Travelopia is headquartered in the UK and is one of the world's leading specialist travel groups providing customers with unique travel experiences. This includes adventure travel, safaris, private jet and polar expeditions, tailor-made luxury holidays, yacht, and river boat charter holidays, educational and sporting based school trips, corporate hospitality and sporting event fan travel.
The roleWe are looking for a Project Manager to join our Technology Team to support a large finance transformation programme. We are in the middle of a multi-year SAP4HANA rollout across our brands, and require a project manager to play a leading role within the programme.
As a Project Manager, you will handle both internal technical teams and 3rd party suppliers, as well as handling the change within the business. You will enable the teams to self-organise, remove impediments, and develop an environment for impactful team dynamics, continuous delivery, and continuous improvement.
You will work closely with collaborators to translate business outcomes into manageable deliveries - handle budgets and build all project artifacts needed to optimally deliver the business outcomes required.
Operating across the globe including Europe, Australia, North America and Canada, Travelopia is passionate about being the best and we pride ourselves on the outstanding and diverse range of holiday experiences we offer our customers. Our combined businesses are the world's largest provider of specialist and experiential travel with a range of unique experiences, from private jets, polar expeditions, sailing, ski holidays and more.
What you'll be doing:As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for…
Own delivery for projects including technical and business tasks and outcomes. Work with Third Party Suppliers, Business Analysts, and Product Owners – to drive the right outcomes from your teamPartner with our businesses, to identify their problems and required outcomes - ensuring clear KPI's and benefit realisation planning is in place, aligned to the business outcomesFocus on delivering value early – fail fast if vital – but always strive to deliver value over excessive debating of options!Effectively identify and mitigate risks and issues. Identify associated opportunities, actions, and decisions to ensure project delivery is timely with quality.Collaborate with third party consultants, technical and business teams to implement, measure, and learn via metrics and retrospectives.Work closely with key collaborators to implement the changes, giving due time and attention to the importance of business change managementDevelop budgets, control spend and lead vendor relationships, and prepare status updates as requiredUnderstand business requirements to optimally identify roadblocks and solutions. Ability to know when to advance issues to the right team and/or person.Work collaboratively and use Agile standard methodologies to support backlog refinement, sprint planning, and long-term release planning.Employees must be aware of the responsibility placed on them to maintain and balanced and safe working environment for both staff and visitorsWhat we are looking for:A bias for action – roll your sleeves up and get things done!Project leadership experience on concurrent mid to large-scale projects.Experience rolling out SaaS solutions, as well as product led development. Experience of a finance system / ERP rollout would be effectiveExperience with the Agile methodology, working with squads, product owners and engineering leads across tech functions.Using metrics to drive improvements in processes.Experience leading projects across international time zones in a completely virtual environment.Good commercial and decision-making skills, with experience of budget control within a CAPEX environment.Passionate about solving business problems through the power of technology.Written and verbal communication skills including creation and delivery of effective presentations.Influencing skills, including experience working within a larger matrixed organization.Analytical, relationship building, and problem-solving abilities, and collaborate across team boundaries.Communicates optimally with team members, customers, and levels of management.Join us and in return you'll be rewarded with:Wider scope for learning, working with teams across the globeCareer progression opportunitiesWe believe people are happier and perform best when they are able to be their true self, and that diverse teams deliver better results.
Together we will cultivate a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment, where everyone can flourish. We are committed to inspiring change through increasing awareness of, and counteracting, unconscious bias; building an inclusive culture, and accepting diversity in all its dimensions
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