Project Manager (based in Edinburgh, UK)

Project Manager, (Edinburgh, UK)
Salary - £40,000 - £50,000 plus benefits

About Us

Skyscanner is one of Europe’s leading flight search engines, offering a flexible, fast and independent solution to finding flights on the web. With offices in Edinburgh and Poland, we offer excellent salaries and benefits package in a creative and respectful work place.
As a rapidly growing company, you will join us at an exciting time in our development, offering you the chance to make significant contributions to the direction and development of Skyscanner.

About the Role

We are looking for an exceptional individual to project manage a raft of exciting projects that will help us realise our goal of becoming one of the top 100 websites in the world.
Core Responsibilities

Project Start-Up:

• Work closely with Skyscanner stakeholders  to understand the business requirements for the project.
• Define project phases & deliverables for each phase, ensuring stakeholder buy-in at each stage.
• Create project & resource plans, work closely with stakeholders to ensure planned project meets constraints WRT budget, timescales, technical architecture & resources.
• Identify risks associated with project & develop appropriate mitigation strategies.

Day-to-Day Project Management:

• Manage the development & delivery of project phases, ensuring each deliverable is complete, supportable and of appropriate quality.
• Manage, monitor and motivate resources assigned to the project. 
• Create regular progress reports to the Project Board & ad-hoc written updates as required.
• Regular and excellent communication & liaison with stakeholders, project team etc.
• Ongoing maintenance of work plans, resource schedules etc.
• Ongoing monitoring & management of risks & issues; appropriate and considered escalation & mitigation of these where necessary.
• React to new ideas or ‘adjustments’ in project direction in a flexible, supportive & creative manner, exploiting creative input whilst managing expectations. The outcome being either keeping the project on track or providing the Project Stakeholders with the required information to make a realistic risk Vs value decision on project changes.

Project Management responsibilities are expected to be executed using a considered, flexible approach, utilising the best features of Agile, Risk-based & traditional project management methodologies.


Core Competencies

• Ability to manage project start-up phase, liaising with stakeholders, facilitating discussions and documenting user requirements.
• Experience of the whole project life cycle, able to operate in the initial conceptual design stage, in the depths of system testing, and at each stage in between.
• Ability to scope, plan and budget projects, incorporating crucial details such as risk management and return on investment.
• Technically capable enough to support the technical lead in maintaining the architectural integrity of the project & actively manage highly technical team members.
• Ability to supervise, motivate & nurture all those in the team, creating an empowering environment whilst also motivating individuals when required.
• Ability to ensure that all projects are executed within budget, to time and to high standards.
• Outstanding communication & relationship management skills.
• Strong influencing & leadership skills.
• Adaptability & flexibility, capable of thriving in a fast-paced, creative environment but with the confidence and resilience not to be fazed when things really hot-up!

Candidate Requirements

Essential:

• A proven track record of successful software development project implementation.
• Experience of managing web and database software development and testing.
• Team management experience, comfortable managing project teams of up to 10 people. 
• Graduate calibre, with at least five years experience in project management.
• Good communicator, strong leader & influencer.
• Professional, flexible, adaptable & pragmatic, able to work and adapt in a fast-moving, creative team. 
• A demonstrable understanding of a range of project management methodologies & their benefits & limitations.

Desirable:

• Experience in travel/airline or related industries.
• Experience of working in a small web company, including SEO and user experience management.
• Demonstrable understanding of programme management.

Interested?
Send us a current CV to jobs@skyscanner.net  together with the following:

• Make the subject line “Project Manager (insert your name)”
• Suggest a book, blog, website or magazine you would recommend us to read 
• An outline as to why your skills and experience would meet the needs of this challenging role