Mission Systems S/4HANA Wave Deployment Lead, Senior Manager
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Mission Systems Wave Deployment Lead coordinating S/4HANA deployments for aerospace and defense, responsible for planning, execution, and cross-functional coordination.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain detailed deployment plans for assigned Mission Systems waves and sites.
- Coordinate deployment activities from initial site engagement through hypercare.
- Apply standardized deployment methodologies, tools, playbooks, and governance.
- Integrate site activities with the broader S/4HANA program schedule.
- Identify and manage cross-functional dependencies, milestones, and resource needs.
- Lead site readiness assessments across Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Finance, and other impacted functions.
- Partner with site leadership to identify readiness gaps and develop mitigation plans.
- Track readiness milestones, actions, risks, and decisions.
- Coordinate readiness reviews and support go-live entry and exit recommendations.
- Ensure sites understand deployment expectations, timelines, and required deliverables.
- Coordinate deployment activities across:
- Business process and functional teams
- Data migration
- System integration testing and user acceptance testing
- Organizational change management
- Training
- Cutover
- Digital Technology
- Boundary applications
- Site operations
- Facilitate cross-functional deployment meetings and working sessions.
- Escalate unresolved risks, issues, and decisions to program leadership.
- Support the development and execution of site cutover plans.
- Coordinate mock cutovers, deployment rehearsals, and readiness checkpoints.
- Support command center planning and execution during go-live.
- Track deployment issues, business impacts, and recovery actions.
- Provide timely deployment status updates to site and program leadership.
- Coordinate post-go-live hypercare activities for assigned sites.
- Support issue triage, prioritization, and resolution.
- Track stabilization metrics and hypercare exit criteria.
- Coordinate the transition from hypercare to steady-state support.
- Capture lessons learned and incorporate improvements into future deployment waves.
- Maintain deployment schedules, trackers, dashboards, and status reports.
- Manage deployment risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
- Support executive and site-level deployment communications.
- Coordinate site visits, workshops, and readiness activities.
- Partner with change management and training teams to support business adoption.
- Ensure deployment activities follow enterprise standards and program governance.
- Promote consistency while recognizing legitimate site-specific requirements.
- Travel: Up to 40%, depending on the deployment schedule (domestic and international)
Requirements:
- Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience.
- Typically requires 7 or more years of relevant experience in program management, project management, operations, manufacturing, supply chain, ERP implementation, or business transformation.
- Experience coordinating complex, cross-functional projects or deployments.
- Experience working with manufacturing, supply chain, operations, or enterprise systems.
- Demonstrated experience in planning, organization, communication, and stakeholder management.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in complex and changing environments.
- U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
- Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Student Loan Repayment Program
- Life insurance and disability coverage
- Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
- Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
- Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
- Adoption Assistance
- Autism Benefit
- Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
- Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
- Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
- Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
- Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
- And More!
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