Strategic SAP Release & Governance Lead

Outokumpu Chrome Oy; Katowice; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Outokumpu Chrome Oy is seeking an experienced SAP Release Manager with development understanding to lead governance, planning, and execution of SAP releases across our business-critical SAP landscape. You will act as the primary gatekeeper for moving changes safely into production environments, ensuring deployments are thoroughly tested, approved, and aligned with business priorities.

You will work closely with SAP service managers, concept owners, development teams, functional experts, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Release Management, Change Management, Service Management, Delivery Management, or a related field.
• Strong experience managing complex release cycles within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Experience working with enterprise business systems and applications across multiple environments and technologies.
• Proven track record coordinating diverse stakeholders across business and IT functions.
• Solid understanding of change, release, and service management principles and industry best practices (e.g., ITIL).
• Knowledge of identity, access, and authorization management concepts.
• Understanding of software development lifecycles, deployment processes, and quality assurance practices.
• Strong communication, coordination, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and govern the release lifecycle, deployment calendar, and production rollout activities.
• Coordinate deployments, cutovers, and go-live activities across multiple environments.
• Manage release dependencies and align business, development, infrastructure, testing, and support teams.
• Ensure successful testing, production readiness, and quality standards before deployment.
• Identify and mitigate release risks, maintain contingency plans, and drive process improvements.
• Govern release-related processes, controls, and documentation using established change management practices and tools.
• Coordinate releases and deployment activities across complex enterprise system landscapes.
• Ensure compliance with audit, governance, security, and change management requirements.
• Coordinate the delivery and prioritization of access management and security-related activities.
• Promote development quality and ensure teams follow engineering standards and delivery processes.

Skills

Release Management

Change Management

Service Management

Delivery Management

ITIL

Tools

ITIL framework

Job description

Outokumpu Chrome Oy is seeking an experienced SAP Release Manager with development understanding to lead governance, planning, and execution of SAP releases across our business-critical SAP landscape. You will act as the primary gatekeeper for moving changes safely into production environments, ensuring deployments are thoroughly tested, approved, and aligned with business priorities.

You will work closely with SAP service managers, concept owners, development teams, functional experts, and