Project Manager

• Join and shape a growing Digital team at Jetstar
• Flexible ways of working – hybrid model with 3 days onsite
• Full time, 12-month fixed-term opportunity, based at our head office in Collingwood, Melbourne

Love travel and passionate about all things aviation. You’re in the right place. At Jetstar, you get to take-off at work, and in life.

As a team, we’re lucky we get to do both for a living – and we want you to be part of where we go next. Helping our teammates soar is what we’re all about. And with a new fleet of state-of-the-art aircraft, plus new routes being added, the sky’s the limit.

Take-off with your next opportunity!

Jetstar has strong partner relationships with travel agents and other travel companies. We are running numerous projects to lift our technology capability to improve the effectiveness of these partnerships, and ultimately better service our end customers. These projects include new technology, and new processes/capabilities.

At Jetstar, we are seeking a Project Manager to help run these projects – work with existing team members and partners, to define and manage project plans, and to uplift the project management capability of the existing team.

The core responsibilities of this role will be:

• Lead, motivate and influence the different teams involved in delivering projects in our Channels team.
• Coach and upskill existing team members to help their growth.
• Define project ways of working, integrate ways of working of various project teams/vendors.
• Track and regularly report on progress - benefits/scope, schedule and budget – take corrective action when required.
• Identify important dependencies, and actively manage these to protect delivery.
• Mitigate risks and manage issues/blockers.
• Determine people and teams required to deliver project. Ensure that roles & responsibilities are defined and understood by people involved. Ensure that required teams are available to deliver to the plan.
• Initiate and run suitable project governance forums to provide updates and facilitate timely project decisions.
• Build and manage key stakeholder relationships, ensure stakeholders are kept up to date on project status and influence to achieve project outcomes.
• Manage vendors who need to contribute to the project delivery. Manage the creation and approval of financial and commercial documents (commercials & procurement).
• Forecast project costs, manage costs to ensure that budget is achieved.

To be considered, key skills will include: 

• 3+ years’ of experience as a Project Manager, managing multiple concurrent projects.
• Relevant tertiary qualification with a degree in Business, Technology and/or relevant field preferred.
• Experience defining project ways of working, and integrating various project team/vendor ways of working (waterfall/agile/etc.)
• Outstanding communication, presentation, leadership, and coaching skills.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• Familiarity and experience with Agile ways of working (as some squads are using Agile)

Applications close on the 3rd of September

Your life at Jetstar is unlike any other..

Live the travel dream: You and your nominated travel companions can take-off more with our famous Qantas Group Staff Travel discount. 

Make work feel like a holiday: Join a fun, driven team where work feels like a holiday. Our people take every opportunity to take-off together and find ways to help their teammates soar.

There’s a place for everyone at Jetstar:  For us, travel and meeting new people go hand in hand. We invite our people to get involved in various Employee Network Groups that play an important role in creating our inclusive and supportive culture that we are fiercely proud of.  We believe that teams with a diversity of ideas and experiences are more creative, innovative and solve problems quickly.  We welcome applications from anyone who wants to take-off with us.  If you have support or access requirements, just reach out and let us know what you need.

We’re Jetstar.  Let’s take-off together!