Principal Technical Program Manager (Connected Trip)

Join as a Principal Program Manager (Orchestration Lead) for the Connected Trip initiative. In this strategic role, you will partner with the Connected Trip Product Vice President and leadership team to shape critical portfolio choices, align senior leaders across travel verticals and business functions, and turn strategic ambition into coordinated execution and measurable results.

Responsibilities

• You will have the opportunity to combine executive-level influence with hands-on leadership, shaping how delivers seamless end-to-end travel experiences and unlocks commercial growth at scale. - Align the leadership team around a shared Connected Trip and Connected Growth ambition, strategic narrative, measurable goals and portfolio priorities. - Orchestrate one integrated portfolio across travel verticals and business functions; make dependencies, capacity constraints and trade-offs visible, and recommend what to accelerate, defer, stop or redirect. - Drive value from priority end-to-end journeys, ensuring shared foundations and cross-functional launch readiness translate into adoption, customer experience and commercial impact, not just technical delivery. - 15+ years of experience leading complex, cross-functional programmes or portfolios in large, matrixed organisations - Executive-level communication skills, with the ability to create concise narratives that connect strategy, progress and impact to decisions and next steps - Experience designing practical governance, decision forums and leadership routines that create visibility, accountability and follow-through - Proven ability to align senior leaders around a shared strategy and turn ambiguity into clear portfolio priorities and measurable outcomes across multiple delivery horizons - Financial fluency across business cases, investment choices, budget and P&L implications, expected returns and value realisation - Strong customer and commercial judgement, grounded in end-to-end experiences, adoption, retention, partner value and competitive dynamics - Strong judgement in fast-moving, ambiguous environments, with the ability to act on incomplete information, anticipate risks and escalate decisively when needed - Credibility and influence with VP-level leaders and senior stakeholders across product, technology and business functions, building trust and resolving ambiguity without relying on formal authority