Location: Singapore
About Us
Jeppesen ForeFlight is the industry leader in aviation software and data, serving commercial airlines, military operators, business aviation, and general aviation pilots worldwide. We are seeking a Senior Project Manager I based in Singapore.
One third of pilots and cabin crew worldwide are flying with schedules produced by Jeppesen ForeFlight innovative solutions. One million pilots use our navigation products, and every day some 70,000 routes around the world are planned with the help of Jeppesen ForeFlight.
At Jeppesen Foreflight, you will work with breakthrough technology, exciting customers and fantastic colleagues from around the world. We solve some of the most challenging optimization problems in the world for our customers and our culture is characterized by creativity, professionalism and self-organization within an open and flexible work environment. With employees from over 10 countries at our office in central Singapore, Jeppesen ForeFlight is one of the best IT employers in the Singapore island.
We believe that our employees must be allowed to dream big and have fun for us to remain one of the top companies in the industry. To get the best out of each talent, we encourage and enable our employees to continuously develop and explore. We are focusing on continuous improvements and innovations to bring more value to our clients in the future.
About The Position
Jeppesen ForeFlight is seeking a customer-facing Senior Project Manager (non-management position) reporting to the Manager of Crew Implementation in our Singapore location. As the selected candidate, you will successfully manage multiple customer software implementation projects across the Asia Pacific region through effective planning, scheduling and controlling. Travel is expected, both between company offices globally, as well as to various customer locations.
This position is hybrid. This means that the selected candidate will be required to perform some work onsite at one of the listed location options. This is at the hiring team's discretion and could potentially change in the future.
Position Responsibilities
- Project Management: Lead and manage customer software implementation projects, ensuring delivery within scope, budget, and timeline while adapting to Jeppesen's best practices framework.
- Scrum Master and Agile Practices: Act as Scrum Master for project teams, facilitating Agile ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives) and coaching teams and stakeholders on Agile principles to improve collaboration and delivery.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate across departments, vendors, and partners to ensure successful implementation and support while driving the adoption of Project Management best practices.
- Risk and Issue Management: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks and issues, implementing corrective actions to maintain project progress.
- Scope and Change Management: Monitor and manage project scope to minimize scope creep, utilizing change management procedures to capture additional work and ensure proper billing.
- Communication: Effectively communicate project updates, progress, and expectations to internal and external stakeholders.
Basic Qualifications / Competencies (Required)
- 3 to 5 years of external customer project management experience.
- Experience managing moderate complex software implementation projects.
- Proficiency in Scrum/Agile methodologies with enterprise-level application development projects.
- Strong business acumen and relationship-building skills.
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
- Ability to travel up to 20%.
Preferred Qualifications / Competencies (Desired)
- Bachelor's degree or higher with degree in Computer Science/Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, Science & Technology or equivalent
- Aviation industry experience, ideally in crew planning solutions.
- PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), or equivalent.
Why You Should Join
At Jeppesen ForeFlight, we know you want a rewarding career. To do that, you need challenging projects, a good work environment, and awesome coworkers. We believe in our employees and empower them to make a direct impact on our products and services messaging. Our benefits package includes but is not limited to the following:
- Medical insurance with employer paid health premiums for employees and dependents
- Dental insurance with employer paid health premiums for employees
- Employer paid life and total permanent disability insurance
- CPF retirement savings plan with employer contributions (per local regulation)
- 16 weeks of maternity leave (per local regulation)
- 4 weeks of paternity leave (per local regulation)
- Employee Assistance Program
- 2 days off to volunteer annually
- Employee referral program
