Cutover Manager

Take on an exciting 18-month fixed-term contract with Refresco as the Aspire+ Cutover Manager and lead the smooth transition to a new SAP-centric environment. In this pivotal role, you'll leverage your strategic thinking, SAP expertise, and project management skills to develop and execute cutover plans that minimize disruption to business operations. Collaborating closely with IT, operations, and finance, you’ll ensure resources are aligned for a successful transition.

If you're a proactive leader with excellent communication skills, this is a unique opportunity to contribute to a high-impact, transformative project within a leading manufacturing business.

Cutover Manager

Kegworth, Derbyshire (J24, M1)

18-month FTC

What’s in it for you?

• An annual 15% bonus and a 20% project completion bonus
• Private healthcare up to family level
• 8% pension contributions
• £7,000 car allowance
• Access to a 24/7 virtual GP for you and your family
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• An enhanced holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays
• Purchase extra holiday (up to 3 days per year)
• Access to our brand new employee benefits platform offering discounts, cashback rewards, and access to more optional benefits
• Access to Grocery Aid – for free financial, personal, health and wellbeing support

About The Role

The Cutover Manager is key to ensuring a smooth transition from legacy systems to a new SAP-centric environment. This role requires strategic thinking, deep SAP knowledge in a manufacturing setting, and strong project management skills. You’ll develop and execute cutover plans to minimise business disruption, working closely with IT, operations, and finance teams to align resources. Excellent communication skills are essential for guiding project teams and addressing any issues during the cutover phase.

• Develop and implement cutover plans and strategies for all UK sites within the Aspire+ Programme scope.
• Coordinate with various teams to ensure successful execution of cutover activities.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with the cutover process.
• Manage the timeline and deliverables, ensuring alignment with project goals.
• Facilitate cutover dry runs and rehearsals to validate processes and readiness.
• Collaborate with technical teams on data migration and validation efforts.
• Monitor progress and provide regular updates to cutover stakeholders.
• Prepare and deliver cutover communication and training materials to end-users.
• Act as a point of escalation for cutover-related issues and challenges.
• Conduct post-cutover reviews to capture lessons learned and identify opportunities for improvement.

The ideal candidate for the Cutover Manager role will have:

• Proven experience as an ERP Cutover Manager or similar, leading business change
• Demonstrated ability to deliver large-scale transformational projects independently
• Background in managing significant programs impacting Enterprise Resource Management systems
• Essential experience in a SAP-based manufacturing environment
• Expertise in project management throughout the software delivery lifecycle
• Solid experience in risk management and mitigation strategies
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills for stakeholder engagement
• Comprehensive knowledge of project management methodologies and tools
• Strong technical skills
• Proficiency in project management and collaboration software

We want someone who will lead and role model to the Refresco core values - agile, responsible, excellent, passionate and entrepreneurial - see here for more detail:

About Refresco:

Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand

Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees.

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.

We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers.

Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.