Director, SaaS Migration Program Execution (m/w/d)

Part of the Wolters Kluwer's CP & ESG division, our award-winning CCH® Tagetik expert solution provides the strategic & financial intelligence platform that enables CFOs and their peers, in global enterprises, to propel their strategy with faster and better-informed decisions.

CCH Tagetik provides a comprehensive, data-driven, AI-based CPM platform for Financial Close & Consolidation, Extended Planning including financial & operational planning, ESG and Regulatory reporting, and Corporate Tax including Global Minimum Tax.

With embedded AI and state-of-the-art governance, the open and extensible platform easily connects leading operational solutions to create enterprise-wide insights, drive growth, and navigate change for our customers to gain the greatest value, today and tomorrow.

Role Summary

The Director, Saa S Migration Program Execution (m/w/d) , will be responsible for overseeing the entire migration process for Wolters Kluwer CCH Tagetik's existing customer base .

This position will own the transition from legacy deployment and commercial models to the strategic cloud platform and the latest packaging and pricing models.

Responsibilities include

• Managing the migration of commercial models for cloud customers who are still using legacy models.
• Leading both the commercial and technical migration for on-premise customers.
• This role is accountable for converting migration strategy into operational execution, coordinating cross-functional teams across Sales, Customer Success, Professional Services, Cloud Operations, Legal, Finance and Product.

Key responsibilities

• Migration portfolio management
• Own the global Saa S migration portfolio, maintaining a consolidated view of all migration opportunities across customer cohorts and geographies.
• Translate migration strategy into executable annual and quarterly migration plans, customer migration waves and measurable business outcomes.
• Own customer prioritization, migration sequencing and cohort governance, continuously reassessing customer readiness, migration complexity and commercial opportunity throughout the migration lifecycle.
• Recalibrate migration priorities and customer cohorts based on new customer information, migration outcomes and changing business priorities.
• Migration program leadership
• Lead execution of the global Saa S migration roadmap across all migration cohorts and regions.
• Establish and operate the Migration Execution Office as the central coordination function across Sales, Customer Success, Professional Services, Consulting Partners, Cloud Operations, Finance, Legal and Product.
• Orchestrate end-to-end execution across all participating functions, ensuring effective planning, dependency management, handovers and accountability throughout the migration process.
• Ensure migration execution remains aligned with strategic objectives, customer commitments, available capacity and financial targets.
• Drive consistent execution through standardized migration methodologies, operational playbooks, templates and governance processes.
• Migration governance & performance management
• Establish and facilitate the governance structure supporting the migration program including executive decision forums, operational reviews and performance reporting.
• Define, monitor and continuously improve migration KPIs, dashboards and reporting to provide transparency on migration progress, customer status, commercial outcomes, delivery performance and business case realization.
• Identify systemic bottlenecks, operational risks and recurring execution challenges, driving corrective actions across the organization.
• Own migration exception management, ensuring customer, commercial, contractual, technical and operational escalations are resolved efficiently and consistently.
• Ensure adherence to commercial guardrails, approval processes, pricing governance and migration policies.
• Capacity planning & execution readiness
• Define migration capacity requirements across Professional Services, Consulting Partners, Cloud Operations and supporting functions, balancing migration demand with available delivery resources.
• Ensure migration readiness across all participating functions prior to each migration wave, including resource availability, governance, customer preparation and operational planning.
• Provide executive recommendations on resource allocation, outsourcing opportunities, partner utilization and execution scalability.
• Customer migration execution
• On-premise customer migration (technical & commercial)
• Oversee end-to-e
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