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. Required Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Project Management, or related field. 8+ years of experience in deployment management, release management, or large‑scale 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 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.