Release Manager - Global IBP

Overview

Role: Release Manager – Global IBP

We are looking for an experienced o9 IBP Release Manager to lead end-to-end release planning, governance, and execution across global and regional IBP implementations. The role will coordinate Product, Engineering, Data, Platform, Testing, Business and o9 teams to ensure releases are delivered in a controlled, predictable and business-ready manner.

The successful candidate will own the release lifecycle from scope and dependency alignment through SIT/UAT/regression testing, change governance, production deployment and hypercare, while proactively managing risks, conflicts and stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

Role Highlights:

• Develop and manage the global release strategy, roadmap, release calendar and deployment plans for o9/IBP solutions across multiple markets and regions.
• Own end-to-end release governance, including release scope, milestones, readiness criteria, dependencies, approvals.
• Coordinate with global and regional Product Owners, o9 teams, Engineering, Data, Platform, Testing and Business teams to drive successful releases.
• Manage release activities across development, SIT, UAT/regression and Production environments, ensuring environment and tenant readiness.
• Drive release readiness assessments, covering code/configuration readiness, testing status, data dependencies, defects, business validation and deployment prerequisites.
• Drive the IBP Code Merge Process, to maintain the unified code base across International region.
• Coordinate SIT, UAT, end-to-end and regression testing, ensuring critical issues are tracked and resolved before Production deployment.
• Govern Change Requests (CRs) and deployment activities, ensuring required approvals and change/release management controls are completed.
• Identify and proactively manage release risks, cross-product dependencies, environment conflicts, deployment constraints and schedule impacts.
• Facilitate Go/No-Go discussions and provide clear release status, risks, decisions and escalations to programme and senior leadership.
• Manage Production deployment coordination, rollback/contingency planning, post-deployment validation and hypercare.
• Drive continuous improvement of release management processes through automation, standardisation, release metrics, lessons learned and retrospectives.
• Maintain comprehensive release documentation including release plans, dependency trackers, deployment plans, risk logs, readiness dashboards and release communications.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• 9-13 years of overall experience, with substantial experience in Release Management, Product Management, Programme Delivery or large-scale technology implementations.

• Strong experience managing enterprise Supply Chain Planning / Integrated Business Planning (IBP) releases.
• Hands-on functional or delivery exposure to o9 Solutions; experience with SAP IBP and/or JDA is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of release lifecycle management, including SIT, UAT, regression testing, Production deployment and hypercare.
• Experience managing complex implementations involving multiple applications, markets, regions and interdependent teams.
• Good understanding of change management and release governance, including change approvals, deployment controls, risk assessment and rollback planning.
• Strong working knowledge of Agile/SAFe delivery practices and tools such as JIRA, Confluence and Azure DevOps.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent releases, competing priorities, dependencies and critical deployment timelines.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, negotiation and escalation-management skills.
• Ability to translate technical release information into concise business and leadership-level status reporting.
• Strong analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to risk management.
• Familiarity with controlled release processes such as CAB/change approval, deployment freeze windows, release readiness reviews and post-production validation.