IT Program Release Manager

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Job Description

IT Program Release Manager

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

Release management provides the planning, coordination, and governance needed to manage technology releases in a structured and predictable way, aligning timelines, dependencies, stakeholders, risks, and readiness activities through key milestones such as cutover and deployment

As an IT Program Release Manager , you will make an impact by

• Owning and maintaining the integrated IT release calendar , providing visibility to planned production releases, key milestones, dependencies, potential conflicts, and freeze periods.

• Driving release readiness and governance , establishing appropriate checkpoints and controls to help ensure the correct, approved code and release scope are promoted to production.

• Facilitating release readiness and go/no-go discussions , ensuring decision-makers have clear visibility into release scope, readiness, outstanding risks, issues, dependencies, approvals, and actions required before deployment.

• Coordinating cross-team dependencies and release sequencing , proactively identifying potential conflicts, technology dependencies, resource constraints, and execution risks and driving them toward resolution.

• Providing clear release visibility and communications to IT stakeholders and leadership, including upcoming releases, readiness, schedule changes, risks, issues, decisions, and escalation needs.

• Identifying opportunities to strengthen release management practices by recommending practical improvements to release planning, governance, controls, and ways of working

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires at a minimum the following qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline and 7–10 years of experience in IT release management, project management, IT consulting, PMO, IT transformation, or related information technology roles

OR

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline and 5+ years of experience in IT release management, project management, IT consulting, PMO, IT transformation, or related information technology roles

In addition to the above requirements, the following are also required

• Demonstrated experience in enterprise IT release management involving multiple technology teams, applications, platforms, or stakeholder groups.

• Strong experience with release planning and coordination , including release calendars, dependencies, readiness tracking, release freeze periods, and stakeholder communications.

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate across multiple technology teams , manage interdependencies and competing priorities, and drive delivery issues toward resolution.

• Project management experience with knowledge of planning, scope, schedules, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and delivery outcomes.

• Hands-on experience with project, release, reporting, and collaboration tools such as Smartsheet, Jira, Power BI, and Microsoft Office Suite.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include

• Relevant professional certification such as PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, SAFe, ITIL, Lean Six Sigma, or a related project, release, or delivery management certification.

• Experience supporting enterprise technology releases across multiple applications, platforms, infrastructure components, or IT functions.

• Experience with production release governance , deployment readiness, release communications, and post-release reviews.

• Ability to engage and influence IT and business stakeholders , facilitate structured discussions, create alignment, and support timely decisions without direct authority.

• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills , with the ability to assess risks, evaluate trade-offs, anticipate downstream impacts, and recommend practical actions.

Work location

• Bengaluru (Hybrid)

Domestic Travel

May include up to 20%

Supporting Your Well-being  

Solventum offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, Solventum regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope. 

Diversity & Inclusion

(*) We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation , age, civil status, disability, family status, or membership of the travelling community.

Solventum is committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity and professionalism in our recruitment process. Applicants must remain alert to fraudulent job postings and recruitment schemes that falsely claim to represent Solventum an