Project Manager

Work to turn vacation dreams into life-long memories by becoming a part of the Apple Leisure Group (ALG) team We strive to be the first choice in vacation travel, enriching lives and uniting the world.
Grow your career as a* Project Manager* within Trisept Solutions, one of our 14 industry-leading brands. In this role, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, monitoring and implementing very complex IT projects to meet organizational goals. Maintain the efficiency of important aspects of the project management process such as planning, scheduling, budget and risk assessment. Takes project from original concept through final implementation. Works closely with business analysts (if assigned) on project scope and objectives validation. Develops detailed work plans, schedules, projects estimates, resources plan and status reports. Conducts project meetings and is responsible for project tracking and analysis. Ensures adherence to quality standards and review project deliverables. Manages the integration of vendor tasks and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables. Provides technical and analytical guidance to project team. Responsible for day-to-day operations of the management of projects assigned.
**A successful Project Manager will be**:

- Work in the preparation and definition of the Hospitality portfolio projects.
- Assessing requirements of the project and recommending suitable IT components.
- Formulating procedures and policies for optimum utilization of IT resources in the organization.
- Strong communication skills with cross functional project teams, team workers, functional test team, sponsors, management, partners, vendors and users.
- Excellent public relationship skills with Customers, Co-workers & External Partners
- Ability to monitor and drive issues, track tasks, and evaluate priorities daily.
- Maintain project documents: Software (SW) Project Plan, Schedule, Sharepoint, Teams, Smartsheet. (Ensure project documents are complete, current and stored appropriately).
- Work closer to the PMO to follow projects framework, guidelines, standards, templates, best practices, etc.
- Publish weekly status reports/dashboards.
- Facilitate project status meetings and key stakeholder reviews.
- Preparation and management of a Project Plan to meet required milestones.
- Deliver the project within agreed upon timeline and budget.
- Lead meetings with external and internal teams to facilitate project completion.
- Identify and engage key stakeholders as appropriate.
- Identify resources needed and assign individual responsibilities.
- Provide notification of milestone completions.
- Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.
- Identify Risks in the projects, and design strategies to ovoid or mitigate it.
- Elevate all critical issues and risks with suggested courses of action.
- Propose new initiatives that could help lowering costs, incrementing staff satisfaction or working more efficiently.
- Any other responsibilities, activities or tasks identified by the IT Hospitality Leads or PMO in terms of growing and developing the organization.
- Must be a Problem Solver

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree in computer information systems or related.
- Strong understanding of project management methodology and terminology.
- Strong analytical and documentation skills.
- 5 years as PM related experience on IT Projects.
- 5 years of experience Hotel/Tourism/Travel Vacation Companies is a plus
- Fluent Spanish & English+ (written and verbal).
- Knowledge of Project Management Tools (like MS Project, Smartsheet).
- Expertise using Microsoft Office Suite.
- Produce high quality documentation.
- Ability to influence and persuade in order to achieve desired outcomes.
- Ability to confidently present concepts and solutions verbally in front of a group.
- Ability to offer alternative solutions to project scope.
- Ability to work with mínimal supervision.
- Seek to gain knowledge from the PMO, BAs, PMs, and Compliance Regulations.
- Acts as a champion for the team and the company.
- Ability to manage large scale efforts by delegating tasks and overseeing multiple projects.
- Ability to align with customer support and product teams in order to troubleshoot customer issues.
- Ability to work multi-task and prioritize several project initiatives.
- Positive and proactive attitude
- Excellent interpersonal, consultative, and communication skills
- Excellent organizational, planning, facilitation, and prioritization skills
- Ability to identify problems and recognizing important information with a clear understanding of the underlying links between the details.
- Ability finding the causes of problems to quickly identify and filter relevant information to solve them.
- Willing to travel, to support knowledge transfer on global projects.
**About APPLE LEISURE GROUP**
As North America’s only vertically-integrated travel, hospitality and leisure management group, Apple Leisure Group is an