Senior Project Manager – Business & Risk Analysis

Role overview

The Senior Project Manager – Business & Risk Analysis is responsible for the governance, project management, business analysis and risk management of initiatives within the Tech Standards sub-department. The role partners with teams across Booking.com to facilitate work between product, technology, business units and centralized functions.

The role combines senior project management with structured business and risk analysis. It ensures that proposed changes to planning, reporting and Jira tooling are grounded in business needs, supported by evidence, and assessed for their broader impact before implementation. The Senior Project Manager helps teams scope and plan initiatives by documenting the project goal, KPIs, roadmap, requirements and key deliverables, while ensuring that decisions, dependencies and outcomes are transparent to stakeholders.

The Senior Project Manager works collaboratively with stakeholders at all levels, including Director level, and may engage external vendors or stakeholders where required. The role helps teams mitigate risks and dependencies, maintain progress against milestones, and ensure that roadmaps and plans remain aligned to agreed business priorities, enterprise strategies and shared objectives.

Key responsibilities

Project Management

• Apply structured project and change management methodologies to lead initiatives from discovery through implementation and handover to business as usual.

  
  

• Own the successful delivery of the end-to-end project lifecycle, including execution, analysis, recommendation, implementation and closure.

  
  

• Independently lead low- to medium-complexity projects with global and cross-functional impact.

  
  

• Drive project scoping and planning by documenting the project goal, KPIs, roadmap, milestones, dependencies and main deliverables.

  
  

• Track and report progress, risks, decisions and dependencies through clear planning and reporting documents.

  
  

• Ensure that projects are closed effectively and that the correct ownership, documentation and operational handover are in place.

  
  

• Apply change management processes and tools to support adoption of changes introduced by a project or initiative.

Business and risk analysis

• Perform detailed risk and impact analysis for proposed changes to tooling, processes, workflows and governance.

  
  

• Think through the second-order impacts of every tooling change before it is handed to PInT for delivery or implementation.

  
  

• Assess how proposed rules, workflows or configuration changes could affect team ways of working, create unnecessary friction, introduce unintended consequences or affect downstream reporting.

  
  

• Identify assumptions, constraints, dependencies and failure modes early, and translate them into practical recommendations and mitigation actions.

  
  

• Balance standardisation with the needs of different teams and business contexts, ensuring that governance decisions are proportionate, evidence-based and workable in practice.

  
  

• Provide clear recommendations to decision-makers, including the expected benefits, trade-offs, risks and implementation considerations.

Requirements

• Translate business needs and operational problems into clear, detailed and actionable technical requirements for PInT and other delivery partners.

  
  

• Define the problem statement, desired outcomes, business rules, user impacts, data requirements, acceptance criteria and implementation considerations.

  
  

• Maintain accurate, accessible and up-to-date project, process, decision and requirements documentation.

  
  

• Establish and maintain a single source of truth so that stakeholders can understand the current state, agreed decisions, requirements, roadmap and ownership.

  
  

• Communicate complex requirements and project insights in a clear and structured way to both technical and non-technical audiences.

  
  

• Data analysis and hypothesis testing

  
  

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