Strategic Project Manager

About the role

Emerging Travel Group is looking for a structured, execution-driven Strategic Project Manager to lead complex market expansion and business localization initiatives across multiple regions and business units. The role turns ambiguous business needs into structured execution plans, business cases, governance frameworks and operational launches. It is remote, within the Commercial department, and relies on strong C-level support and dedicated resources from Finance, Legal, Tax, Product, Payments, Commercial, Marketing and Analytics.

Key responsibilities

• Develop business cases, ROI assessments and operational models for market expansion, and turn vague requests into implementation plans and launch criteria with Finance, Legal, Product and Business stakeholders.
• Present business cases and proposals to C-level stakeholders, including trade-off framing and go/no-go recommendations.
• Lead market expansion and localization initiatives from planning to operational launch, coordinating Product, Finance, Legal, Payments, Operations and Commercial teams.
• Manage timelines, dependencies, escalations and accountability across parallel workstreams.
• Align senior stakeholders, maintain governance and reporting, and set up scalable project documentation, decision logs and post-launch performance monitoring.

Required profile

• 4-8+ years of experience in strategic project management, business operations, transformation or similar cross-functional execution roles, with a proven track record of leading complex initiatives end-to-end.
• Ability to work in high-ambiguity environments with many stakeholders, including C-level.
• Strong ownership mentality, structured thinking and attention to detail.

Required skills

• Advanced Excel.
• Tools mentioned: Confluence, Miro, Gantt, YouTrack, Slack, Tableau, Trino.

What we offer

• Flexible schedules and the option to work remotely.
• Internal adaptation, training and soft-skills programmes, plus partial compensation for external training and conferences.
• Corporate English school and corporate prices on hotels and travel.
• An extra non-working day (MyTime Day Off).