Project and Program Manager

Company Description

lastminute.com is the European Travel Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. It operates a portfolio of well-known brands such as lastminute.com, Volagratis, Rumbo, weg.de, Bravofly, Jetcost and Hotelscan.

Our mission is to lead the travel industry by leveraging technology to simplify, personalise, and enhance our customers’ travel experience. Experts in brightening up online travel, we help our customers find and do "whatever makes them pink".

We continuously invest in talented people who ensure our offering is closer to the needs of the customers and keep us at the cutting edge of technology evolution. We run our business in 17 languages and 40 countries, with more than 1,500 employees spread across our offices worldwide, developing our own products and services to power the entire traveller journey for millions of people.

At the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

lastminute.com N.V. is a publicly-traded company listed under the ticker symbol LMN on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Job Description

We are looking for a goal-oriented and resourceful Project and Program Manager to join the cruises  team. 

She/he loves to lead change, navigate a dynamic organization across multiple departments and domains, challenge the organization to provide value.

Key Responsibilities 

  • Design, formalize and manage cross-functional Programs
  • Manage stakeholders' engagement, expectations and coordination
  • Act directly as a Project Manager when needed, defining project scope and objectives, assigning project responsibilities, monitoring progresses and boosting the project team's capability to achieve the defined goal
  • Create functional requirements
  • Build and maintain cross-functional relationships

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience in Program Management
  • 4+ years of experience in Project Management
  • Ability to manage and coordinate multiple projects simultaneously
  • Strong organizational skills with a high level of attention to detail and quality
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills
  • Experience in managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders at different levels and cross domains
  • Comfort interfacing, dealing and presenting to senior team members
  • Independent, intellectually curious, empathetic
  • Full proficiency in English, Italian and Spanish

Desirable

  • Project and Program management certification (PMP, PgMP)

Additional Information

Our company is distributed across major European countries, in a multicultural environment where the Pink spirit gets lived boldly 🦩 through async comms and live remote events, as well as hybrid office gatherings. 

Information sharing is crucial and, being a pure digital player, product management is at the heart of our business.

If you think we’re a fit and that we could have fun together, please let us know by applying for the position