Privacy Project Manager

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, administration and  project management of Privacy initiatives within the Marketing Department. The Project Manager role is partnering with the various teams within the Company to support, and proactively work with them, to facilitate the work occurring between them and the business units and centralized functions they support. They help the teams to scope and plan the projects by helping to document the project goal, KPIs, roadmap and main deliverables. The Project Managers ensure that the Privacy projects are managed in a consistent manner, whilst working with the business units & central functions within Booking.com to build engagement and where needed call our decisions needed for work to be signed off. In some cases, the role requires handling with external collaborators and managing external stakeholders. The Project Manager also helps the different teams to mitigate the project risks and dependencies to make sure there is progress towards the project's achievements. First and foremost, the Project Manager ensures the team's roadmaps/plans focus on agreed business priorities, dependencies and strategies – designed based on data and business needs, and deliver against the shared objectives & goals. The Project Manager will work closely with Senior Project Managers and other team members to ensure effective project delivery. 

Role Qualifications and Requirements

Bachelor degree
3 - 5 years relevant Job Knowledge
Solid familiarity with project approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle
Ability to lead one or more low/medium complexity projects 
A solid understanding of how people go through the change curve and the change process 
Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships (both within a team and with wider collaborators) 
Ability to work effectively and influence collaborators
Effectively communicate in small/medium groups; Strong influencer in 1:1 and small groups 
Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations and under pressure 
Organized with a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics 
Ability to use quantitative and qualitative data to drive call out decision making 
Ability to contribute to long term vision though forming the bigger picture
Strong Problem solving and root cause identification skills 
Basic eye for business and understanding of organizational issues and challenges 
Knowledge/background of privacy topics, similar industries and/or business projects is preferred
PMP and/or Agile Project Management or equivalent certification is highly desirable

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

Apply structured methodology to and lead project/change management activities 
Own the successful delivery of the end-to-end project lifecycle
Lead independently low / medium complexity projects with global impact (cross-functional) driving them through execution, analysis, recommendation and implementation 
Work with collaborators to enable change management processes 
Engage and influence collaborators inside and if required outside of the organization: work collaboratively with business unit partners and corporate support teams to drive successful project implementation
Communicate project insights and recommendations across all collaborators
Call out risks, opportunities and potential decisions as and when appropriate. 
Drive the Project prioritization and Planning by helping to document the project goal, critical metrics, roadmap and main results
Track and report progress; Creates clear planning documents together with involved departments 
Ensure a project closing and correct handover to Business as usual 
Ability to work and productively interact with different collaborators

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.

• Annual bonus
• Medical subscription
• Medical insurance
• Life insurance
• Trainings
• Courses
• Certifications
• Bookster subscription
• Remote work allowance / Utilities reimbursement
• Payment / Compensation for extra hours
• Extra days off
• Flexible work schedule
• Short Fridays
• Parties / company events
• Laptop
• Mobile phone
• Parking space
• Fun / Relax Area
• Meal vouchers