Description
SAP BW/BO Release Manager - Portugal - 6 months+
My client currently has an urgent 6 month contract opportunity (with possibility of 6 month extension) for an SAP BW/BO Release Manager to be based in Portugal.
The chosen candidate will be need to have immediate availability as well as experience relevant to the job specification detailed below:
Scope of the role:
You will join a team of IT professionals, as external consultant, involved in solution delivery and maintenance activities to the IT landscape of the clients company
You will manage all aspects of the end to end IT landscape process across international teams with a traversal scope.
Main tasks and responsibilities:
- Lead all aspects of the end to end IT Landscape management process
- In close coordination with US and EU stakeholders, plan release calendars (content, frozen periods)
- Inform the Service & Release Managers of risks and issues that may impact the release schedule or quality, and provide management reports on release progress
- Comply with the Clients Internal Financial Controls ensuring the Quality of the delivery
- Guarantee the updates and maintenance of release management documentation
- Chair the Change Board making sure that consumption risks are controlled and highlighted
- Evaluate dependencies between ongoing and planned changes in term of timings and scope
- Participate on the weekly Build Committees making sure BAU and Project team are aligned and dependencies and risks are identified
- Contribute to the RM FLYER operational maintenance activities plan for the different applications in scope and all the landscape environments (US and EU)
- Execute emergency processes for deliveries into production with a high level of priority
- Organize functional reviews and approvals of each releases content
- Share Release Management information with relevant stakeholders and feed global RM calendar.
Professional and technical skills:
Mandatory:
- Understanding of SAP ECC/BW/BO framework and transport management
- Reporting: ability to prepare a Management presentation for the scope of activity
- Ability to coordinate teams, lead meetings, assign and follow tasks to be performed
- Experience in complex cross-system environments
- Excelent communication skills
- Ability to take the ownership of problems and issues and manage to resolution
- Ability to work effectively with different countries and nationalities
Nice to have:
- Project management skills
- Testing ability: to set-up Testing practices and identify improvement actions
- Understanding Insurance/Accounting principles