Pay Rate: $100-$110 per hour
JOB DESCRIPTION
IG is looking for an experienced Business Readiness & Cutover Lead to support a major SAP S/4HANA implementation within a regulated manufacturing environment. This person will lead business-side readiness and cutover activities, ensuring operations, data, people, systems, and dependencies are prepared for a successful go-live.
Key Responsibilities:
-Develop and execute the consolidated Business Readiness and Business Cutover Plans, aligning them with the Technical Cutover Plan.
-Coordinate across business, manufacturing, supply chain, data migration, interfaces, validation, infrastructure, training, support, and other workstreams.
-Lead transactional data cleansing and migration readiness, tracking data quality, remediation activities, risks, and business ownership.
-Own the consolidated Go/No-Go criteria, assign owners, monitor readiness, escalate gaps, and provide clear updates to decision-making teams.
-Plan the operational ramp-down, freeze, restart, and gradual ramp-up, minimizing downtime across production and supply chain.
-Coordinate business readiness for the restart of critical interfaces and confirm that key business flows are stable before transaction volumes increase.
-Prepare the organization for Hypercare, including support roles, escalation procedures, command-centre readiness, stabilization metrics, and coverage for three-shift production operations.
-Maintain readiness trackers and dashboards, identify issues, and drive stakeholders toward timely resolution.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
-10+ years of ERP experience, including at least one SAP S/4HANA project.
-Experience supporting 3–5 major SAP go-lives.
-Hands-on experience leading business readiness, business cutover, and production go-live activities.
-Experience coordinating multiple workstreams in a complex implementation.
-Experience with go-lives where manufacturing and supply chain continuity are business-critical.
-Strong stakeholder-management skills and the ability to drive accountability in a collaborative, adaptable manner.
NICE TO HAVE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
-Pharmaceutical or medical device industry experience.
-Experience in a GxP-regulated environment.
-Computer System Validation (CSV).
-Data Migration and Master Data Management (MDM).
-Go-live command-centre management.
Vacancy: This posting is for a currently vacant role, and the successful candidate will be hired into an existing open position.
Artificial intelligence tools are used to assist in screening and assessing applicants for this position.
