About the role & responsibilities:
The SAP Release Manager is responsible for planning, managing, coordinating, and continuously optimizing all SAP-related release activities within a group-wide digitalization and transformation program and productive solutions. The focus is on a heterogeneous SAP landscape comprising more than 10 SAP and SAP S/4HANA systems.
This role ensures that changes, transports, releases, hotfixes, and milestone rollouts are implemented in the production environments in a controlled,transparent, auditable, and low-risk manner. To this end, the position holder works closely with SAP Basis, SAP Solution Manager/ChaRM experts, ChangeManagement, Release Management, Test Management, Program Management, and the respective system and product owners.
Planning, execution, and monitoring of release cycles across multiple SAP and S/4HANA systems (including end-to-end management of releases, rollouts,and hotfixes)
Responsibilities:
- Regular coordination, creation, and maintenance of an integrated release roadmap (including transport planning)
- Collaboration in cutover-,



test-, deployment- and go-live phases
- Monitoring release readiness based on defined quality and approval criteria
- Technical management and responsibility for compliance with SAP change and release processes
- Management and monitoring of transport landscapes (sequences, dependencies, resolution of transport conflicts)
- Preparing SAP topics and providing technical support to the Change Advisory Board (CAB)
- Supporting program and management committees in release decisions
- Escalation management for risks, schedule deviations, or quality issues
- Transparent communication with various program and service roles (including management communication, status reports, and decision-makingdocumentation)
- Optimizing existing SAP change and release processes (including the relevant toolchains, such as Jira and Solman)
- Supporting the further development of the future ALM strategy

Expertis

📌 SAP Release Manager (España)
🏢 Randstad
📍 España