A Snapshot of Your Day
As the SAP S/4HANA Rollout Cutover Lead (f/m/d), you will play a pivotal role in ensuring successful business transitions across Siemens Energy's global S4E Unify transformation program. You will define and govern the overall cutover strategy, coordinate global and local deployment activities, and ensure all business, IT, and third-party teams are fully prepared for go-live.
Working closely with Rollout Managers, Template Teams, Cluster Cutover Managers, business stakeholders, and external partners, you will oversee integrated cutover planning, manage critical dependencies and risks, and drive business readiness throughout every rollout wave. Your leadership will help ensure smooth, controlled, and low-risk transitions into the new SAP S/4HANA environment.
How You’ll Make an Impact
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Own and drive the global SAP S/4HANA cutover strategy, ensuring a controlled, business-ready transition across all rollout waves
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Develop and maintain integrated cutover plans covering data migration, system validation, go-live activities, legacy system integration, and decommissioning
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Define governance, readiness criteria, key milestones, and decision gates while ensuring all deployment dependencies are managed effectively
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Identify cutover risks early, develop contingency and fallback strategies, and lead issue resolution to minimize business disruption during critical go-live periods
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Guide and support Cluster Cutover Managers by providing standardized methodologies, coordinating execution, and ensuring alignment with global deployment objectives
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Monitor cutover performance through KPIs, status reporting, and governance meetings while providing clear, decision-oriented updates to Program Management and executive stakeholders
What You Bring
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Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience
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Extensive experience leading SAP S/4HANA cutover, deployment, transition, or large-scale ERP transformation programs in complex global environments
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Strong expertise in integrated cutover planning, data migration, system validation, go-live management, legacy system integration, and operational readiness
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Proven experience in risk management, contingency planning, business continuity, milestone tracking, KPI reporting, and executive-level communication
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Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and coordinate business stakeholders, global delivery organizations, Cluster Cutover Managers, and external implementation partners
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Fluent English is required; German or additional languages relevant to the rollout regions are considered an advantage
About the Team
In our Business Functions we enable our organization to reach their targets by providing best-in class services and solutions in the areas of IT, HR, Finance, Real Estate, Strategy & Technology and more.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100.000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.
Rewards/Benefits
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In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer-financed company pension scheme
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We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
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We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
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The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programmes and learning materials are available for this purpose
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In relation to the "compatibility of family and work", we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical
We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.
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The S4 program at Siemens Energy, formally called S4E or S4E‑Unify, is one of the major global Business- & IT Transformation Programs within Siemens Energy (SE). Its key objective is to transform our historical patchwork of 23 legacy SAP systems into a completely new platform based on the latest state-of-the-art SAP S/4 HANA technology. At the same time, S4E-Unify is aiming for the optimization and harmonization of SE’s worldwide Business Processes across all Business Areas, Regions and Functions. Goal is to significantly reduce complexity, increase speed and flexibility, foster cross-organizational collaboration and finally drive significant cost reductions. The S4E-Unify core team consists of roughly 300 colleagues around the globe plus a substantial extended community of subject matter experts (SME), change network ambassadors and other contributors. It affects 40,000 global users and follows an implementation roadmap through 2030. The S4E program is delivered through phased “Unify” rollout waves, bringing sites and business areas live step by step on SAP S/4HANA. It includes standardized business templates, a defined operating model with strong governance and board‑level sponsorship, and an enhanced user experience that modernizes how employees work.
