Strategic PMO Project Manager

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Location: Spain - Mallorca

Time Type: Full time

Posted on: Posted 4 Days Ago

Job Requisition ID: R-00021104

HBX Group is the world’s leading technology partner, connecting and empowering the world of travel. We’re game-changers, disruptors, and the people who bring together local and global brands in accommodation, transport, activities, and payments through our network of 300,000 hotels worldwide, 60,000 hard-to-reach high-value clients such as tour operators, travel agents, and loyalty schemes across 140 source markets. We are tech-driven, with a customer-first philosophy, and commercial teams whose knowledge and relationships on the ground are second to none. Our people, Team HBX Group, are the beating heart of the company who we encourage to ‘move fast, dream big and make the difference’ every day. We believe that it is tech + data + people that truly sets us apart in the market, alongside our ‘global approach, local touch’ mentality. We’re headquartered in Palma, Mallorca and employ around 3,500 people worldwide.

Reporting to the Strategic PMO, this role can be remotely based in Spain but may require in-person attendance from time to time to support project progress and outcomes.

The project manager is responsible for ensuring project delivery. The individual leads and manages the project team, with authority and responsibility from the project sponsor, to run the project on a day-to-day basis.

The project manager plays a crucial role between the project and the relevant business area and stakeholders, collaborating with senior management to define project goals, develop strategic plans, and implement solutions that drive the strategic objectives. This is important for communicating and encouraging transformation and change with the delivery of new capabilities from the project.

The role is responsible for applying project excellence guidance and best practices to maximize the optimization and efficiency of project delivery and the mitigation of identified risks. It’s responsible for ensuring business readiness to exploit the new capabilities provided as crucial to project success and benefits realization.

Main responsibilities include:

• Establishing project milestones and outcomes according to the strategic objectives.
• Planning project lifecycle involving deadlines, milestones, and processes and reporting status.
• Developing or monitoring budgets and project execution.
• Identifying, quantifying, reporting, and resolving any potential risks impacting project delivery.
• Managing a wide set of stakeholders through expertise and influence.

The project manager, operating within agreed reporting structures, is responsible for:

• Designing and applying appropriate project management standards to assigned projects.
• Managing the production of the required deliverables.
• Planning and monitoring all assigned projects.
• Preparing and maintaining project, milestone, and exception plans as required.
• Defining governance, supporting, and administering any steering groups, working committees, forums, or stakeholder groups.
• Supporting project status communication in the broader organization.
• Managing project risks, including the development of mitigation and contingency plans.
• Liaising with program/product management to ensure that work is neither overlooked nor duplicated.
• Monitoring overall progress and use of resources, initiating corrective action where necessary.
• Applying change control processes.
• Reporting through agreed lines on project progress through key highlight reports and end-state assessments.
• Liaising with appointed project assurance representatives to ensure the overall direction and integrity of the project.
• Maintaining an awareness of potential interdependencies with other projects and their impact.
• Identifying and obtaining support and advice required for the management, planning, and control of the project.
• Managing general project administration, including maintaining a documented audit trail of decisions, minutes, and pertinent project materials.

Skills:

• Applying a robust project management approach to the specific requirements of the project.
• Establishing good working relationships with the Project Sponsor or Owner.
• Early escalation of issues and/or risks with mitigation options.
• Directing, managing, and motivating a project team (where applicable).
• Developing and maintaining an agreed project plan and detailed stage/milestone plans.
• Understanding and applying business case and risk management processes.
• Tailoring expert knowledge to meet specific circumstances.
• Planning and managing the deployment of physical and financial resources to meet project milestones.
• Building and sustaining effective communications with other roles involved in the project.
• Applying quality management principles and processes.
• Strong and clear communication both written and oral.
• Advanced MS Office skills in controlling, reporting, and general management of projects.

Experience:

• Tangible and evidential experience in delivering (leading and directing) cross-functional projects is a core requirement.
• Ability to direct, influence, and control stakeholders and teams to achieve planned milestones.
• Mature self-starter attitude with strong self-governance.
• Effective communication skills to clearly articulate status and outcomes of assigned projects.
• Comfort with uncertainty that not all known variables are quantified at project commencement.
• Cost control to review budgets, manage expenses, and negotiate costs throughout a project.
• Strong ability to prioritize personal tasks as well as others’ tasks within a project.
• Problem-solving ability to find solutions and overcome challenges that may impact a project.
• Data analysis skills to quantify performance and project results as well as analyze financial information such as budgets, expenditures, and return-on-investment.
• Established people leadership skills including empathy with others in the project.

Qualifications:

• Certification in Project Management (PMP) is desirable.
• Strong competency in MS Office tools required.

You will have the opportunity to work for a company that is going through significant change in becoming the world’s leading travel services provider. We are looking for people that are ready to ride the wave in this exciting journey.

As well as an attractive benefits package, you will be able to work:

• Within an innovative, engaging, and multicultural environment.
• Have the opportunity to build strong and lasting business relationships and friendships from around the world.
• Have the opportunity to develop your career locally or within one of our beautiful working locations across the globe.

Now more than ever, ESG is critical to our business, and we don’t just talk about it; we put our words into action.

We’ve joined Amazon and The Climate Pledge to become net zero carbon by 2040, a decade ahead of the Paris Climate Agreement.

We’ve been certified as carbon neutral for four years in a row.

We’re committed to protecting the environment in all the places we work.

We support the economic and social development of our regions through our Corporate Volunteering Programme.

We respect human rights and work hard to make sure we don’t commit any violations.