Lead - Transformation Release and Cutover Management

3 months ago

Dubai, United Arab Emirates Chalhoub Group Full time

**INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT**

For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer.

Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work.

To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up “The Greenhouse”, which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles.

**What you'll be doing**

This role is responsible for providing technical leadership and ensuring the successful implementation of the Release Management, Cutover and Environment Management horizontal stream of the Transformation program.

**Job Summary**
- This position will take the lead on planning, execution, and governance of all ERP system releases, ensuring smooth deployment across SAP environments and minimizing business disruption. In this role, the Lead will work with our System Integrator to develop and execute a detailed cutover plan, managing the transition from legacy systems to SAP ERP, including dry runs, mock cutovers, and go-live activities.
- A critical element of this role is to oversee environment management, ensuring the provisioning, configuration, and maintenance of development, test, and production environments, including external systems outside of the Program scope
- This role requires strong experience in SAP S/4 HANA transport processes, SAP basis and SAP environment management to ensure best practices and strong governance and control is applied throughout
- The Release Management, Cutover and Environment Management Lead will work closely with other functional business and tech leads, stakeholders, and end-users to ensure effective and controlled management of releases, with proper governance and control as well as ensuring that any legacy or external systems are considered in both Cutover and Environment Management
- This role will align with functional technology streams in the program to ensure that the requirements of each functional area are effectively captured in this streams’ scope, and to ensure that dependencies required of functional streams are well managed into Release Management, Cutover and Environment Management
- This role requires knowledge of ERP and enterprise systems, strong leadership capabilities, and excellent communication skills to work with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and vendors.

All of the below are assumed to be in collaboration/cooperation with the System Integrator:
**Release Planning & Strategy**:

- Develop and manage a comprehensive release strategy and schedule for the ERP transformation, ensuring alignment with project timelines and business objectives.
- Coordinate with horizontal streams teams (e.g., integration, testing) as well as functional streams to plan, scope, and prioritize releases effectively.
- Develop and manage a strategy for handling SAP transports across different system layers (Development, Quality Assurance, Production) to ensure smooth migration of configuration changes, code updates, and other objects.

**Release & Transport Planning & Governance**:

- Establish and maintain governance processes for managing releases, ensuring that all changes, updates, and deployments follow approved procedures and meet quality standards.
- Ensure that release risks are identified, documented, and mitigated, including potential impacts on business operations.
- Define clear processes for transport requests, approvals, and tracking to ensure that all transports are controlled and properly documented.
- Coordinate with SAP functional and technical teams to ensure the timely and accurate movement of transports between the various SAP environments (e.g., Development, Test, Production).
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