Project Manager
easyJet · United Kingdom-London-London Luton Airport
Project Manager
We are easyJet – a FTSE-250 listed, £multi-billion low-cost airline that serves tens of millions of customers every single year. If you’re reading this, you have probably already been an easyJet customer, and you’ll know that there is no more iconic (or Orange!) travel brand in Europe.
We fly more than 1,207 routes, connecting 38 countries across Europe, and employ more than 18,000 colleagues. We’re on a mission to make low-cost travel easy – and whatever your role here, you’ll connect millions of people to what they love using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.
What makes us easyJet? Our Promise Behaviours – we are Safe, Bold, Welcoming and Challenging. Four Behaviours. One Spirit. One easyJet.
JOB PURPOSE
Responsible for delivering projects to agreed measures (time, cost, quality, value) to enable defined benefits in order to improve business performance. The Project Manager will have responsibility for both standalone projects within the easyJet enterprise portfolio and for specific work-streams/projects within larger programmes.
The role reports into the Senior Project Manager or Portfolio Delivery Lead.
JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Deliver integrated change projects (people, process, technology) with a relentless focus on delivering the business outcomes and defined benefits in line with the business case
- Ensure the project is designed and governed in alignment to easyJet delivery framework
- Work closely with the Senior Project Manager and Business Lead to achieve appropriate project business sponsorship, stakeholder support and engagement.
- Work closely with technology leads to pull end to end delivery plans
- Decompose the project into deliverables and work-streams with a focus on efficient time to value
- Carve out critical path to ensure timely delivery.
- Define and manage the project resource requirements working with resource owners in both driving and enabling business functions
- Ensure a robust control environment is established and managed for the project
- Mobilise and manage the project team to achieve the project goals and objectives
- Manage risks, issues and dependencies; proactively stage interventions to maintain course on the project
- Performs project & workstream peer reviews to provide assurance in all delivery & benefit areas