IT Program Release Manager

At Solventum, we improve lives by helping healthcare professionals do their best work. Join a team using innovation and insight to make a real impact on the future of healthcare. All roles listed are with Solventum, and we’re committed to protecting your personal information—learn more in our Privacy Policy                  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: