Senior Principal Consultant, SAP Release Manager

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Inviting applications for the role of Senior Principal Consultant SAP Release Manager

Responsibilities:
Strategic Release Planning & Management: Develop and maintain the overall SAP release roadmap integrating various project timelines scope and resource requirements to ensure alignment with business objectives.
Release Coordination & Scheduling: Oversee the end-to-end release process including planning scheduling coordinating and managing all SAP releases across development quality assurance and production environments.
Risk Management & Mitigation: Identify assess and manage risks associated with SAP releases developing contingency plans and ensuring timely resolution of issues to minimize impact on business operations.
Change & Incident Management Integration: Collaborate closely with Change Management and Incident Management teams to ensure that all SAP changes are properly documented approved and integrated into the release schedule and that any incidents are addressed swiftly.
Environment Management: Ensure the availability and stability of all SAP environments (development test production) required for successful release execution including managing refreshes and system copies.
Tooling & Process Improvement: Drive the adoption and optimization of release management tools and processes (e.g. Charm SolMan) to enhance efficiency automation and traceability of all release activities.
Stakeholder Communication: Act as the primary communication hub for all release-related activities providing regular updates status reports and escalation points to senior management and relevant stakeholders.
Team Leadership & Mentoring: Guide and mentor junior release managers or team members fostering best practices in release management and ensuring adherence to organizational standards.
Compliance & Governance: Ensure all SAP releases adhere to internal policies regulatory requirements and audit standards maintaining comprehensive documentation for all release artifacts.
Post-Release Review & Optimization: Conduct post-release reviews to evaluate release performance identify lessons learned and implement continuous improvement initiatives to refine future release processes.
Continuous Improvement: Conduct post-release reviews (retrospectives) track KPIs (success rates defect rates) and optimize automation tools like SAP Solution Manager ChaRM.

Qualifications we seek in you!
Minimum Qualifications
Graduation: E MBA/MCA

Preferred Qualifications/skills
Extensive experience in large-scale ECC to S/4HANA transitions and cutover management.
Expert knowledge of SAP Solution Manager (ChaRM) SAP Cloud ALM ServiceNow and Jira.
Must possess excellent writing speaking analytical project management organizational teamwork and customer service skills that will assist them in identifying solutions to sophisticated security problems
Possess good verbal and written communication skills.

Why join Genpact
Lead AI-first transformation Build and scale AI solutions that redefine industries
Make an impact Drive change for global enterprises and solve business challenges that matter
Accelerate your careerGain hands-on experience world-class training mentorship and AI certifications to advance your skills
Grow with the best Learn from top engineers data scientists and AI experts in a dynamic fast-moving workplace
Committed to ethical AI Work in an environment where governance transparency and security are at the core of everything we build
Thrive in a values-driven culture Our courage curiosity and incisiveness - built on a foundation of integrity and inclusion - allow your ideas to fuel progress
Come join the 140000 coders tech shapers and growth makers at Genpact and take your career in the only direction that matters: Up.
Lets build tomorrow together.

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