Enterprise Resources Planning Project Manager - Ohio, United States - Optomi

Description

Oracle ERP Cutover Management / Hybrid; Cleveland Ohio

The IT Lead, Cutover Management role will establish, standardize, and execute the Cutover Plan for BIOS (Business Integrated Operating Systems) initiatives. This role will be responsible for coordinating and compiling Cutover Steps, Dependencies, Owners, and timelines for both Oracle Cloud and all other boundary applications in scope. This role reports directly to the Oracle Platform IT Director.

Knowledge & Experience Required

• 10+ years of broad-based information systems or large platform/ERP implementation experience.
• 8+ years of demonstrated experience and success in leading and executing Cutover plans for large ERP platform implementations.
• Strong understanding of high-level flows like Order to Cash, Source to Pay and Planning, Manufacturing, and Inventory in Oracle ERP systems.
• Strong understanding of month-end tasks and dependencies.
• Strong exposure to Data Conversion process and dependencies.
• Proven experience effectively communicating with business domain stakeholders and technical teams.
• Strong project management skills and/or substantial exposure to project-based work structures.

Core Responsibilities and Tasks

• Establishes a standardized version of the Cutover Plan which can be re-used for future BIOS initiatives.
• Coordinates and compiles Business Continuity, Go-Live Contingency, and Hypercare strategy as part of Cutover planning.
• Develops, maintains, and manages the Cutover plan for BIOS initiatives, including both Oracle Cloud and all Boundary applications in scope.
• Works Closely with Business Leads and Workstreams to document the business cutover plan.
• Works Closely with the Legacy team and Workstreams to document Legacy system steps.
• Works Closely with Finance Business and IT teams and Data Conversion Team to capture Month End processing steps in both Legacy system and Oracle Cloud.
• Acts as a liaison between the Cutover Team and the related task execution team (OTI, ITC, PMI, STP, Data, OCM, Local Site System owners, etc.)
• Works closely with PMO, Change Management, and Workstream teams to document Internal and External Communication plans.
• Validates Cutover task content (tasks, dependencies, executors, durations, etc..) for various teams in the initiative.
• Validates task changes requested by the execution team members, as necessary.
• Runs Cutover documentation and validation calls starting from the Sprint phase.
• Runs Cutover Status calls UAT and Go Live cutover phases.
• Provide current updates on all delays, issues, and risks that arise during Cutover.
• Acts as the first point of contact for any issues/concerns that need to be resolved and is also contacted during the escalation process (i.e., a task is not being completed on time)
• Reviews each task triggered for various teams (i.e., it is copied on each team trigger email) to verify correctness for timing, dependency, etc.).
• Reports progress and status to various levels of management.
• Must be easily contacted by PMO/Cutover team (IM, email, phone); contact information should be populated in the Deployment Roster
• Compiles a list of contact numbers for executors of various steps in the cutover plan.
• Assists with the creation of Go Live coverage/travel plan for Business and IT teams.

The successful candidate must have proven and strong experience working in ERP implementations and must be a people leader to collaborate across various Digital technology and Business teams.