RESPONSIBILITIES:

Kforce has a client seeking a SAP Release Manager in Florham, New Jersey (NJ). The SAP Release Manager will be responsible for the full lifecycle of SAP Releases. This includes coordinating release schedules with other application teams, organizing and moving transports, ensure all change control requirements have been met.

Main areas of responsibility:

• Maintain and distribute the SAP release calendar
• Release transports for project and maintenance releases
• Liaison with basis and project teams to refresh test systems
• Track activities in all SAP instances
• Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time and within budget, and that they meet or exceed expectations
• Coordinate release content and effort based on the service request backlog, pending service requests, third party applications, or operating system updates
• Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations
• Conduct release readiness reviews, milestone reviews, and business go/no-go reviews
• Produce deployment, run books and implementation plans
• Weekly release reporting
• Communicate release details and schedules to the business as required
• Negotiate, plan and manage all release activities
• Work with SAP project team members to understand impacts of transports
• Maintains the release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors.
• Continually work towards making improvements in the release process
• Lead and co-ordinate the go-live activities including the execution of the deployment plans and checklists