IT Project Manager

Location: Naples, Italy. Hybrid working model with 2 days per week remotely. Right to work in Italy required.

Gross annual salary: €45,000–€52,000 per year, paid over 14 monthly installments.

Company

hirify.global is a cruise brand within MSC Cruises, operating in an international and matrix environment with a focus on inclusive growth, wellbeing, and professional development.

What you will do

• Analyse business needs and define scope, objectives, requirements, deliverables, milestones, acceptance criteria, and implementation plans for IT and digital initiatives.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, resource assumptions, budgets, forecasts, governance records, and status reports.
• Coordinate business owners, IT product and technical teams, architecture, security, vendors, Finance, Procurement, and other stakeholders.
• Monitor risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, actions, change requests, budgets, costs, forecasts, and financial variances.
• Facilitate project meetings, steering committees, stage gates, portfolio reviews, testing, deployment readiness, change adoption, operational handover, benefits tracking, and closure.
• Validate compliance with project, architecture, cybersecurity, procurement, financial, data, and change governance requirements, contributing to PMO standards and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 7–10 years of overall professional experience, including 5 years in IT project management, PMO, digital delivery, technology consulting, or a comparable role. Experience must include independent responsibility for complex analysis and delivery coordination within low- to medium-complexity projects or significant workstreams.
• Experience delivering technology-enabled change in an international or matrix organization.
• Fluent English required. Clear communication with senior, technical, and business stakeholders is essential.
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Practical experience with Jira, ServiceNow, Microsoft Project, or equivalent delivery and workflow tools.
• Degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Business Administration, Economics, or a similar discipline.
• Strong analytical thinking, planning, financial awareness, stakeholder management, written and verbal communication, problem solving, negotiation, prioritization, and independent working skills.
• Ability to escalate material risks and decisions appropriately.

Nice to have

• Experience in cruise, travel, hospitality, transportation, or another operationally complex industry.
• Italian language skills.
• Power BI, data analysis, process mapping, and executive reporting experience.
• Recognized project management or agile certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum, or equivalent.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent contract under the applicable Italian collective labour agreement for shore-based personnel in privately operated shipping companies.
• Two remote working days per week, flexible working hours, and €8 meal vouchers for each on-site working day.
• Welfare and wellbeing initiatives, health insurance, productivity award, learning opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme, and MSC group discounts and partnerships.
• Inclusive environment with diverse perspectives, continuous learning, career development, regular feedback, and wellbeing support.