Lead Project Manager

3 Months ago • 5-7 Years • Project Management

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Lead Project Manager, you will oversee and manage large to complex projects related to major client implementations. Your responsibilities include managing issues, risks, and change requests to ensure timely and successful project delivery with best-in-class quality. You will be highly visible to clients and will interface with multiple internal teams to effectively coordinate delivery. This involves understanding project management methodologies, planning schedules and budgets, and supporting change management processes. You'll also need to work closely with customer support teams and various operational verticals, collaborating with clients and account teams to meet project deliverables, and maintaining close relationships with key stakeholders. This role also requires excellent communication, negotiation, and persuasion skills.
Must have:
  • 10 years of global travel agency industry experience.
  • 5-7 years of Project Management experience.
  • Strong analytical and negotiation skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Good to have:
  • Good knowledge of GDS industry and travel processes.
  • Understanding of Sabre products and services.
  • Leadership and team coordination skills.
  • Experience in matrix organizations and leading virtual teams.
  • Project Management Certification.

Job Details

Sabre is a technology company that powers the global travel industry. By leveraging next-generation technology, we create global technology solutions that take on the biggest opportunities and solve the most complex challenges in travel. 

Positioned at the center of the travel, we shape the future by offering innovative advancements that pave the way for a more connected and seamless ecosystem as we power mobile apps, online travel sites, airline and hotel reservation networks, travel agent terminals, and scores of other solutions.

Simply put, we connect people with moments that matter.

Lead Project Manager

Description

You will be responsible for providing oversight and overall management of large to complex projects on major client implementations. This also includes management of issues, risks, and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery. You will ensure all projects being delivered are of best-in-class quality. This role has a high focus on ensuring successful delivery of initiatives across projects for a given client.  

The project manager is highly visible to clients and interfaces with multiple internal teams to effectively coordinate delivery on time and with high quality.

Role and Responsibilities  

Manage Sabre products and solutions delivery for Agency Customer implementations.

  • Understand project management delivery methodology.  

  • Under general direction, manages the development and implementation process of a company's products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products. 

  • Projects are complex in scope. Plans and directs schedules and budgets. Be able to operate successfully in a complex and rapidly changing environment. 

  • Planning - identifying customer needs and resources needed to make it a successful transition.  

  • Monitors the project from initiation through delivery. Ensuring each project stays on schedule and adheres to the deadlines. 

  • Support change management processes to help the adaption to a new system environment.

  • Manage timely escalations and followups

  • Work closely with customer support teams & across all operational verticals.  

  • Collaborate with customer, account team to meet project deliverables.  

  • Organizes the interdepartmental collaboration ensuring completion of the project/product on schedule and within budget constraints. 

  • Have excellent communication, negotiation, and persuasion skills with the ability to work with stakeholders and multi-functional teams across organisational boundaries. 

  • Maintains a very close working relationship with customer’s key stakeholders. 

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

EXPERIENCE: Minimum 10 years global travel agency industry experience out of which must have min 5 -7 years of Project Management experience.

  • Good knowledge of GDS industry , travel agency processes and operational standards preferred

  • Understanding of Sabre products and services will be an added advantage

  • Strong analytical skills and negotiation skills

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

  • Leadership and Team coordination skills preferred.

  • Experienced with working in a matrix organization and leading virtual distributed team.

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent. Master's degree preferred.

  • Project Management Certification will be an added advantage.

We will give careful consideration to your application and review your details against the position criteria. You will receive separate notification as your application progresses.

Please note that only candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role will proceed in the selection process.

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