Product Owner - Airport Operations

To drive and influence IT solutions for Airport Operations within the Organization ensuring that the systems are effectively defined implemented deployed integrated and aligned with the different Business processes and Strategic Goals. This involves acting as the main liaison between Business stakeholders and the development team ensuring that the Product meets business expectations while delivering on the agreed timelines.

Accountabilities:

• Working in partnership with IAG Tech and the business to:
• Develop and manage project plans schedules and budgets.
• Lead and manage crossfunctional teams including developers functional/business analysts and technical infrastructure teams.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to define project scope goals and deliverables.
• Ensure project deliverables are completed ontime within budget and meet or exceed quality standards.
• Identify and mitigate project risks and issues.
• Communicate project status risks and issues to project sponsors and business stakeholders.
• Ensure appropriate project documentation is developed and maintained throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide leadership and guidance to project team members.
• Stay up to date with IT best practices and trends implementation following Agile methodologies.

Qualifications :

Qualifications:

Educated to degree level or equivalent experience

Desired qualifications:

• Airport and Airline Operations Knowledge: deep understanding of airline and airport processes
• Recognized Agile and Waterfall qualifications
• Previous experience in IT projects

Skills:

• Project Management: Strong project management skills including definition planning execution monitoring and support. Proficiency in project management tools and software.
• Leadership and Communication: Excellent leadership skills to manage and motivate the project team.
• Strong communication skills to interact with stakeholders and team members effectively.
• ProblemSolving: Ability to identify and resolve issues that arise during the implementation process.
• Analytical skills to assess project performance and make datadriven decisions.
• Forming strong stakeholder relationships with a proven ability of influencing negotiating and persuading internally and externally
• Business partnering working as a valued partner with senior stakeholders across a diverse operation delivering a valueadded service to business customers. 
• Ability to recognise priorities and guide others towards the accomplishment of strategic business goals and objectives.
• Embracing and managing both business and IT change as necessary to help shape future direction.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Fluent written and spoken English and Spanish

Experience:

• Demonstratable experience of successfully implementations of airline/airport projects.
• Experience of working in a business and technology delivery environment.
• Experience of working with the following is highly desirable:
  • Process mapping tools
  • Agile and waterfall management tools
• Experience of operating across multiple countries and cultures is desirable

Additional Information :

Benefits
The chance to enjoy a challenging career in an exciting fastmoving environment in a dynamic industry working in a multicultural environment with great offices in many locations. We aim to provide all our people with a work/life balance as well as the many benefits offered by a global organisation including health insurance pension and performance bonuses

Diversity and Inclusion
IAG Tech is part of the IAG GBS organisation and our people are at the heart of everything we do. We recognise that we can only deliver the required business outcomes if we have a thriving community of technology professionals. Together we strive to become the very best at what we do.

We focus on making Tech a great place to work with a community that we feel proud to belong to. To help make this a reality our people strategy focuses on six key domains: Engagement Talent Management Reward and Recognition Performance Management Learning and Development and Culture. 

We understand the importance of Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace to deliver this strategy everyone should feel part of our team. We want to foster an inclusive workplace celebrate individuality and embrace differences so that everyone in IAG Tech can achieve their goals and ambitions regardless of their personal circumstances or background. 

As a Group IAG has an ambition that 40% of senior management roles are held by women by 2025. IAG Tech fully supports that ambition and we are working to help make it a reality. With this in mind we have set ourselves the challenging target of recruiting 50% female colleagues by 2030.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime