What are the responsibilities and job description for the SAP Release & Change Manager position at ITECS?
Role: SAP Release & Change Manager
Location: Maple Grove, MN (no remote)
Job Description:
Dedicated SAP-MD Release & Change Manager responsible for release governance, change approvals, transport management, deployment readiness, and cross-functional coordination to ensure controlled and successful project and production releases.
Responsibilities:
- Own and manage the SAP-MD release calendar across maintenance, enhancement, and project releases.
- Facilitate release planning, release readiness, and go/no-go meetings.
- Review, govern, and approve SAP-MD change requests and deployment activities.
- Perform transport review and ensure compliance with release and change management processes.
- Coordinate transport migrations across Development, PRT, QA, and Production environments.
- Partner closely with SAP Basis, Infrastructure, Security, Validation, and Project teams to ensure deployment readiness.
- Manage maintenance releases, emergency changes, and project deployment schedules.
- Lead cutover planning, implementation coordination, and post-release validation activities.
- Track release risks, dependencies, conflicts, and mitigation actions.
- Provide release status reporting, deployment metrics, and governance updates to SAP-MD leadership.