Project Manager - Global Aviation Programs

Start Date: Asap

End Date: 14/10/2026

Location: Diegem

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver business-process and software projects that enhance Airline tools, infrastructure, service quality, operational efficiency, and safety-critical systems.
• Define, document, and maintain the project scope.
• Plan and execute projects and workstreams to time, budget, and specification.
• Collaborate with functional analysts and IT teams to design systems and to-be processes aligned with project objectives.
• Address project and content issues related to aircraft operations, regulatory requirements, and operational processes.
• Identify, monitor, and manage project risks, mitigation actions, and issues.
• Ensure adherence to standards and work with IT partners to deliver architecturally approved, high-quality solutions.
• Oversee end-to-end application usage, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, aviation IT standards, and business processes.
• Act as quality-control authority for vendor and in-house development, ensuring all required testing levels (functional, integration, end-to-end, boundary, UAT).
• Ensure project outputs achieve the benefits defined in the business case.
• Manage schedule, cost, quality, risks, issues, and scope per the agreed governance framework.
• Prepare and present project status reports to project sponsors and management.
• Own project deliverables supporting multi-year business-domain programs.

Your Profile:

• Minimum 5 years’ IT project management experience with a proven track record in leading agile development projects and delivering build/buy IT solutions and equipment.

• Project Management certification (PMI, Prince2), Requirements Engineering (IREB), and Testing certification (ISEB/ISTQB); experience with agile development.
• Degree in business or engineering, ideally in transportation or project management.
• Understanding of transportation, especially airline operations (maintenance, crewing, ticketing, scheduling, and regulatory frameworks).
• Fluent in English; broad IT and systems knowledge relevant to transportation.
• Highly motivated team player with flexible, proactive working style.
• Diplomatic, culturally sensitive, patient, with strong presentation, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• Customer-focused with a positive, solution-oriented attitude.