Senior Project and Release Manager

The role

This person will lead the delivery of complex digital and eCommerce projects and provide release management leadership. They will manage project scope, timelines, and budgets while overseeing release planning and governance across multiple environments.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex projects and programmes using Agile, Hybrid or Waterfall methodologies.
• Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, resources, risks and dependencies.
• Build strong relationships with clients, stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Provide clear reporting on project performance, milestones and delivery risks.
• Own release planning, scheduling and governance across multiple environments.
• Coordinate deployments and ensure release readiness across business and technical teams.
• Manage release risks, dependencies and communications.
• Collaborate with Development, QA, DevOps and Infrastructure teams to support efficient and reliable releases.
• Drive continuous improvement in delivery, release and deployment processes.
• Support post-release reviews and implementation of lessons learned.

Required qualifications

• Proven experience managing software delivery projects within Agile environments.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and release management practices.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes and release governance.
• Ability to engage confidently with technical teams on topics such as environments, branching strategies, deployments and release risk.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and leadership skills.
• Strong planning, organisational and financial management capabilities.
• Experience within digital and eCommerce environments is essential.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work with exciting brands around the world
• Prioritised career development
• Help to grow your skills

About the company

WPP Enterprise Solutions designs, builds, and operates growth systems for competitive businesses. VML, part of WPP, supports WPP Enterprise Solutions by helping brands activate transformation through creativity and experience.