Global Aircraft Project Lead (Remote)

SITA Group; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 65.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Flex Week

Flex Day

Flex-Location (up to 30 days remote)

Employee wellbeing program

Professional development

Zusammenfassung

SITA is seeking a Project Lead to drive end-to-end delivery of product and service projects for airline and aviation customers. You will coordinate cross-functional teams across Engineering, Customer Service and Operations, Product Management, and more in 20+ countries.

You will lead defined workstreams and manage complex delivery with clear governance, reporting, and executive updates in a fast-paced, international environment.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering or Telecommunications Engineering.
• Minimum of three years’ project management experience delivering communications, telecommunications, or network infrastructure projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects across scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Knowledge of predictive, Agile, and hybrid project delivery approaches.
• Sufficient technical understanding of communications and networking environments to work effectively with engineering and operations teams, challenge assumptions, and manage technical dependencies.
• Proven ability to coordinate cross-functional and geographically distributed teams while managing multiple priorities with limited supervision.
• Strong team player who collaborates openly, supports colleagues, shares accountability, and contributes constructively to common goals across functions and locations.
• International experience gained through employment, project assignments, or education, demonstrating the ability to work effectively across countries and cultures.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage technical specialists, commercial teams, product managers, operations teams, suppliers, and customers.
• Ability to prepare and present clear project updates, recommendations, and executive-level summaries.
• Professional fluency in written and spoken English.

Aufgaben

• Lead projects through the full life cycle, from definition and planning through delivery, transition to operations, and formal closure, ensuring that agreed business and customer outcomes are achieved.
• Translate business and technical requirements into clear project plans, budgets, schedules, resource needs, dependencies, and risk responses, drawing on specialist input where required.
• Build and coordinate geographically distributed, cross-functional teams, establishing clear responsibilities and securing the resources required for delivery.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and changes; identify delivery constraints early and escalation promptly when decisions or support are required.
• Apply established portfolio and project management standards, including governance reviews, status reporting, decision tracking, risk management, and executive communications.
• Manage customer and stakeholder communications, maintain alignment on priorities and expectations, and present concise progress updates and recommendations to senior management.
• Lead defined workstreams, sub-projects, or critical delivery activities within larger programmes when required, remaining accountable for delivery through completion.
• Promote a collaborative, customer-focused, and results-oriented team culture.

Kenntnisse

Project management

Agile methodologies

Hybrid delivery

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional coordination

English communication

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering or Telecommunications Engineering

Jobbeschreibung

SITA is seeking a Project Lead to drive end-to-end delivery of product and service projects for airline and aviation customers. You will coordinate cross-functional teams across Engineering, Customer Service and Operations, Product Management, and more in 20+ countries.

You will lead defined workstreams and manage complex delivery with clear governance, reporting, and executive updates in a fast-paced, international environment.