Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a relat-ed field.
• 10+ years of SAP implementation, transformation, or deployment experience, including multiple full-lifecycle SAP implementations or major rollout programs.
• Significant SAP S/4HANA leadership experience across Innovate-to-Offer and Integrated Supply Chain processes.
• Strong functional understanding of product engineering, PLM, Engineering Change Management, engineer-ing records, material and product master governance, EBOM/MBOM, routings, production versions, revi-sion, and effectivity management.
• Broad Integrated Supply Chain experience covering procurement, supplier management, planning, manu-facturing, quality, plant maintenance/EAM, inventory, warehouse/EWM, logistics, transportation, compli-ance, and intercompany processes.
• Experience operating within a Global Template, regional deployment, and local business implementation model, including fit-to-standard validation and local-deviation governance.
• Demonstrated leadership of integrated SIT, UAT, regression testing, cutover validation, smoke testing, go-live, command center, hypercare, and stabilization.
• Strong understanding of data migration, integrations, security, infrastructure, reporting, business readi-ness, organizational change, and operational-support dependencies.
• Experience leading multiple functional workstreams and coordinating client, system-integrator, onshore, offshore, vendor, business SME, and site teams.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, planning, facilitation, risk management, is-sue resolution, and decision-making skills; willingness to provide concentrated onshore leadership during testing, cutover, go-live, and stabilization.

Roles & Responsibilities
• Own the integrated ITO and ISC deployment strategy, plan, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and readiness status for the local rollout.
• Partner closely with the Global Build Lead to translate the approved Global Template, release roadmap, design decisions, and dependencies into an executable local deployment.
• Lead functional Deployment Managers and integrate engineering, procurement, planning, manufacturing, quality, maintenance, inventory, warehouse, logistics, transportation, and related workstreams.
• Establish common governance, delivery expectations, acceptance criteria, reporting cadence, RAID management, escalation routes, and executive status reporting.
• Lead local fit-to-standard validation, identify justified legal, regulatory, operational, customer, plant, ware-house, reporting, control, and business-continuity deviations, and ensure formal governance and tracea-bility.
• Ensure approved requirements are reflected in co nfiguration, integrations, reports, data mappings, securi-ty roles, localized test scenarios, training, and cutover plans without compromising template integrity.
• Coordinate local data readiness, cleansing, enrichment, mapping, mock conversions, reconciliation, re-mediation, validation, reload, and business sign-off across ITO and ISC data domains.
• Provide integrated leadership for SIT, UAT, regression, cutover validation, smoke testing, and production validation, including localized scripts for deviations, data, integrations, controls, and site requirements.
• Establish defect governance, monitor severity, aging, trends, blocked scripts, closure rates, workarounds, and residual risk, and drive cross-functional root-cause resolution and retesting.
• Coordinate business and operational readiness across processes, data, integrations, security, reports, in-frastructure, training, change management, support, site operations, and contingency planning.
• Own the integrated ITO and ISC cutover plan and runbook, including transaction freezes, conversion, transports, security activation, integration changes, operational preparation, validation checkpoints, re-sources, and decision points.
• Lead mock cutovers, dress rehearsals, readiness reviews, governance gates, and ITO/ISC input to the final go/no-go decision.
• Lead the ITO and ISC command-center organization during production deployment, prioritizing issues based on safety, compliance, customer, manufacturing, supply, inventory, quality, financial, and opera-tional impact.
• Drive hypercare stabilization, monitor process performance and operational KPIs, define exit criteria, and transition documentation, knowledge, open items, and ownership to steady-state support.
• Provide consolidated readiness recommendations, residual-risk reporting, lessons learned, and improve-ment actions for subsequent deployment waves.

Generic Managerial Skills, If any
• Enterprise deployment leadership with integrated planning and execution across complex business and technology workstreams.
• Cross-functional team leadership, coaching, vendor management, and influence without direct reporting authority.
• Executive stakeholder communication, structured governance, facilitation, negotiation, and decision-making under deployment pressure.
• Risk, issue, defect, testing, data, readiness, and escalation management with strong business and opera-tional judgment.
• End-to-end process thinking, conflict resolution, accountability management, and coordination across global and local teams.
• Cutover, go-live, command-center, stabilization, knowledge-transfer, and transition-to-support leadership.

Salary Range: $150,000 - $190,000 a year

TCS Employee Benefits Summary:

Discretionary Annual Incentive.

Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.

Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.

Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.

Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.

Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.

Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.