Release Manager

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VML Enterprise Solutions

New Delhi, Delhi, India

On-site

Posted April 20, 2026

Job Description

Who We Are

VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

The opportunity:

Overview

An experienced Release Manager with 3+ years of DevOps related release management, who leads teams to follow best practices in development standards and coding reviews. You have an enthusiasm for learning new skills and initiative to deliver the best outcomes for our clients.

You will be primarily responsible the management and protection of releases through, where appropriate, Build/Develop, QA, UAT, Pre-Prod and Production environments for Salesforce Commerce Cloud

Responsibilities

Negotiating, planning, and managing all release activities.
Analysing risks and resolving issues that affect release scope, schedule, and quality.
Working cohesively with external partners, suppliers, and product owners.
Develop common strategies for release governance across multiple systems
Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required.
Act as guardian to uphold the integrity of the branching strategy and ensure processes are optimised to enable frequent and smooth releases
Know and understand impacts of branches and code merges in the repositories used by the dev teams.
Work with third party managed-hosting providers to increase automated processes end-to-end
Work with the development teams.
Coach and help automate release processes.
Inform senior management of enterprise-wide exposure to release risk and effectively mitigate it
Create, track, and maintain a published release and deployment calendar.
Know the tech stack of the development process so you can participate and discuss with the development teams the challenges of the full delivery workflow. A core background in eCommerce technologies is a must.
Maintain release documentation and manage key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.
Work with Infrastructure teams to improve a process, pass awareness of potential problems risks and oversee that the process is fit for the Release process needs.
Work closely with Project Management to ensure the efficiency of the delivery of Programmes and Projects (Control, Plan, Measure, Predict and React).