SAP Cutover Lead; S​/HANA, EWM & Manufacturing

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VMG Labs fosters a culture that emphasizes transparent client relationships, continuous learning, and innovation. The company serves diverse industries through low-code solutions, bespoke development, ERP consulting, systems integration, and AMS services.

For clients looking for great talent at competitive rates, we have three development centres in South Africa - through which we can provide world-class talent.

This is a remote position.

About the role

We are looking for a senior SAP Cutover Lead to plan, coordinate and run cutover for SAP S/4

HANA deployments, with a focus on Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) and Manufacturing. You will be the central point of coordination between business stakeholders, IT, implementation partners, plants and warehouse operations. Your job is to keep go-lives on schedule and operations running without disruption.

The engagement starts with a plant go-live. There is scope to take ownership of cutover across three more sites in a multi-plant rollout.

What you’ll do

• Build end-to-end cutover strategies across warehouse, manufacturing, supply chain and corporate functions.
• Define cutover governance, templates, milestone reviews and go/no-go decision processes.
• Own the detailed cutover plan, runbooks and deployment schedules, and manage critical path, dependencies and escalations.
• Lead cutover for SAP EWM warehouse go-lives and manufacturing plant deployments, including inventory conversion and production readiness.
• Plan and run multiple mock cutovers, then validate durations, sequencing and resourcing, and close out remediation items.
• Coordinate functional leads, architects, development, data migration, MDG, infrastructure, system integrators, vendors and the PMO.
• Run the command center during deployment, and manage the move into hypercare and the handover to support.
• Maintain risk and issue logs, contingency and rollback plans, and executive status reporting.

What you’ll bring

• 10+ years of SAP implementation experience.
• 5+ years leading SAP cutovers on large-scale programs.
• Extensive hands-on experience with SAP EWM go-lives and warehouse deployments.
• Experience supporting SAP Manufacturing deployments (PP, QM, Logistics Execution).
• A track record of multi-site or wave-based rollouts.
• Experience leading large cross-functional teams and working alongside system integrators.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making under pressure.
• A bachelor’s degree in IT, Business, Supply Chain, Engineering or a related field.

Nice to have

• SAP EWM certification and/or PMP.
• Experience in food and beverage, CPG, manufacturing or distribution.
• Experience with high-volume warehouses and 24x7 manufacturing operations.
• Multiple successful SAP go-lives and enterprise cutovers.