Role description:
Within the CML family, we’re looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead several key flagship AI projects. As a Senior Project Manager, you will be accountable for providing assurance that projects within CML are managed & organized in a consistent manner, whilst working with the different business units & central functions within Booking.com to build engagement and where needed governance over decisions needed for work to be signed off. In some cases, the role requires dealing with external vendors and managing external stakeholders. You will structure, design, plan, coordinate, and enable individual teams/departments to execute, while keeping the overall objectives & success in sight. We seek a strong stakeholder manager who will take full ownership and accountability for projects which are strategic to the company.
Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:
Own the successful delivery of the end-to-end project lifecycle. Starting from ideation till the closure of the project.
With limited supervision, lead medium/high complexity projects with global impact (cross-functional) driving them through execution, analysis, recommendation and implementation
Manage project Actions, Risks, Issues and Dependencies, including appropriate critical issues and anticipates bottlenecks while balancing business needs with technical constraints
Develop and run a resource scheduling process that enables prioritization and capacity planning to be realized for the different phases of projects/initiatives such as of Scoping, Delivery, Testing, Change & Learning and Knowledge Management
Engage and influence stakeholders inside and if required outside of the organization: work collaboratively with business unit partners and corporate support teams to drive enterprise strategy execution and partner on segment or functional strategy projects
Interacts with project sponsors, project stakeholders and multiple business and technical teams to define and document requirements, key design decisions.
Contribute to the Project scoping and Planning by helping to document the project goal, OKRs, roadmap and main deliverables.
Track and report progress; Creates clear planning documents together with involved departments
Qualifications & Skills:
5 years solid experience as a project manager role, with a consistent record of successfully project managing and delivering projects within Machine Learning/AI (MUST)
Previous experience working within R&D, specifically with product teams (MUST)
Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships (both within a team and with wider stakeholders) with ability to work effectively and influence up to Director level
Working experience and managing projects through Jira and confluence
Ability to lead multiple low /medium complexity projects or portfolio of projects
Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations
Strong stakeholders management skills, mostly technical stakeholders
Good business acumen and understanding of organizational issues, challenges & dependencies
Organized with a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics based on various situations
Strong problem solving and root cause identification skills
Effectively communicate in small/medium groups; Strong influencer in 1:1 and small groups
PMP or Agile Project Management or equivalent certification is preferred.
Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive , as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:
Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave
Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)
Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit
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