Agile Project Manager

Luton/Hybrid– 3 days a week in the office

Job Purpose

The Agile Project Manager role at easyJet play a crucial part in managing projects that span both the Business & Technology organisations reporting to a Senior Project Manager and supporting Customer, Commercial, Global Markets & Holidays organisations.

As easyJet continues to grow and evolve the Agile ways of working across our delivery, this is an exciting opportunity to bring strong Agile experience into an organisation on the journey to become Europe’s most loved airline.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Value Delivery: Partner with business leads to relentlessly deliver business outcomes and benefits through integrated projects.
• Governance Adherence: Ensure adherence to all project governance requirements, including budget, velocity, key milestones, and team KPIs reporting.
• Versatile Methodologies: Be proficient in working within both Agile and Waterfall environments to adapt project management methodologies as needed.
• Promote Collaboration: Collaborate closely with leads, stakeholders, Product Manager/Owner and delivery team members to foster a culture of collaboration.
• End-to-End Delivery: Work closely with technology leads to create and oversee end-to-end delivery plans.
• Resource Management: Manage project resource requirements in collaboration with resource owners and third-party providers, where applicable.
• Risk Management: Effectively manage project risks, issues, and dependencies, intervening proactively to maintain project course.
• Event Facilitation: Organize and facilitate project delivery events and decision-making processes, such as sprint planning, steercos, progress reporting, and retrospectives.
• Problem Solving: Resolve obstacles and facilitate effective decision-making with impacted stakeholders.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify learnings and root causes, supporting their application to enhance future initiative deliveries.
  
  
  

Skills & Experience

• Experience and exposure to model delivery environments (Agile, Waterfall and blended delivery approaches)
• You will be experienced in using in programme and project management techniques/systems across mix-model delivery techniques (e.g. Agile scrum, MSP, APM, Prince2, Jira, Confluence, Miro)
• Demonstrable experience in Agile Project/Product Management
• Proven ability to work as one team to support project delivery, leading and motivating project teams of 15+ people (including third-party suppliers)
• Strong communication, negotiation, relationship building and leadership skills.
  
  
  

What You’ll Get In Return

• Competitive base salary
• Up to 20% bonus
• 25 days holiday
• BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes
• 7% pension
• Life Insurance
• Work Away Scheme
• Flexible benefits package
• Excellent staff travel benefits
  
  
  

About EasyJet

At easyJet our aim is to make low-cost travel easy – connecting people to what they value using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.

It takes a real team effort to carry over 90 million passengers a year across 35 countries. Whether you’re working as part of our front-line operations or in our corporate functions, you’ll find people that are positive, inclusive, ready to take on a challenge, and that have your back. We call that our ‘Orange Spirit’, and we hope you’ll share that too.

Apply

Complete your application on our careers site.

We encourage individuality, empower our people to seize the initiative, and never stop learning. We see people first and foremost for their performance and potential and we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates

Business Area

Information Technology (IT)

Primary Location

United Kingdom-London-London Luton Airport

Organisation

Information Technology (IT)

Schedule

Full-time

Unposting Date

Ongoing