Manhattan Active WMS Release Management Resource

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience in release management, deployment management, change management, or enterprise application delivery.
• Experience coordinating complex releases involving multiple applications or integrations.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, SIT, UAT, regression testing, and production deployment.
• Experience managing cutover plans, dependencies, release readiness, and go/no-go decisions.
• Strong communication and organizational skills. -Manhattan Active WMS or comparable enterprise WMS experience. -Experience with WMS implementations, warehouse go-lives, or distribution center deployments. -Experience coordinating releases involving ERP/host systems, APIs, WCS/MHE, TMS, or other warehouse applications. -Jira, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, or similar release/change-management experience.

Job Description

A client of Insight Global is seeking a Manhattan Active WMS Release Management Resource to coordinate and manage the movement of Manhattan Active enhancements, integrations, configuration changes, fixes, and releases into production.

This person is essentially responsible for ensuring that the right changes move into production at the right time, with the right testing, approvals, communication, documentation, contingency planning, and operational readiness.

The Manhattan material you provided specifically includes new-release testing, regression testing, pre-deployment activities, production rollouts, mock go-live/go-live activities, data validation, and hypercare support. ​​

Key Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the Manhattan Active release calendar and deployment schedule.
• Coordinate releases across functional, technical, integration, testing, infrastructure, training, and business teams.
• Define release scope and confirm which enhancements, fixes, integrations, and configuration changes are included.
• Track dependencies and ensure required activities are completed prior to deployment.
• Coordinate SIT, UAT, regression-testing, and business sign-off requirements.
• Conduct release-readiness checkpoints and go/no-go meetings.
• Confirm required documentation, approvals, testing evidence, training, communications, and support plans are complete.
• Develop and maintain deployment and cutover plans.
• Coordinate mock cutovers and production deployments.
• Confirm rollback/backout and contingency plans are established for higher-risk changes.
• Communicate planned downtime, release scope, deployment timing, risks, and expected operational impacts.
• Coordinate production validation following deployment.
• Support go-live and hypercare, ensuring defects and production issues are properly triaged.
• Facilitate post-release reviews and document lessons learned.
• Identify opportunities to continually improve release-management processes.