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 and will ensure that the activities of the Security projects workstreams are handled in a consistent manner while meaningful progress is made and ensure accurate governance over decisions needed for work to be signed off.

The Project Manager will also help the different teams 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 deliver against the shared objectives and goals.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Apply and structured methodology to and lead project/change management activities.
• Design and implement project governance and delivery structure to ensure efficient delivery, communication and decision making.
• Document program objectives, requirements and success criteria, KPIs, planning, risks and dependencies, and in general project status reports
• Drives the program scoping, planning and execution, working with the FareHarbor and Booking.com teams, and crafting associated documentation to ensure project objectives are met on agreed timelines
• Drive the successful delivery of the end-to-end project lifecycle for technical implementations of security solutions (data security, infrastructure security, business continuity, disaster recovery, and/or cyber defense).
• Ensure a project closing and accurate handover to business as usual, covering NIST and SOC2 requirements.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Previous relevant experience of 3-5 years
• PMP of equivalent certification is preferred
• Experience in leading change management tasks
• Proven experience of leading end-to-end integration with an ability to understand multiple security solutions
• Ability to work effectively and influence up to senior manager
• Understanding of infrastructure security, data security, and/or cyber defense
• Experience working and handling multicultural teams
• Ability to handle a large number of collaborators and build consensus
• Consistent record of developing and maintaining valuable partner relationships across all levels of the organization.
• Solid grasp of change management and ability to guide people through change
• 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 pay 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, the 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.

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.