Remote S/4 Readiness Deployment Lead

Collins Aerospace; Cedar Rapids (IA); Remote; USD 157,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and visioninsurance

Three weeks of vacation for newly hire

Generous 401(k) plan with employer-mat

Student Loan RepaymentProgram

Life insurance and disabilitycoverage

Pet insurance and home/auto insurance

Parental leave benefits

Ovia Health, fertility, and familyplAn

Adoption Assistance

AutismBenefit

Employee Assistance Plan with sessions

Wellness rewards program

Doctor on Demand

Bright Horizons child and elder care

Teladoc Medical Experts

Job summary

Collins Aerospace is seeking a Business Readiness Deployment Lead for a remote role based in Cedar Rapids, IA. You will drive readiness strategy, governance, and cross-site execution across multi-wave S/4HANA deployments, coordinating with manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain teams.

The role requires extensive leadership, exceptional communication, and the ability to manage large, matrixed organizations. Travel up to 25% within the U.S. is expected as part of multi-site readiness efforts.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience.
• 7 years in business readiness, transformation leadership, or enterprise deployment.
• Experience leading multi-site or multi-wave readiness efforts.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and executive alignment skills.
• Requires deep management and leadership knowledge to lead cross-department project teams or manage across multiple related departments.
• Operational knowledge of manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, or AM.
• Proven ability to work effectively across large, matrixed organizations.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the company’s immigration sponsorship now or in the future.

Responsibilities

• Own readiness integrity for assigned user groups across all waves.
• Approve user-group readiness playbooks and scenario governance.
• Interpret site-level readiness signals and convert them into recommendations.
• Translate strategy into actionable multi-wave readiness plans.
• Identify risks early and coordinate mitigation across sites and functions.
• Provide executive-level readiness recommendations and drive continuous improvement.
• Understand hRC operational realities across manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, and aftermarket.
• Ensure consistent adoption of global processes and cross-SBU flows.
• Identify and elevate systemic process gaps or structural design misalignments.
• Lead readiness reviews and validate readiness indicators and scorecards.
• Ensure consistent adherence to enterprise readiness frameworks, templates, and wave gates.
• Consolidate site-level insights into wave readiness views and coach sites through gaps.
• Support coordination of criteria for meaningful “day-in-the-life” scenario testing.
• Assess scenario outcomes to determine true operational readiness.
• Identify multi-site patterns requiring cross-user-group mitigation.
• Support cutover planning, rehearsals, and stabilization across sites.
• Identify cross-site/wave critical path dependencies impacting success.
• Ensure consistent cutover methodology application and readiness for site go-live.
• Translate program impacts into clear, role-specific messaging.
• Enable site leaders to prepare their teams and navigate resistance.
• Influence across matrixed environments and build strong cross-functional relationships.
• Diagnose issues quickly and adjust plans without losing momentum.
• Adapt to evolving requirements and operational constraints in a fast-paced environment.
• Apply pattern recognition to improve readiness consistency wave-to-wave.

Skills

Communication

Facilitation

Executive alignment

Cross-site leadership

Matrix leadership

Education

University degree

Advanced degree

Job description

Collins Aerospace is seeking a Business Readiness Deployment Lead for a remote role based in Cedar Rapids, IA. You will drive readiness strategy, governance, and cross-site execution across multi-wave S/4HANA deployments, coordinating with manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain teams.

The role requires extensive leadership, exceptional communication, and the ability to manage large, matrixed organizations. Travel up to 25% within the U.S. is expected as part of multi-site readiness efforts.