Travelport is a place of opportunity. It's our incredible team that makes our company great - our people drive our winning culture. What's Travelport? Travelport is a worldwide travel retail platform that provides easy ways for businesses like airlines, hotels, and car rental companies to connect through personalized content to agencies and travelers. The world is changing, and our industry must change with it. We're leading the change; we are the change.
We are on a mission to power the future of travel; come join us.
What does a great Product Manager - Rail do? The Product Manager is responsible for identifying our customer needs in the travel industry market, understanding those needs by creating clear and defined features and lean business cases. Supporting an Agile Product Delivery Customer Centric approach in defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of value and services to the customer.
Guiding the work through Lean product management and developing and executing on the product vision and product roadmap, the Rail Product Manager identifies customer needs to articulate value propositions that will drive the optimum return on investment for their product.
The Product Manager - Rail, will be versed in API technology, specifically content that enables end-to-end capabilities through API and agency point of sale. The product manager provides the vision and direction to the delivery teams around value pursuit, feature prioritization and feature-level acceptance criteria. The Product Manager will apply analytics and quantitative, data-driven decision-making models to inform business decisions coupled with the ability to think creatively about constraints. Responsible for entire product lifecycle including sunsetting of products.
This role requires extensive collaboration with other product managers to ensure integration of content and prioritization across many initiatives.
Responsibilities include: - Developing deep functional product knowledge and understanding the technical composition of systems that support it
- Developing and communicating the product vision and roadmap for internal and external consumption
- Researching and collaborating to understand and document customer needs and validate solutions
- Translating high-level market requirements into epic level features, authoring acceptance criteria, and providing product acceptance to ensure market needs are met. Tools used will be Aha! and JIRA Collaborating to understand, document, and support portfolio work
- Serving as a subject matter expert and leader to Travelport technical teams ensuring a complete functional definition of the desired features
Who we are looking for in this role: - Knowledge and implementation of agile and SAFe product management and product owner techniques, tools & principles
- Ability to clearly express the connections between larger business goals and small backlog items for alignment with Product strategy
- Communicate effectively on the purpose and vision of the product roadmap to the wider delivery team and their role in delivering or contributing to the business outcomes
- Effective management, prioritization and ownership & accountability for the product backlog; stakeholder management of the backlog and ability to say "no" where items don't make sense for the bigger picture
Our ambition is to hire for potential not just experience, and you're likely to succeed if you: - Are always ready to give it your all and deliver high quality work
- Are excited to use your creativity and innovative thinking to try new things
- Take responsibility and own your work
- Are courageous and ambitious to challenge what's been done before
These are just a few of our employee's favourite benefits/perks... Competitive base salary, annual bonus, private medical insurance, very generous holiday allowance and life assurance.
Interested? We'd love for you to get in touch! Please note that if your application is progressed, you may be asked to complete a self-recorded video interview, at a time that works best for you. This is your chance to bring your skills & experience to life in your own words and style. Ensure you keep an eye on your junk folder just in case our invitation finds its way there.
We are an equal opportunities employer and will consider all qualified applicants purely on their skills and abilities. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation, if needed.