Product Director

Travel obsessed? Big tech fan? Hey, you’re in good company. If you want to be part of the industry that makes the world go round, then look no further. 

Travelport is the brains behind lots of your travel bookings- plane, car or hotel. Our technology is used to book that magical holiday, infamous bachelorette party or long overdue school reunion. While we can’t solve mosquito bites or lost luggage, we can simplify a lot of the technical parts of travel, and we’re looking for the best thinkers to help us do it.

We’re hiring right now for a Product Director Search for #Travelport on LinkedIn and hear from our amazing team.

How you’ll make an impact:

Lead a core team of product managers and technical product managers in our goal to truly operationalize IATA New Distribution Capability (NDC) content for our customers.  NDC is the bedrock for our multi-source content strategy:
 

This Product team will span across Offer and Order, from Search, Sell to Service. The Product Director will work closely with our Engineering leads and create product roadmaps showing full stack delivery through our Access channels (API and UI). You will lead a team of product professionals within a matrixed organizational environment demonstrating inspirational leadership and thought leadership for the product portfolio.

Your role in action:

• Provides strategic guidance to the Product Management team for a product portfolio to resolve problems involving highly technical dependencies or creating proposals for changes to requirements or the roadmap.   Adapt the requirement approach in line with the product design and development activities to deliver ROI. Leads the direction of the Product Management principles, methodologies and processes for a product portfolio ensuring that interdependencies are fully identified, documented and solutioned at the enterprise level.
• Influences and liaises effectively at a senior and executive level with business and technical teams to analyze and evaluate opportunities for business change requirements to deliver operational efficiencies and drive customer satisfaction within approved budgets.      Partners with cross-functional leaders, as well as onshore/offshore resources, to deliver the right products to our customers at the right time in the right experiences.
• Responsible for coaching, mentoring and developing the Product Management team for a product portfolio to deliver their objectives and manage their performance as well as guiding them to achieve their personal growth aspirations. Responsible for providing regular feedback on performance and behaviors as part of the Performance Enablement practice and fostering a high-performing team. Accountable for resolution of escalated issues; responsible for communication issues and resolutions to senior leadership.

Could this be you?

• Experience in product, consultancy or business analysis and leadership of multi-disciplined and geographically dispersed teams.
• Enterprise breadth knowledge and strategic understanding of business and product and key commercial clients. Knowledge of financials to create sound business cases.
• Strategic understanding of functional areas and responsibilities as they relate to Travelport people, business and clients. Communicate effectively on the purpose and vision of the product roadmap to the wider product and cross functional teams.   The ability to inspire teams to high performance and understand their role in delivering or contributing to the business outcomes.
• Deep understanding of tech trends and travel industry.

Discover why our teams love working here: Our diversity connects us. We’re advancing inclusion with Travelport ID by celebrating our diverse workforce and creating a space that allows our team members to feel fully engaged within their working environments. Travelport ID’s global internal champions work together to create a space for an on-going sounding board that provides feedback regarding strategic diversity objectives within the organization to help create a more inclusive work environment.

Where do we start! Our benefits package includes:

We offer a package that includes 25 days annual leave per annum, plus Christmas working days (office shutdown), hybrid working model, pension contribution, private medical, life assurance and personal travel insurance. We believe all employees contribute to the success of the company and should be able to share in that success, which is why all jobs are eligible to participate in our bonus program with any payouts being subject to individual and company performance.

Search for #lifeattravelport & #travelportGDL for our employee stories on LinkedIn!

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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.