SAP Release Manager – SAP S/4HANA RISE & ALM
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About the Role
Our partner is seeking an SAP Release Manager to govern and orchestrate SAP release activities across complex S/4HANA RISE landscapes. You will ensure controlled, compliant, and predictable deployments across environments, coordinating between technical teams and business stakeholders.
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Responsibilities
- Manage and coordinate end to end SAP release cycles across S/4HANA RISE environments, ensuring controlled and predictable deployments across Dev, QA, Staging, and Production
- Oversee SAP transport management processes, including sequencing, dependency handling, deployment planning, and execution
- Lead Change Advisory Board (CAB) processes and ensure all releases comply with organizational change governance policies
- Manage SAP Change and Transport Management processes using tools such as SAP Solution Manager (ChaRM/CTS+), SAP Cloud ALM, and related ALM platforms
- Coordinate release calendars, cutover planning, and deployment scheduling across multiple teams and systems
- Ensure adherence to SOX compliance, audit controls, and regulatory requirements for all release activities
- Collaborate closely with development, basis, testing, security, PMO, and business teams to ensure release readiness and alignment
- Monitor release risks, dependencies, and issues, and implement mitigation and escalation strategies where required
- Coordinate regression testing, UAT execution support, and release validation activities prior to production deployment
- Maintain comprehensive release documentation, audit trails, approvals, and deployment records
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in SAP Release Management within large scale enterprise SAP environments
- Strong hands on experience managing SAP S/4HANA RISE landscapes across multiple environments
- Deep expertise in SAP Solution Manager (ALM), including ChaRM, CTS/CTS+, release and transport management, and test management modules
- Experience with SAP Cloud ALM and SAP Change & Transport Management Services (CTMS)
- Familiarity with SAP release automation tools such as Rev Trac, ActiveControl, or equivalent solutions
- Strong knowledge of SAP transport sequencing, dependency management, and end to end release governance processes
- Proven experience working with Change Advisory Boards (CAB) and structured change management frameworks
- Strong understanding of SOX compliance, audit readiness, and regulatory control requirements
- Experience integrating SAP release processes with enterprise tools such as Jira and ServiceNow
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to coordinate across technical and business teams
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Role Overview
- This role is responsible for governing and orchestrating SAP release activities across complex, enterprise scale S/4HANA RISE landscapes.
- You will ensure that every change, transport, and deployment is delivered in a controlled, compliant, and predictable manner across development, QA, staging, and production environments.
- Acting as the central point of coordination between technical teams, business stakeholders, and governance bodies, you will play a critical role in ensuring smooth and risk mitigated releases.
Accountabilities
- Manage and coordinate end to end SAP release cycles across S/4HANA RISE environments, ensuring controlled and predictable deployments across Dev, QA, Staging, and Production.
- Oversee SAP transport management processes, including sequencing, dependency handling, deployment planning, and execution.
- Lead Change Advisory Board (CAB) processes and ensure all releases comply with organizational change governance policies.
- Manage SAP Change and Transport Management processes using tools such as SAP Solution Manager (ChaRM/CTS+), SAP Cloud ALM, and related ALM platforms.
- Coordinate release calendars, cutover planning, and deployment scheduling across multiple teams and systems.
- Ensure adherence to SOX compliance, audit controls, and regulatory requirements for all release activities.
- Collaborate closely with development, basis, testing, security, PMO, and business teams to ensure release readiness and alignment.
- Monitor release risks, dependencies, and issues, and implement mitigation and escalation strategies where required.
- Coordinate regression testing, UAT execution support, and release validation activities prior to production deployment.
- Maintain comprehensive release documentation, audit trails, approvals, and deployment records.
- Track RICEF objects, transport dependencies, and inter project impacts across SAP landscapes.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance release efficiency, automation, and governance maturity.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in SAP Release Management within large scale enterprise SAP environments.
- Strong hands on experience managing SAP S/4HANA RISE landscapes across multiple environments.
- Deep expertise in SAP Solution Manager (ALM), including ChaRM, CTS/CTS+, release and transport management, and test management modules.
- Experience with SAP Cloud ALM and SAP Change & Transport Management Services (CTMS).
- Familiarity with SAP release automation tools such as Rev Trac, ActiveControl, or equivalent solutions.
- Strong knowledge of SAP transport sequencing, dependency management, and end to end release governance processes.
- Proven experience working with Change Advisory Boards (CAB) and structured change management frameworks.
- Strong understanding of SOX compliance, audit readiness, and regulatory control requirements.
- Experience integrating SAP release processes with enterprise tools such as Jira and ServiceNow.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to coordinate across technical and business teams.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to manage complex discussions and align multiple parties on release strategy and execution.
- Highly organized, detail oriented, and capable of managing multiple concurrent release streams in complex environments.
Benefits
- Fully remote role with flexibility to work from Poland.
- Competitive compensation package aligned with experience and industry standards.
- Opportunity to work on large scale SAP S/4HANA transformation programs.
- Exposure to enterprise level SAP landscapes and global release governance frameworks.
- Strong emphasis on professional growth and continuous learning opportunities.
- Collaboration with highly skilled cross functional SAP and IT teams.
- Participation in complex, high impact projects within regulated enterprise environments.
- Access to modern tools and structured release management processes.
- Stable, long term engagement in a critical enterprise technology function.
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- Our system identifies the top fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company.
- The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
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