Cut Over Lead - Johannesburg, South Africa - Boardroom Appointments

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Verified Company

Johannesburg, South Africa

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Contract position

The Cutover Lead working closely with the Deployment Project Manager and Project Horizon Leadership team will execute and drive the pre-cutover, cutover, and post cutover Go-Live activity.

The Cutover Lead will provide the strategy, approach, checklists, and work plans to drive to a successful activation of the new ERP system including 3rd Party systems.

They will develop the detailed cutover checklist.

Minimum requirements:

Proven Track Record of similar type role on large scale ERP programmes
Strong and experienced cutover lead required to ensure thorough planning, execution, and completion of all relevant cutovers during Project Horizon rollouts.
Previous MS D365 cutover experience will be an advantage
Vendor interaction and vendor activity tracking experience
Excellent communication skills
Ability to work remote and drive active participation and task completion in an online environment
Ability to work with diverse project teams
Flexibility on working hours rollout and cutover phases necessitate some shift type patterns at times
Possible travel when restrictions are lifted
Tenacity and resilience to push through and remain positively focussed when extreme challenges are experienced
Ability to be firm but approachable with diverse team of all backgrounds and experts in their own function and lead activities with positive mindset

Responsibilities:

Develops detailed cutover checklist, integrated and consolidated project plan incorporating all Cut-Over activities across Project Scope, including technical, data and operations or business tasks with inputs on Business Activity and project teams, including potential Go
Live scenarios.
Ensures proper integration between different streams to form one integrated set of activities for a one integrated cutover plan
Responsible for detailed project management of the cutover and conversion deliverables to the new system/s, resolving discrepancies or process issues related to cutover
Responsible for ensuring successful planning and execution of integrated release cutover activities and associated system outages
Plans the resources, human and physical required for cutover activities and coordinates requirements for Go Live staffing and overall logistics
Develops the cutover command centre logistics, communication and escalation plan and command centre documentation (policies, procedures, downtime processes)
Provides Cutover status reporting to project leadership and key stakeholders
Ensures entry and exit criteria for each cutover is well articulated, documented and agreed with all stakeholders
Ensures entry into and exit out of cutover stage gates and audit requirements are met

- including the final Go/No-Go meetings for each roll-out

Acts as the final point of escalation for all Cutover issues, proactively bringing about appropriate interventions when the Cutover/s may be jeopardized
Leads integrated cutover activities for Pre-GoLive, Go-Live and Post Go-Live for 6 Cut
Over cycles:
Leads integrated cutover activities for multiple countries simultaneously, remotely, post SA deployment
Develops integrated Roll-Back Plan and Strategy and back out / contingency plans for Cutover/s
Raise Risks and Issues and perform mitigating actions to minimize risk on Business Operations and Technical Cut-Over
Ensure communication of the relevant components of the cutover plans including related dependencies with sub streams, with all relevant stakeholders
Develop, own, and lead a detailed operational/business preparation plan/s for buildup to cutover and cutover for each business function, taking into consideration customers, vendors, employees, business peak times, downtime the business can handle, how catchup will work etc.