Position: Data Migration / Cutover Manager (ID11181)
Company: Infopulse
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Infopulse welcomes talented professionals to join our project as a Data Migration Manager/Cutover Manager.

Our customer, with its head office in the EU, is an international company that has been specializing in logistics for more than 20 years. Our customer manages thousands of trucks around the EU, provides transportation, logistics, and basic warehouse services.

The cutover manager will be collaborating closely with project managers to develop and execute the pre-cutover, cutover, and post-cutover A implementation of SAP and all inter-related activities. The cutover manager will develop the strategy, approach, checklists, and project plans to drive to a successful deployment of the new SAP S/4HANA application. The cutover manager will be the leader of the cutover execution.

Areas of Responsibility
Involvement in defining the process, responsibility for data migration across all functional work streams, and identification of data to be transitioned from legacy systems to S/4HANA
Development of core data migration deliverables and technical assets and support of the testing throughout the data migration test cycles
Segregation of master, reference, and transactional data
Assessment of data quality
Management of risks associated with data migration
Collaboration with existing legacy system support teams to define a data migration strategy
Ownership of data extraction, transformation, and migration activities
Management of data validation processes for migrated data
Support of the programme plan for each iteration of data migration
Collaboration with the functional/technical team to understand what data needs to be redacted
Should be able to identify resource requirements, assign tasks and activities that lead to programme completion
Qualifications
Experience in running data migration in major projects
Full life cycle experience of the data migration process, from strategy and planning through to execution and go-live
Ability to define and execute multiple detailed activity plans simultaneously, maintaining an ability to articulate progress and status clearly to key stakeholders
Natural ability to coordinate and facilitate diverse teams of different skill sets, backgrounds, cultures, and languages
Good understanding of key SAP functional process streams as well as project management skills
Ability to conduct and facilitate workshops with business representatives, management, and executive, team member resources, and external 3rd party groups
Problem-solving skills that use techniques to identify the root cause of the issue and the ability to communicate (verbally) this position clearly
Attention to detail in written communications
Advanced communication skills with a demonstrated ability to provide advice, consult, and negotiate with senior management and to manage key relationships between stakeholders involved in an upgrade/implementation environment
Good performance under pressure
Cutover management, especially of implementing SAP projects
Functional knowledge of specific SAP modules is an advantage
Understanding of the release management concept
Demonstrated skills in customer-facing activities covering requirements gathering, data preparation, cutover support, and documentation preparation
Relevant cutover management and data management experience
Upper-Intermediate level of English