Project Director

About the Position

Project Director

• Location: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time

Hitachi Solutions Europe is a global Digital, Data and Technology consultancy, specializing in end-to-end transformation. We are seeking a Project Director to lead large-scale business transformation projects and manage strategic client relationships.

Be part of our Hitachi family

We emphasize collaboration, open communication, and transparency. Our learning culture and flat hierarchy are our recipes for success. Our employees enjoy competitive compensation packages, pension and benefits plans, and a comprehensive career development programme.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Engagement: Responsible for the strategic engagement on projects of any scale with client executive stakeholders.
• Risk Management: Identify strategic risks to projects and oversee their mitigation.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure the appropriate quality of all work orders and change requests relating to their projects.
• Approval and Oversight: Approve project deliverables, including forecasts, timesheet management, PSRs, etc.
• Representation: Represent the Hitachi Solutions Delivery Team in strategic prospect meetings.
• Communication: Articulate the content of reports to client executives and communicate key messages and implications.
• Project Planning: Assess and validate complex project plans based on Hitachi’s Consensus methodology.
• Client Relationships: Act as a key player in client C-level relationships, advising senior client staff on best practice, risk mitigation, and strategic challenges.
• Conflict Resolution: Lead the resolution of conflict situations and call on the support of the Hitachi Executive team when necessary.
• Internal Processes: Own other internal Hitachi processes when necessary and lead initiatives and improvements within the delivery team.

Requirements

• Project Management: Extensive experience delivering and leading large-scale, multi-million-pound business applications, digital, cloud, ERP, and data transformation programmes within complex organizational environments.
• Methodologies: Experience delivering programmes using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, ideally in both the public and private sectors.
• Leadership: Effectively manages large and diverse teams, while carrying additional Hitachi business leadership accountabilities.
• Communication: Provides support and guidance to senior personnel, engaging Senior Management and HR where appropriate.
• Relationship Building: Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining relationships with senior executives within both Hitachi and client organizations.
• Business Acumen: High levels of business acumen, and commercial astuteness.

We Offer

• Competitive compensation packages (incl. bonuses)
• Pension and benefits plans
• Work/Life balance
• Comprehensive career development programme
• Home working with regular visits to our or customer’s offices

About the Company

Hitachi Solutions Europe is a global Digital, Data and Technology consultancy, specializing in end-to-end transformation. We build services that are user-centred and accessible, designed by our brilliant agile teams, capable of harnessing the power of the latest technologies. We are committed to Microsoft technologies, with a mission to revolutionize modern businesses.

Diversity and Inclusion at Hitachi Solutions

Diversity is the wellspring of our innovation and our growth engine. We believe that creativity is fuelled by diversity. To be truly user-centric, we need to ensure that the teams developing products and services are representative of the communities they serve. Our collective success is achieved by fostering and respecting our employees’ and customer’s individualities coming together as One Team. Hitachi strives to create an environment not only where genders, races, cultures, sexual orientations, and identities can work together, but where the beliefs and views of those participating feel equally represented.

Beware of scams

Our recruiting team may communicate with candidates via our @hitachisolutions.com domain email address and/or via our SmartRecruiters (Applicant Tracking System) [email protected] domain email address regarding your application and interview requests. All offers will originate from our @hitachisolutions.com domain email address. If you receive an offer or information from someone purporting to be an employee of Hitachi Solutions from any other domain, it may not be legitimate.

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