ERP Release Manager

Chevron Corp.; Buenos Aires; Híbrido; ARS 1.000.000 - 1.500.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Chevron Global Business Services (GBS) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is seeking an ERP Release Manager to govern end-to-end release lifecycles across SAP ECC and S/4HANA. This role partners with technical teams, project stakeholders, and business partners to drive release excellence, compliance, risk management, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities include defining release strategies, leading change management, coordinating multi-team releases, and ensuring robust testing, documentation,

Formación

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in IT, CS, engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years in Release/Change Management, ERP operations, or SAP delivery.
• Experience in large SAP environments (ECC and/or S/4HANA).
• Strong understanding of release lifecycles, deployment, and governance.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and multiple priorities.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience supporting enterprise apps in global contexts.

Responsabilidades

• Define and maintain release strategies, schedules, and calendars across SAP ECC and S/4HANA environments.
• Coordinate release planning among SAP functional, development, QA, security, and business stakeholders.
• Lead SAP change management to ensure governance and approvals are followed.
• Manage deployments, upgrades, patches, and emergency fixes with minimal disruption.
• Coordinate testing activities with QA, including regression and UAT.
• Identify and mitigate release risks and dependencies; communicate status.
• Maintain release docs, deployment plans, rollback procedures, and post-implementation reports.
• Drive process improvements through automation and best practices.

Conocimientos

Release management

Change management

ERP operations

SAP program delivery

Stakeholder management

Educación

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Herramientas

SAP Solution Manager

Jira

ServiceNow

Transport management

Descripción del empleo

Chevron Global Business Services (GBS), located in Buenos Aires (Puerto Madero), Argentina, is accepting applications for the position of ERP Release Manager.

The ERP Release Manager is responsible for governing and coordinating the end-to-end release lifecycle across SAP environments, including ECC and S/4HANA. The role ensures the successful planning, execution, and deployment of ongoing support releases, enhancement projects, upgrades, migration activities, and emergency fixes while minimizing business disruption. Working closely with technical teams, project stakeholders, and business partners, this position drives release excellence, compliance, risk management, and continuous process improvement across the SAP landscape.

Responsibilities for this position may include but are not limited to:

• Define, develop, and maintain release strategies, schedules, and calendars across multiple SAP environments (ECC and S/4HANA).
• Coordinate release planning activities among SAP functional teams, developers, infrastructure teams, QA, security, and business stakeholders.
• Lead and govern the SAP change management process, ensuring all releases comply with established approval and governance requirements.
• Manage release deployments, upgrades, enhancements, patches, and emergency fixes with minimal impact to business operations.
• Partner with QA teams to ensure appropriate testing activities, including regression, integration, and user acceptance testing.
• Identify, assess, mitigate, and communicate release-related risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Maintain release documentation, deployment plans, rollback procedures, release notes, and post-implementation reports.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives through process optimization, automation, and adoption of release management best practices.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, audit requirements, security standards, and regulatory expectations.
• Coordinate release activities supporting SAP ECC to S/4HANA migration programs and transformation initiatives.
• Facilitate post-release reviews and lessons learned sessions to improve future release performance.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all release-related communications across ERP stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in Release Management, Change Management, ERP Operations, or SAP Program Delivery.
• Experience managing releases within large-scale SAP environments, including ECC and/or S/4HANA.
• Strong understanding of software release lifecycle management, deployment processes, and change governance.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and organizational skills.
• Experience supporting enterprise applications in complex global environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA migration or transformation projects.
• Knowledge of ITIL, Agile, DevOps, and related delivery methodologies.
• Experience with SAP Solution Manager, Jira, ServiceNow, or similar release and change management tools.
• Understanding of SAP Basis, transport management, testing methodologies, and deployment practices.
• Experience driving process automation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Professional certifications related to IT Service Management, Project Management, Agile, or SAP are preferred.

Relocation Options:

Relocation may be considered.

International Considerations:

Expatriate assignments will not be considered.

Chevron regrets that it is unable to sponsor employment Visas or consider individuals on time-limited Visa status for this position.