Francisco Canovas Valles

at Hotelbeds
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(386) 825-5501
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Greater Palma de Mallorca Metropolitan Area, ES

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Experience

    • Spain
    • Leisure, Travel & Tourism
    • 700 & Above Employee
      • Apr 2022 - Present

      Responsible for Beyond the Bed’s (BtB) Product planning and execution all through the lifecycle of the business. The role is inclusive of defining the vision for the Product, collaborating with other leadership teams from the Engineering, Commercial, and Operations functions. BtB is Hotelbeds’ multi-million brand for sourcing and distributing Transfers, Activities, Tickets and Car Hire with a portfolio of over 20K products spanning over 700 destinations and +200 countries. Main Accountabilities1. Develop a Product vision and strategy in collaboration with stakeholders aligned and supportive of Hotelbeds’ overall Business roadmap.2. Define and oversee the Product roadmap and ensure deliverables agreed with the Commercial teams are met. 3. Establish a core trio of Product, Engineering and Commercial, acting as one team: ensure the product needs are translated into requirements and drive consensus within the different areas. 4. Ensure collaboration and lead to clear and efficient Product planning and prioritization within an effective overall SAFe Product development framework.5. Speak with data and conduct relevant product research. Set-up and manage accurate product KPis by establishing competitive intelligence market analyses. Ensure the post-launch performance is up to par and aligned with expected values for revenue and profits.6. Evangelize both internally and externally about the team's contribution to business achievements. Promote the product and advocate for its value and benefits within the company strategy.7. Act as a mentor to direct reports and wider team, coaching them and helping them to drive performance and to set the highest standards in terms of hiring, training, development, and talent retention.Main Challenges1. Contribute to define and promote a clear business strategy around Beyond the Bed Product2. Create a strong relationship between Technology, Business and Product3. Build-up a new fully functioning Product team Show less

      • Apr 2018 - Apr 2022

      Build, direct and lead a senior Project and Programme Management team responsible for managing, initiating, overseeing the successful delivery of the Technology projects and Business Cases in all aspects (definition, objectives, budget, team, planning) ensuring that the technology strategic results are set and achieved in the most efficient way.Main accountabilities: - Build up and daily management of the (senior) project managers team. - Ensure on a daily basis that the full Technology project roadmap objectives are met and all (large scale, complex and/or company critical programs of) technical projects are successfully delivered. - Setup and coordination of Business Cases between Finance, Procurement and Technology owners, managing the approval routes (according to approval matrix). - Manage stakeholder expectations/communications on all company management levels - coordinate escalations, steering boards and needed decision making. - Ensuring and support the optimal use and assignment of technology resources (people, time, budget). - Manage and resolve (escalated) risks, dependencies and changes within and towards other projects, departments, initiatives. - Support and participate in Technology Strategy, Roadmap, Performance definitions and status reviews.Main challenges: - Setup and build a new functioning delivery team. - Define, control, manage, influence, IT strategic project objectives towards internal Technology and external stakeholders (Product, Business, Finance, Suppliers). - Manage top-level stakeholder´s conflicts of interests. - Execute and control IT strategic projects in a period of structural, functional and procedural transformation. Show less

      • Oct 2016 - Apr 2018

      Initiate, conduct, oversee and control on a daily basis the successful delivery of the programs of Technology projects in all aspects - objectives, budget, team, planning - ensuring that the technology strategic results are achieved in the most efficient way.Main accountabilities: - Initiate, manage and oversee delivery of large scale, complex and/or company critical programs of technical projects. - Ensure on a daily basis that the assigned projects´ objectives and business case are met and that the projects deliver successfully - Manage stakeholder expectations on all management levels, coordinate escalations and needed decision making. - Ensure the optimal use and assignment of resources (people, time, budget) and technology processes to deliver the project’s objectives. - Lead the project teams – including managing the Project managers - and external suppliers within a program of projects context. - Provide timely reports and appropriate communications to all stakeholders. - Manage risks, dependencies and changes within and towards other projects, departments, initiatives. Show less

      • Sep 2015 - Oct 2016

      Project management across various functional departments and business lines, mainly Infrastructure, Coporate IT, Security and Innovation projects. Focused on transformation projects to be in readiness for the development and deployment of several initiatives through the company-wide systems, managing the expectation of all the IT senior stakeholders.Projects: - Annual Infrastructure Capacity Plan (Corporate IT and Production Datacenters). - Disaster Recovery Plan Implementation. - Cloud ready Programme. - Production Datacenters Migration Programme. - Desing and Implementation of the IT Innovation Framework. - Internal Systems Simplification (ERP). Show less

    • Member of the Board of Directors
      • Apr 2013 - Sep 2015

      UNIRED is an association created in 2006 which integrates the different public and private companies acting as Radio and TV Operators in the different Spanish Regions (Comunidades Autónomas). Main responsibilities were: - Active participation in meetings of the Board of Directors. - Define lines of action and strategic plan of the association. - Hold meetings with the main public entities and defend the position of UNIRED memebers versus the different regulatory bodies: Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, Secretary of State for Telecommunications, National Commission of Markets and Competition, Telecommunications Market Commission. Show less

    • Government Administration
    • 500 - 600 Employee
    • Managing Director - Multimedia de les Illes Balears S.A.
      • Nov 2011 - Sep 2015

      Multimedia IB is a public company within the Illes Balears regional Ministry of the Presidency in charge of providing the TV Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), and to operate the TETRA network for the security and emergency corps (TetraIB). My role as MD was focused on ensuring the end-to-end implementation, deployment and operation of the TetraIB network, and to implement the Digital Dividend (3G to 4G transition) across the 4 main islands. Main responsibilities were: - Design and definition of the annual strategy and budget plan. - Overseeing and decision making on the technical projects’ portfolio. - Presentation of the strategic plan, budget and projects portfolio to the Board. - Rationalization and optimization of the functional structure and the technical department. - Coordination of the financial, technical and legal departments. - Direct reporting to the Regional Government’s Vice-President. Show less

    • Spain
    • Strategic Management Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
      • Feb 2010 - Nov 2011

      • Oct 2009 - Feb 2010

Education

  • Dublin City University
    MSc in Electronic Commerce and Security, Computing
    2008 - 2009
  • Mälardalens högskola
    MSc Thesis, Artificial Intelligence and Web Technologies
    2007 - 2008
  • Universitat de les Illes Balears
    MSc in Computer Engineering, Information Technologies
    2005 - 2007
  • Universitat de les Illes Balears
    BSc in Computer Engineering, Information Technologies
    2001 - 2005

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