Our people are everything to us. The way they deliver exceptional experiences every day for our customers, for their colleagues. The way they own what they do. Their 'Why's it like that?' curiosity. How they always think of others and work together to get things done. For us, for you, make do will never do. Good enough? Not even close. Come and do the best work of your life alongside lovely colleagues. Come to Saga. 

You will be responsible for the management of projects in the Saga Travel Group (STG).  Working closely with a range of Change professionals and business stakeholders, you will facilitate the delivery of priority initiatives in line with the change request, approval and delivery process.  You will track business cases through the project lifecycle including the impact to benefits. You will manage across functions daily to ensure project milestones and timelines are achieved, tracking issues and managing risk as you go. Ensure that any detriment to the quality, timeline or cost of a project is appropriately escalated. 

Everyday our colleagues deliver exceptional experiences to our customers. We believe exceptional work deserves even more exceptional rewards, that's why we have put together an amazing benefits package for all colleagues. 

We offer total flexibility over where you work – you choose a place that you feel happiest, healthiest and most productive, either from home or in one of our hubs in London, Crawley or Folkestone.

We have an award-winning wellbeing programme, modern family-friendly policies including premature baby leave, enhanced maternity and paternity leave and our unique grandparents’ leave policy.

Benefits available to all colleagues:

• 25 days of paid holiday (with option to purchase more), plus bank holidays that you can use any time of the year and an annual volunteer day on us.
• Free private medical insurance after 1 years' service, including access to a GP, and great levels of income protection and life assurance cover.
• Workplace pension scheme where we match your contributions up to 10%.
• AXA Be Supported.
• A range of reductions and offers from Saga Travel Group as well as leading retailers, travel groups discounts and entertainment companies.

• The management of small and large projects within Saga Travel Group with delivery to agreed time, budget and quality criteria.

• Project management from inception through to supporting benefit realisation.  Projects will have a range or workstreams depending on the project.  

• Creating and maintaining good working relationships with project sponsors, stakeholders and owners.

• Communicating across all levels to enable clear understanding of the strategy behind project needs, design and delivery approach.

• Preparation and presentation of supporting project documentation to senior management across the business.

• Having the ability to support a team of business professionals deployed across a range of projects to achieve excellent standards of productivity and quality.

• Being an effective negotiator, balancing alternatives and seeking win-win solutions.

• Effectively managing project team members and resources, including third parties and suppliers, always maintaining an excellent level of service and ensuring project delivery to time, budget and quality.

• Project governance including creation and maintenance of the project plan, highlight & progress reporting, risk and issue management.

• Completion of Post Implementation Reviews and making recommendations for improvement.

• Business readiness for any project you manage.

• The undertaking of any other duties assigned within reasonable boundaries of your capability.

• Proven experience of successful project delivery.
• Stakeholder management experience.
• Experience working within Travel Industry.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Accountability.
• Ability to work on own initiative.
• Team Player.
• Ability to multitask.

Our Saga Values:

• Precision Pace - Always owning and making things happen. 
• Empathy – Always aware of others. 
• Curiosity – Always asking why.
• Collaboration – Always one team, the Saga team!

At Saga Travel Group, we’re driven by the aim of creating a place where older people are valued for their experiences. We’re a dynamic and forward-looking business with a clear, single-minded purpose: to deliver exceptional experiences every day for our colleagues and customers.

Our values underpin our approach and help guide us. We work with precision, pace, curiosity, empathy and collaboration to create a unique environment for our teams.

The vision for the Saga Travel Group is to build the travel company for the experienced traveller. We already have world-class escorted Saga and Titan touring businesses and now building a new dynamic, digital travel business that will deliver fresh, innovative product.

When you join Saga Travel Group you will work across two leading brands and play a vital role not only in our growth but in our mission to deliver lasting memories for our customers seeing them return again and again.

As an STG colleague you will see that we are committed to treating all employees fairly and to offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement.

We value diversity not just because it is the right thing to do, but because diverse teams perform better. Creating a culture in which everyone feels welcome and offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement is incredibly important to us.

We are an official Disability Confident employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will make reasonable adjustments as required.

We are a member of the 30% Club and partner with Moving Ahead which offers us a fantastic opportunity to take part in a leading, global, cross-company, leadership mentoring scheme to champion female talent.

We are a signatory of the Armed Services Covenant and have received a Silver Award from the Employer Recognition Scheme. 

To all recruitment agencies: Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Talent Acquisition Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Any engagement with employees or provision of CVs to employees within Saga where you have not engaged with the Talent Acquisition Team will be considered speculative and Saga will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner.

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