Booking Holdings Romania - Project Manager (Security & Fraud)

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world's leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through six-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK, OpenTable and Rentalcars.com.

Role description

The Project Manager is responsible for the governance and project management initiatives within the Security department. The Project Manager will ensure that the activities of the Security projects workstreams are managed in a consistent manner, while challenging progress made and ensure proper governance over decisions needed for work to be signed off. The Project Manager will also help the different teams to mitigate the project risks and dependencies to make sure there is progress towards the project's milestones. All these activities are needed to help the program to deliver against the shared objectives and goals.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Applying structured methodology and managing project/change management activities
• Managing the successful delivery of the end-to-end project lifecycle
• Contributing to the project scoping and planning by helping to document the project goal, KPIs, roadmap and main deliverables
• Creating clear planning documents together with involved teams and tracking progress of the milestones while challenging the outcomes
• Maintaining the risk register, dependency tracker, action log and program charter
• Supporting in the drafting of recurring reporting to the various committees including the steering and operating committees as well as taking minutes of these meetings
• Engaging and influencing stakeholders inside and, if required, outside of the organization to help drive project outcomes

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Previous relevant experience of 3-5 years
• Strong project management skills and understanding approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle
• Good problem solving and root cause identification skills
• Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships (both within a team and with across functions)
• Ability to communicate in 1:1 and small groups; Strong influencer in 1:1
• Strong presentation skills including strong spreadsheet and presentation software skills
• Organized with a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics
• Flexible and adaptable
• Bachelor's Degree
• Advanced English knowledge

Benefits & Perks

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

Pre-Employment Screening:

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.