Release Manager in Gerrards Cross

We are ranked as the UK’s #1 construction specific software player and our mission is simple; to provide market leading end-to-end software solutions to the construction and construction like industries across the entire build life cycle.

If you are looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. Our teams are based in the UK, Europe, and India, working on products that are used on a global scale. We have a clear and defined road map to deliver over the next 3 years, which is centred around a large-scale digital transformation as well as continuing our growth and expansion.

We embrace diversity and equality and want our employees to be comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it improves every aspect of our business.

Purpose

We are seeking a proactive and strategic Release Manager to support the end-to-end product and software delivery process, ensuring smooth, predictable, and high-quality releases. This role is pivotal in aligning cross-functional teams from capacity planning through to release execution, and requires a strong command of agile delivery practices, data analytics, stakeholder management, and continuous improvement.

Reporting to the Vice President Product – Applications, the Release Manager will coordinate planning, execution, enablement, and communication activities across multiple teams and stakeholders to ensure successful and timely product and software releases.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Capacity & Roadmap Planning:

• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, and Delivery teams to define and validate quarterly and annual capacity plans.
• Support prioritization efforts by aligning team capacity with product roadmaps and business objectives.
• Use historical data and velocity trends to forecast delivery capabilities and highlight constraints.

Scalable Release Planning:

• Support Release planning sessions to synchronize efforts across multiple scrum teams and feature sets and securitise against release objectives.
• Develop detailed release calendars, interdependency maps, and milestone plans across products and platforms.
• Drive alignment between technical delivery plans and business readiness needs, including enablement timelines.

Data-Driven Delivery Monitoring:

• Design and maintain real-time dashboards to track progress across features, epics, sprints, and release trains.
• Monitor KPIs including burndown charts, defect leakage, test pass rates, and deployment success metrics.

Coordination and Stakeholder Communication:

• Facilitate cross-team scrums of scrums and dependency syncs.
• Communicate timelines, scope changes, risk status, and release health via transparent and structured reporting mechanisms.

Internal Readiness and Release Enablement:

• Partner with Go-To-Market, Sales, and Support teams to ensure enablement materials, training, and FAQs are delivered ahead of release.
• Lead Release Readiness Reviews, Business Go/No-Go assessments, and stakeholder sign-off processes.
• Coordinate early access programs, beta testing, and feedback loops to de-risk launches.
• Ensure comprehensive post-release reviews and retrospectives are conducted to capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvement.
• Own and continuously evolve the release governance framework, templates, and best practices.
• Collect feedback from delivery teams and stakeholders to optimize release cadence, tooling, and process efficiency.
• Managing executive-level reporting C-suite dashboards, release risk briefings.
• Acting as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders at the highest levels.

Key Skills:

• Proven work experience as a Release Manager or similar role in project management or PMO leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to plan and execute complex software releases involving cross-functional coordination.
• Deep knowledge of Jira, Confluence, Git, Aha, and associated product and engineering release solutions.
• Experience with project management software.
• Excellent knowledge of Product or Software Development Life Cycle PDLC or SDLC.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong problem-solving and risk management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in influencing and aligning stakeholders.
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

What you get from us?

If you\’re looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. We believe everyone has a vital role to play in our success. The organisation is fuelled by curiosity and is a place for people who beam with positivity and burn with ambition.

Our team is everything, so we’ll take good care of you. In fact, we give well-being the same priority as our other business goals. We’re strong advocates of work-life balance, offering hybrid working alongside the opportunity to work from modern, collaborative offices.

Our Values:

• We are United. As part of a team, we’re better together.
• We are Agile. Be the change, we’re on a journey.
• We are Trusted. Do the right thing, we own this.
• We are Driven. Get stuck in, we make it happen.

As a leader in employee engagement and people management, there are fantastic benefits and rewards. We strive, year on year, to achieve recognition as an award-winning workplace that employees love. We’ve selected just a few of the many benefits available below to show you how people are supported.

• 25 days annual leave plus public holidays, increasing with length of service
• Income protection and life assurance
• Access to an award-winning benefits platform

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