PMO & Release Management Lead, ERP Deployment, Cutover Planning
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ERP release lead governing PMO, deployment, and cutover planning. Coordinating teams, risks, environments, and go-live readiness for enterprise ERP programs.
Responsibilities:
- Establish and manage release governance frameworks aligned with ERP program milestones
- Coordinate across functional, technical, infrastructure, security, and business teams
- Track program deliverables, risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans
- Maintain RAID logs and manage proactive escalations
- Support steering committee reporting and executive-level status updates
- Define and manage end-to-end ERP release calendars
- Coordinate multi-stream release schedules across development, testing, and production environments
- Manage release scope validation and readiness checkpoints
- Facilitate cross-team release planning workshops
- Ensure release documentation completeness and sign-offs
- Develop deployment strategies for large-scale ERP rollouts
- Coordinate environment readiness across DEV, QA, UAT, and Production environments
- Support infrastructure, security, and application readiness validation
- Manage release packaging and deployment sequencing
- Ensure rollback planning and fallback procedures are documented and validated
- Develop detailed ERP cutover plans including task sequencing and ownership
- Coordinate mock cutovers and rehearsal cycles
- Lead war-room execution during go-live events
- Track real-time execution progress during deployment windows
- Manage business downtime planning and communication
- Ensure hypercare transition readiness post go-live
- Identify deployment risks and operational constraints early
- Coordinate mitigation strategies across stakeholder groups
- Manage integration dependencies across upstream and downstream systems
- Ensure business continuity and minimal operational disruption
- Partner with business owners, ERP functional leads, infrastructure teams, and vendors
- Coordinate communication between delivery towers and leadership stakeholders
- Support executive readiness updates prior to go-live decisions
- Facilitate Go/No-Go readiness checkpoints
- Maintain release dashboards
Requirements:
- Proven experience leading PMO governance, release management, and cutover planning for ERP programs
- Strong program planning, RAID management, and executive stakeholder reporting skills
- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams across application, infrastructure, and security domains
- Familiarity with deployment methodologies, go-live readiness, and hypercare transition
- Proficiency with common PMO and release reporting tools (e.g., project plans, dashboards, RAID logs)


















