SAP S/4HANA ITO+ISC Deployment Lead

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated ITO and ISC deployment strategy, plan, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and readiness status for the local rollout.
• Partner closely with the Global Build Lead to translate the approved Global Template, release roadmap, design decisions, and dependencies into an executable local deployment.
• Lead functional Deployment Managers and integrate engineering, procurement, planning, manufacturing, quality, maintenance, inventory, warehouse, logistics, transportation, and related workstreams.
• Establish common governance, delivery expectations, acceptance criteria, reporting cadence, RAID management, escalation routes, and executive status reporting.
• Lead local fit-to-standard validation, identify justified legal, regulatory, operational, customer, plant, warehouse, reporting, control, and business-continuity deviations, and ensure formal governance and traceability.
• Ensure approved requirements are reflected in configuration, integrations, reports, data mappings, security roles, localized test scenarios, training, and cutover plans without compromising template integrity.
• Coordinate local data readiness, cleansing, enrichment, mapping, mock conversions, reconciliation, remediation, validation, reload, and business sign-off across ITO and ISC data domains.
• Provide integrated leadership for SIT, UAT, regression, cutover validation, smoke testing, and production validation, including localized scripts for deviations, data, integrations, controls, and site requirements.
• Establish defect governance, monitor severity, aging, trends, blocked scripts, closure rates, workarounds, and residual risk, and drive cross-functional root-cause resolution and retesting.
• Coordinate business and operational readiness across processes, data, integrations, security, reports, infrastructure, training, change management, support, site operations, and contingency planning.
• Own the integrated ITO and ISC cutover plan and runbook, including transaction freezes, conversion, transports, security activation, integration changes, operational preparation, validation checkpoints, resources, and decision points.
• Lead mock cutovers, dress rehearsals, readiness reviews, governance gates, and ITO/ISC input to the final go/no-go decision.
• Lead the ITO and ISC command-center organization during production deployment, prioritizing issues based on