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Awaze

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2019

✈️ Travel

🏪 Marketplace

🏨 Hospitality

Travel • Marketplace • Hospitality

Awaze is a European holiday rental company operating several well-known vacation brands including NOVASOL, Cottages. com, and Hoseasons. It manages and powers over 110,000 properties across 25+ countries, helping guests find and book holiday homes and supporting homeowners. The company emphasizes investment in technology and automation to improve guest experiences and property management, positioning itself as a large marketplace for holiday accommodation in Europe.

📋 Description

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of local office transformation projects from site completion through to operational handover, travelling extensively across the UK with regular overnight stays. • Develop and manage detailed project plans, timelines, budgets and governance across multiple concurrent programmes. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure projects are delivered successfully and on schedule. • Manage contractors, suppliers and external partners to deliver projects safely, on time, within budget and to agreed quality standards. • Monitor capital expenditure, forecast costs and identify opportunities to improve commercial performance without compromising quality. • Ensure every location meets brand standards, operational requirements and delivers an outstanding experience for colleagues, homeowners and guests. • Lead project risk management, proactively resolving issues and providing clear stakeholder communication throughout each project. • Coordinate opening readiness activities, including technology, facilities, operational setup and launch planning. • Capture lessons learned and continuously improve transformation processes to support future growth.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong project management expertise, including planning, governance, risk management and multi-project delivery. • Excellent financial management skills with experience controlling capital budgets, forecasting and commercial negotiations. • Experience managing contractors, suppliers and third-party partners to agreed quality, safety and delivery standards. • Outstanding stakeholder management and influencing skills, with confidence working across senior leadership and cross-functional teams. • Strong organisational skills with exceptional attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities. • Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, solutions-focused approach. • Bonus points if you have experience within hospitality, retail, property or facilities management environments, hold a relevant project management qualification, or have experience within the travel & tourism industry.

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous discounts on holidays across our brands • Flexible working – with the autonomy to work how you work best • Real opportunities to grow, learn and shape your role as well as careers progression vertically or horizontally, cross countries and responsibilities