Release Manager

About You Are you an experienced delivery or release professional with a proven track record of coordinating complex releases across multiple teams and stakeholders? Do you excel at bringing people together, managing competing priorities and ensuring successful outcomes in fast-paced environments? Are you are a strong communicator with excellent organisational skills, a proactive approach to risk management and the confidence to challenge when needed? Most importantly, can you influence without authority, maintain control of multiple moving parts and drive releases through to successful completion while balancing quality, risk and delivery timelines? The role As Release Manager, you will be responsible for coordinating the successful delivery of software releases to our US customer base. Working across Technology, Infrastructure, Data and Professional Services teams you will ensure releases are planned, governed and executed effectively, with clear communication and stakeholder alignment throughout. This is a highly collaborative role focused on delivery coordination, risk management and release governance rather than hands-on technical implementation. You'll play a key role in driving release readiness, managing dependencies, mitigating risks and continuously improving our release management processes. About us Heywood combines a passion for software with Agile methodologies to create modern software and data solutions and services for businesses, pension providers and third parties that help transform how their members and customers manage their lifelong financial journeys. Working for an expanding established market leader, you will have a real voice to influence our evolution. Continued learning and progression is ingrained in our daily life, encouraged through a variety of forums from e-learning subscriptions and a down-tools day (“Hive Day”) and communities of practice for learning and experimentation. Our open culture encourages wide participation and innovation. We also reward our hard work through regular socials, organised by our people. Socials events include fiercely competitive bake-offs, Pride month office parties, sporting events, games nights and much more! We are committed to a hybrid working model, combining remote and office-based working. Discover more at: https://heywood.com/vacancies EDI statement Legal stuff https://www.heywood.co.uk/privacy-notices#jobapplicantprivacynotice