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Senior Project Manager

  • Sky
  • Lisbon, Portugal
  • 24/05/2024
Full time Programme / Project Management

Job Description

Join us at Sky Portugal and be part of our exciting journey to lead the way in the streaming tech world!  

As a Senior Project Manager, you'll play a key role in our innovative team dedicated to creating exceptional experiences for our global customers.  

From powering platforms like NBCUniversal’s Peacock in the United States to Sky’s NOW, and SkyShowtime across Europe, and now Showmax in over 40 countries in Africa, one thing’s for certain, your contributions will impact millions of viewers worldwide. 

What You'll Do:

  • As the Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for leading the execution of data projects within business and technical analytics teams.

  • Defines and manages decision sciences projects, working closely with analytics professionals, product managers, delivery technology teams, and business stakeholders.

  • Monitor risks and issues across projects, serving as a point of escalation/remediation for them. 

  • Facilitate recurring team and cross-functional meetings, take ownership of milestone deadlines and open items with persistent follow-through.

  • Connect the dots across teams and silos to ensure cross functional issues and decisions are flagged to leadership for resolution, manage dependencies throughout the project lifecycle. 

  • Create and maintain project plans, reports, and dashboards that regularly provide the team and executive sponsors insight into the program portfolio. 

  • Ability to reach beyond project updates and status to see larger business impacts and likely results.   

  • Articulate the larger theme to surrounding teams and stakeholders. 

  • Ability to create and consider multiple approaches down to one recommended well thought out (short and long term) strategy including logic/reasoning on the program.  

  • Leads cross-functional teams through complex projects, delivering outstanding results. 

  • Partner with other PMO and Delivery teams to ensure successful delivery 

  • Highlight team wins to senior stakeholders.

  • Advocate for team’s work’s prioritization with delivery teams. 

What You'll Bring:

  • Bachelor's degree in technical or business-related field.

  • Minimum 4 years of experience in a project management, business operations, or analytics role within a global technology organization.

  • Experience managing large-scale, enterprise projects

  • Experience with JIRA and Confluence.

  • Proficiency across a variety of Project Management methodologies 

  • Proficiency with a variety of Project Scheduling tools (e.g., MS Project, Smartsheet, etc.). 

  • Experience with analytics tooling (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).

  • Excellent written and verbal communication, ability to tailor to all levels of an organization.

Benefits & Perks:

  • Competitive Rewards: Above market salary, yearly bonus, and access to a share-save plan.  

  • Work-Life Flexibility: Embrace a hybrid working model and enjoy flexible holidays.  

  • Employee Benefits Plan: Access a wide range of benefits that are designed and tailored to your everyday needs. 

  • Health and Well-Being: Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family.  

  • Continuous Learning: Access learning and development opportunities and an additional budget that you can use for education and professional training 

  • Tech Perks: Mobile phone with a data plan, and access to several partnerships and discounts.  

  • Entertainment Goodies: Enjoy the best of entertainment with a complimentary SkyShowtime subscription.  

  • Referral Rewards: Participate in our employee referral program and reap the rewards.  

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can't wait to hear from you!

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