SAP Release Manager

About the role

The SAP Release Manager is responsible for end‑to‑end planning, governance, and operational control of all SAP environments across development, testing, and production. This role ensures projects, enhancements, and releases proceed predictably, safely, and without conflict.

Key responsibilities

• Own overall SAP release and environment strategy, defining usage rules, refresh policies, access standards and naming conventions.
• Plan, schedule and control build, testing and deployment of SAP releases while protecting existing service stability.
• Manage environment usage across projects, AMS enhancements, defect fixes, regression cycles, maintenance and technical upgrades.
• Maintain a single integrated environment calendar covering releases, testing windows, freezes and maintenance periods.
• Coordinate with SAP Basis teams to monitor system performance, plan kernel updates, HANA tuning and job scheduling.
• Drive preventive maintenance, SAP Notes monitoring and regular health checks.

Required profile

• 10‑12 years of SAP Release Management experience.
• Working knowledge of SAP Basis/BTP and SAP release and environment management.
• Fluent English; French is a plus.

Required skills

• SAP Release Management
• SAP Basis
• SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)
• S/4HANA