Commercial Strategy Project Manager

Job description / Role

Coordination, Organization and People Management:
- Deliver the project according to its milestones and within budgets
- Manage the change requests mechanism and ensure all changes are accurately impacted and assessed
- Manage the relationship with external providers and outsourcers relations
- Keep the team motivated and engaged.
- Develops relationships with internal customers and other stakeholders of the project.
- Define objectives, goals and periodically evaluate the performance of team members.
- Identify resources needed and assigns individual responsibilities. Reviews deliverables prepared by team before passing to clients or internal customers

Management & Reporting:
- Accountable for function/area reporting, determining the frequency and content required to facilitate measurement.
- Participate in the performance improvement operating procedures design and defines the plans and tasks, to ensure the function outputs are delivered on time and with the quality established.

Finance and budgeting:
- Track overall project spending vs. budget and for defining budget forecasting for each project.
- Develop accurate forecasts revenue, profitability, margins, bill rates and utilization

Requirements

- University Degree (Certificate)
- Project Management (Certificate)
- English (Certificate)
- ITIL (Certificate)
- Advanced technical knowledge of various software tools.
- Management of time, cost and quality of IT projects in the area of software.
- Indirect management of internal, external
- Oracle, PHP, EMC, Microsoft Project Server, all DOTW platforms.
- ITIL
- Project Management
- Resource management
- Solid experience in Change Management
- Supporting IT business processes
- Application Development

Key Skills:
- Understand basic revenue models, P/L, and cost-to-completion projections and
- Ability to work under extreme pressure
- Excellent Organisation skills and Time Management
- Excellent Communication and Interpersonal skills
- Strong Analytical skills
- Able to influence and persuade others
- Result and Customer Oriented

About the Company

Since the establishment of Destinations of the World in 1993, the company has consistently practiced trade neutrality and continues successfully to this day as a dedicated B2B travel industry wholesaler. Our core practices are focused on successfully connecting travel professionals around the globe, loyalty to our business customers, fair trading and being easy to do business with. These core practices are fully supported and disciplined by our pioneering technology and our dedicated team of professionals.

Twenty two years after we started in one country with a team of five, we now have offices in strategic locations around the world with over 300 multilingual professional staff. We have achieved this by continuous investment in people and technology. We have over 130,000 hotels in more than 10,000 destinations worldwide, which are accessed by travel agents, tour operators, OTA\\'s, airlines, wholesalers, customers of Travel Technology companies and GDS\\'s.

Key business growth plans during 2015 include increasing our customer distribution and products in Europe, Asia Pacific, the Americas and Africa.