Projects Manager | Product Development & Design

Projects Manager | Product Development & Design – Qatar Airways

Job Title:

Projects Manager | Product Development & Design

Reference #: 250000KO

Location:

Qatar – Doha

Job Family:
Corporate & Commercial

Closing Date: 31-Dec-2025

At Qatar Airways, we craft cutting‑edge inflight products, enhance passenger comfort, and drive innovation in aviation design. From concept to launch, our Product Development and Design (PDD) Team collaborates with industry leaders to create products that set new standards in travel.

If you are passionate about innovation, customer experience, technology, and design, this is your chance to make a lasting impact in the aviation industry.

As the Project Manager within the Strategy Team, you will play a critical role in driving the execution of strategic initiatives across technology, product innovation, and service enhancement. You’ll ensure alignment between strategic vision and delivery, focusing on governance, planning, and cross‑functional coordination.

• Support the implementation of governance frameworks for customer experience and product development initiatives, ensuring adherence to organisational standards, processes and compliance requirements.
• Develop and manage integrated programme plans, timelines and milestones across inflight experience domains (e.g. cabin interiors, IFE, connectivity, F&B, amenities, service).
• Coordinate activities across product, design, technology and operations teams and monitor dependencies and adjust schedules to mitigate risks and delays.
• Track progress against strategic roadmaps and delivery targets and maintain dashboards and reporting tools to provide visibility to leadership and stakeholders.
• Analyse programme performance and recommend corrective actions where needed.
• Identify, assess and monitor risks across programmes and facilitate risk mitigation planning and issue resolution ensuring escalation of critical risks to leadership with recommended actions.
• Support resource planning and allocation across concurrent initiatives by monitoring capacity to ensure efficient delivery and coordinate with HR and functional leads for staffing needs.
• Maintain comprehensive records of programme decisions, actions and outcomes and develop reporting templates to support transparency and accountability and ensure knowledge transfer and continuity across programme phases.
• Act as a point of contact for programme‑related communications and updates and prepare summary reports, dashboards and presentations for internal stakeholders.
• Facilitate cross‑functional collaboration and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Align programme execution with strategic goals of the Product Development Division, supporting feasibility assessments for new concepts and technologies and enable delivery of innovation initiatives through structured programme support.
• Perform other department duties related to your position as directed by the Head of the Department.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with minimum 7+ years of experience in program or project management, ideally within strategy, innovation or technology environments.
• Proficiency in programme planning, milestone tracking and resource coordination.
• Experience managing cross‑functional delivery across design, product, technology and operations.
• Familiarity with stage‑gate, agile or hybrid delivery models.
• Skilled in developing dashboards, status reports and executive summaries.
• Proficiency in tools such as Power BI, Excel or Smartsheet for tracking programme health.
• Ability to interpret programme data and communicate performance trends to leadership.

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