Release Delivery Lead

1351 Opella Healthcare IN P.Ltd; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Opella Health seeks an ERP Release Manager to lead SAP CABs, align releases with business objectives, and minimize disruptions across landscapes. You will coordinate calendars, manage transports, and drive end-to-end release delivery while leveraging tools like SAP Solution Manager, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow.

You should have 8+ years in ERP release management, deep S/4HANA knowledge, and experience with upgrade readiness, retrofit, freeze and downtime strategies.

Qualifications

• 8+ years as ERP Release Manager in complex landscapes.
• Strong SAP release management with S/4HANA architecture.
• Experience with retrofit, freeze and downtime strategies; familiarity with Jira, Solution Manager, Confluence and ServiceNow.
• Familiar with multi-geography deployments and Agile/SDLC approaches.

Responsibilities

• Lead SAP CABs and Cross-Digital CABs ensuring change controls adherence and improvement of the release framework.
• Coordinate release windows and annual calendar with business units, IT teams, and infrastructure teams to minimize disruption.
• Define, maintain and communicate SAP release calendar across landscape.
• Manage transport requests and sequencing across SAP landscapes.
• Act as Release Delivery Manager from scoping to delivery, communicating with stakeholders, identifying risks and mitigation.
• Continuous improvement of Release management practices, adoption of new tools and technologies.
• Governance of Release tools like Solution Manager, JIRA, Confluence, Service-Now, with emphasis on AI and automation.

Skills

SAP Release Mgmt

S/4HANA knowledge

Jira

Solution Manager

Confluence

ServiceNow

SAP Cloud ALM

Focused Build

SDLC

Agile methods

Education

Bachelor's Degree in IT or Engineering

Tools

Jira

Solution Manager

Confluence

ServiceNow

Focused Build

SAP Cloud ALM

SAP Activate

Job description

About the job:

We are seeking to construct a best in class digital organization, where the ERP will be a solid, adaptive backbone of our systems and our supporting functions applications are innovation technology solutions that give our business the (digital) wings to fly everyday! We are looking for Release Delivery Lead profile who ensures that the SAP system remains robust, secure, and aligned with business objectives while facilitating smooth system evolutions with releases and minimizing disruptions during changes.

Main responsibilities:

• Lead SAP Change Advisory Boards (CAB) and Cross-Digital CAB ensuring change controls adherence and improvement of the release framework
• Coordinate release windows and annual calendar with business units, IT teams, and infrastructure teams to minimize operational disruption
• Define, maintain and communicate SAP release calendar across landscape
• Manage transport requests and ensure proper sequencing across SAP system landscapes
• Act as Release Delivery Manager to bring package of functionalities from scoping to delivery communicating with stakeholders, identifying risks and addressing them until resolution
• Continuous improvement of Release management ways of working from ideation to adoption, end to end without disruptions in the operation, and in cooperation with AMS, SAP experts and other stakeholders
• Ensure sustain, evolution and governance of Release supporting toolset such as Solution Manager, JIRA, Confluence with strong emphasis in innovation and adoption of emerging technologies such AI and automation
• Establish and maintain the right level of governance, leading the Global Release meeting, conducting quality gates, milestone reviews and Business Go/No-Go reviews
• Proactively report any releases risks and come with necessary mitigation plans
• Communicate with stakeholders to identify any issues or risks that may affect the release schedule or quality of the ERP platform
• Ensure the release notes are always set up and communicated with digital and business stakeholders as a part of release management process
• Perform post-release analysis to identify any issues that occurred during the release process and develop plans to prevent similar problems in future releases
• Organize recurrent alignment with major rollouts and live country projects (sharing changes to methodology, outages, etc..)

About applicant:

8+ years work experience as ERP Release Manager in complex landscape, preferably in a FMCG and/or FMCH context. Solid experience in SAP release management, with a deep understanding of SAP S4HANA architecture and its modules, integrated systems and with technical knowledge to handle technical dependencies and conflicts. Good understanding of S4HANA upgrade process and supporting toolset such SAP Readiness Check with at least one contribution to the delivery of a Major release with upgraded systems in scope. Contributed in the design and adoption of retrofit, freeze and downtime strategies. Hands on in related supporting tools such Jira, Solution Manager, Confluence, Service-now to support application lifecycle activities. Experience in Focused Build or SAP Cloud ALM is a plus. Familiar with SAP activate methodology is a plus. Solid understanding of project management methodologies, software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies and agile practices. Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities to work effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders. At ease with Microsoft Office tools, and in general with IS tools. Experience with multi-geography, multi-tier service design and management. Conceptual and analytical thinking – ability to extract, analyse, and document complex business and technical requirements or strategies.

Soft skills:

• Strong communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated conflict resolution & problem-solving skills in a global environment
• Strong appetite to learn and discover, entrepreneur mindset
• Adaptable and open to change
• Team player, service-oriented
• Analytical and synthetic, able to formalize solutions, good writing skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• With leadership attitude, autonomy and results driven
• Role model our 4 values: teamwork, integrity, respect, courage

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree (B.A.) or equivalent in Information Technology or Engineering.

Languages: Fluent spoken and written English.

Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over-The-Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally. Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self‑care as simple as it should be. For half a billion consumers worldwide – and counting. At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers. Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan. B Corp certified in multiple markets, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet.

Find out more about our mission at www.opella.com.