Job Description

The I-ERP System of Delivery/Release Manager will own driving the program System of Delivery and the Release Management lifecycle which includes scheduling, coordinating and the management of releases across the enterprise within the I-ERP program. The System of Delivery/Release Manager responsibilities also include building the Release Plan, address/track release-wide interdependencies, and working closely with other release managers to create a view of all releases

Key Responsibilities

1. Develop Deployment Plan and Tracking deployment activities including constraints, dependencies and assumptions
2. Support the planning and execution of production go-live deployment activities
3. Support the Cutover and Integration teams to facilitate deployment plan review sessions and deployment kick-off sessions
4. Proactively identify release level implementation risks and mitigation plans
5. Prepare and report release status reports for program leadership team
   1. Coordinate activities across all workstreams and provide status reporting for the entire Release
6. Manage and Drive - Functionality deployment across releases to make sure all cross Product and Program dependencies are accounted during planning of releases, execution, testing and deployment
7. Manage and resolve day-to-day cross functional issues and risks, escalating to Program leadership team when necessary
8. Manage change control process for the release
9. Develop go live contingency/rollback and recovery/disaster plans working closely with Product Team leads
10. Coordinate business cutover related tasks
11. Manage the Micro Releases or Release On Demand Enhacements (Functionality, Deployment, Testing) with in the deployment plan
12. Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews
13. Monitor overall release capacity requirements by working with Product team leads
14. Support global change management processes
15. Lead PDO teams to obtain and maintain appropriate base camp levels

Must-have skills

1. 8+ years’ experience working in cross-functional and global teams
2. Release management experience and awareness of scaled agile methodology and ceremonies
3. Familiarity with Ford’s scaled agile project tracking tools (Jira, ALM)
4. Awareness of Product Driven Organization model following Agile methodology
5. Strong oral/written communication skills; ability to message at the right level depending on the audience
6. Demonstrated proactivity and sense of urgency Strong interpersonal skills to influence/motivate people who are not direct reports;
7. Ability to perform in adverse/tight timeline situations
8. Demonstrated Quick thinking, positive and can-do attitude

Nice-to have skills

1. Understanding the Purchasing and Finance functional area and applications is a plus
2. PowerBI knowledge
3. Understanding of SAP S4 and Ariba tools and product integration dependencies
4. Purchasing and Finance business processes acumen
5. Vendor and System Integrator management experience