Senior Project Manager (For independent contractors)

Please note, this is a 9 month assignment for freelancers.

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for the governance and project management of initiatives within the Fintech Financial Systems.

The Senior Project Manager role is partnering with the various teams across the organisation to support, and proactively work with them, to facilitate the work occurring between them and the business units and centralized functions they support.

They help the teams to scope and plan the projects by helping to document the project goal, KPIs, roadmap and main deliverables.

The Senior Project Managers ensure that the projects allocated are managed in a consistent manner, whilst working with the 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.

The Senior Project Manager also helps the different teams to mitigate the project risks and dependencies to make sure there is progress towards the project's milestones.

First and foremost, the Senior Project Manager ensures the team's roadmaps/plans focus on agreed business priorities, dependencies and strategies – designed based on data and business needs, and deliver against the shared objectives & goals.

Delivery is a key focus area while ensuring stakeholders are managed and aligned through the delivery cycles.

Another focus area is being able to connect the dots while understanding the bigger picture and what needs to be achieved therefore it is critical to be hands on when solving dependencies and suggesting alternate solutions to resolve.

Responsabilities:

• Apply structured methodology to and lead project/change management activities

  
  

• Own the successful delivery of the end-to-end project lifecycle

  
  

• Lead independently low / medium complexity projects with global impact (cross-functional) driving them through execution, analysis, recommendation and implementation

  
  

• Apply change management processes and tools to create a strategy to support adoption of the changes required by a project or initiative.

  
  

• Engage and influence stakeholders at all levels inside and outside of Fintech: work collaboratively with business unit partners and corporate support teams to drive enterprise strategy execution and partner on segment or functional strategy projects

  
  

• Communicate project insights and recommendations across all stakeholders

  
  

• With limited supervision, identify, define and scope the opportunities

  
  

• Drive the Project scoping and Planning by helping to document the project goal, KPIs, roadmap and main deliverables

  
  

• Track and report progress; Creates clear planning documents together with involved departments

  
  

• Ensure a project closing and correct handover to Business as usual

  
  

• Ability to work and productively interact with different stakeholders up to Director level

Requirements:

• Bachelor degree

  
  

• 5 - 7 years project management experience

  
  

• Experience in working within a Finance or Fintech organisation

  
  

• Managing multiple projects across different locations

  
  

• Working closely with product and tech delivery teams

  
  

• Exposure to Enterprise Applications like ERP SAP / Finance Platforms, integration platforms like Mulesoft, SAP Activate delivery methodology