SAP Release Lead - Americas

29 Apr 2024

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Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.

You oversee the lifecycle of diverse, interdependent, cross-functional, multiple projects through a set of practices and a release plan. This includes disparate scope, resource dependencies, cross-project alignment, deployment planning, release execution and transparent reporting of release results for SAP and SAP-Integrated projects.

How you will contribute

You will oversee the operational responsibilities required to deliver projects and software releases following MDLZ best practices in Project governance and release governance, including project scope, review and approval, release-level RAID management, TG approvals, release governance boards and final preparation for project and release go-lives. In this role, you will conduct alignment sessions with senior leaders and other stakeholders to confirm that release schedules are aligned to business goals and then communicate the release roadmap to broader internal and external stakeholders. You will use your 8-12 years of project delivery and governance experience in software delivery lifecycle of SAP projects to influence leadership and projects.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in :
  • End-to-end business and functional knowledge
  • Operations (infrastructure and technical aspects of SAP systems and middleware platforms)
  • Communicating effectively
  • Leadership and problem-solving with fluency in navigating through a complex/matrix organization
  • Strategic thinking

More about this role

What you need to know about this position:

- '• Strong cross-functional SAP experience

Drives the operational responsibilities in delivering Projects / Releases following TG Methodology and Release Governance - including project scope review / approval, Release level RAID managment, TG approvals, Release Governance Boards, final preparation for Release/Project go-lives).- Conducts alignment sessions with senior leadership and key stakeholders to confirm release schedules are aligned to business goals and the communicate the Release Roadmap to broader stakeholders (internal and external).- Influences leadership and project team members using key insights and recommendations to protect and manage the integrity of MDLZ Application landscape.- Inform senior management of enterprise-wide exposure to release risk and effectively mitigate it.- Leadership and escalation point for the resolution of Cross-functional integration issues across the Project team/s.- Establish and execute consistent release management processes and facilitate cross-department coordination of release core services.- Leads the Planning with core services teams like ADF, Testing, Security, Hosting/Infrastructure/Landscape teams and Application support teams for resource planning and availability to deliver against key project & release milestones.- Own the planning and execution of Release cutover plan by facilitating the inputs and support from project leads, technical teams including the strategic partners.- Leads the Golive strategy & Hyper-care process with active collaboration with Business/IBS Stakeholders including strategic partners.- Leads the planning, business alignment and communication for Release driven planned Applications outages.- On-boarding process for external project partners with best in class Release methodologies in Application platform landscape design, Release processes and the use of standard tools to deliver the Releases.- Provide governance to the projects in the releases to ensure adherence to SOX compliance and deliver the projects accordingly.

What extra ingredients you will bring:

Education / Certifications:

Bachelors or Masters in Computing

Job specific requirements:

'• Strong cross-functional SAP experience• Multi-year experience in a program, project or integration manager position• Strong end-to-end business knowledge• Excellent communication skills• Strong leadership skills in dynamic, cross-functional roles• Must be comfortable in leadership roles that require to navigate a complex/matrix organization• Balances proven ability to execute with strategic thinking

Travel requirements:

Work schedule:

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

The United States is the largest market in the Mondelz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, weproduce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brands-including Oreo and Chips Ahoy! cookies, Ritz, Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers, and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products -are close at hand for our consumers across the country.

Mondelz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact for assistance.

Where permitted by applicable law, new hires are required to be fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment by their date of hire, unless they are granted a medical,religious,or other accommodation as required by law. You may review the Mondelz COVID vaccination policy by visiting the US careers website athttps://www.mondelezinternational.com/United-States.ThisCOVID-19 vaccine mandate does not apply to severalU.S. statesthat do not permit certain vaccination mandates,including, but not limited to Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Montana, North Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia.

Job Type

Regular

Software & Applications

Technology & Digital

  • ID: #39774515
  • State: New Jersey Easthanover 07936 Easthanover USA
  • City: Easthanover
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-04-29
  • Deadline: 2022-06-27
  • Category: Security