Sr. Project Lead at Horizontal Talent in Maplewood, Minnesota

Job Description:

Job Summary:

• This position will lead the preparation, planning, testing and execution of Cutover plans for Global Deployments.


• The role will work directly with management and key resources to establish required cutover strategies and lead a team of resources to plan out the business ramp-down, blackout and business ramp-up phases of each cutover.

• Support planning and facilitation of End-to-End Walkthroughs


• Lead preparation of Cutover plans


• Lead preparation of Continuity plans


• Work with Global Cutover team to prepare and execute Cutover workshops


• Collaborate with business teams in development, preparedness and execution of plans


• Drive closure of business readiness actions from workshops


• Support preparation of Gate deliverables


• Support testing and execution of Cutover plans

• This role may require occasional weekend work (up to seven times during the year of this contract).


• Looking for someone with 3-5 years of experience or so.


• Would not be a good role for a fresh grad.


• Has to be comfortable with taking charge and running meetings.

• Project Management


• SAP


• Facilitation skills/experience


• Cross-functional business experience


• IT Cutover experience


• PowerBI