IT Program Release Manager

Location: India

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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. 

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**A new healthcare company with a rich history.** With more than 70 years of delivering healthcare innovations, we continue to move the industry forward by helping to solve our customers’ biggest challenges.

**20,000+ employees worldwide.** Solventum relies on the courage and the boundless insights of professionals worldwide to achieve exceptional results for our customers and those who rely on them. Healthcare that leads with heart and humility starts with listening and never finishes, only evolves. As long as healthcare challenges remain unsolved, we will be here, united by empathy and a relentless belief that countless lives are improved through our work.

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