.
• Drive go-live readiness assessments and stakeholder sign-offs.

Cutover Execution

• Lead all cutover rehearsal activities and mock cutovers.
• Coordinate business, functional, technical, infrastructure, testing, security, and data migration teams.
• Manage and monitor cutover execution during go-live weekends.
• Ensure timely resolution of risks, issues, and blockers during cutover.

Data Migration & Validation

• Collaborate with Data Migration teams to ensure successful data loads and validations.
• Coordinate business validation and sign-off processes.
• Ensure reconciliation activities are completed successfully.

Risk & Dependency Management

• Identify and manage cross-functional dependencies.
• Develop contingency and rollback plans.
• Escalate critical risks and issues to project leadership when required.

Hypercare Support

• Support transition into Hypercare and Business-As-Usual operations.
• Monitor stabilization activities and closure of post-go-live issues.

Required Experience

• 10+ years of SAP project experience.
• Cutover Management experience.
• At least 2 full-cycle SAP S/4HANA implementation or transformation programs.
• Experience coordinating global and multi-vendor delivery teams.
• Strong knowledge of SAP Activate methodology.

Preferred Experience

• SAP Ariba implementation or integration experience.
• SAP SuccessFactors implementation or integration experience.
• Experience in complex ERP transformation, migration, divestiture, or merger programs.
• PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, or SAP certification preferred.