Deployment Lead Global ERP Transformation (Finance & Records)

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Deployment Lead to join our global ERP digital transformation team. The successful candidate will be a strong leader who collaborates with stakeholders to define and manage deployment schedules plans and requirements ensuring alignment with quality standards organizational readiness and successful post-go-live processes across multiple releases and business units. This role is critical to ensuring predictable low-risk deployments within a complex multi-release ERP transformation (Elevate) and serves as the integration point between delivery change readiness and stabilization.

This is a timebound full-time position.

Key Responsibilities

Deployment Planning and Coordination

• Works with the Delivery Lead PMO and cross workstream leads to define end-to-end deployment strategy schedule and readiness criteria across releases.
• Defines and maintains deployment of work plans cutover activities milestones and required personnel.
• Manages cross release and cross unit dependencies deployment risks and decision points.
• Coordinates deployment activities across business functions and ensures deployment planning aligns with enterprise calendars regulatory constraints and business readiness milestones.
• Provides deployment impact input into release of sequencing and scope of decisions.

Business Readiness Assessment and Organizational Alignment

• Leads objective deployment readiness assessments across:
  • Application and configuration readiness
  • Data and integration readiness
  • Security controls and compliance readiness
  • Training and organizational adoption readiness
• Ensures executive sponsor awareness and commitment prior to go live.
• Partners with Change Management and Training leads to validate readiness assumptions and mitigate adoption risk.

Cutover and Go-Live Execution

• Works closely with the Test Lead to monitor system integration and user acceptance test outcomes.
• Validates adherence to quality management plans release governance standards and audit expectations.
• Defines and enforces go/no-go criteria based on pre-defined checklists and metrics; leads business readiness checkpoints and prepares for go/no-go decisions.
• Supports cutover planning including business shutdown windows freeze periods and sequencing business activities.
• Coordinates post go live (hypercare) support activities across business IT and vendors including triage defect prioritization and stabilization support.
• Defines stabilization entry/exit criteria and transition to steady-state support.

Key Challenges

• Managing the complexity of multi-release cross workstream ERP deployments.
• Balancing delivery pressure with deployment readiness risk and business adoption.
• Making fact-based recommendations in high stakes go/no-go situations.
• Managing scope to mitigate risks to quality controls or user readiness.

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration Information Technology Project Management or related field.
• 8 years of experience in deployment management release management or largescale enterprise system implementations.
• Demonstrated experience using structured ERP deployment methodologies
• Proven track record coordinating cross functional multi-workstream teams.
• Strong planning risk management and dependency management skills.
• Excellent communication planning and stakeholder management skills including the ability to communicate deployment readiness and risk clearly to executive audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP (strongly preferred)
• Experience supporting finance or regulated environments (controls audit compliance).
• Familiarity with organizational change management frameworks
• Experience with multi-release or phased ERP deployments rather than single big-bang go-lives.

A successful Deployment Lead for Elevate will:

• Reduce late-stage deployment surprises through earlier readiness and risk visibility
• Enable leadership to make confident informed go/no-go decisions
• Integrate deployment impacts into CR release and delivery decisions
• Improve predictability stability and adoption across ERP releases