Hybrid Change & Claims Manager - Rail Projects

Hitachi, Ltd.; København; Hybrid; DKK 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Hybrid work environment

6 weeks of holidays

Canteen

Job summary

Hitachi Rail is seeking a Change Manager to oversee variation and change control, in a governance framework that coordinates across project disciplines. The role focuses on maintaining change/claim logs, preparing substantiation, and supporting negotiations aligned with contract management and governance standards.

Responsibilities include coordinating technical, schedule and cost impacts, applying the code of conduct, and driving escalation when needed.

Qualifications

• Strong claims, change-control and commercial management experience in rail, infrastructure, systems or construction projects.
• Competence in delay/disruption narratives, pricing logic, contemporaneous evidence and negotiation preparation.
• Ability to work with technical teams to produce defensible substantiation.
• Resilience under time constraints, customer challenge and high-value negotiation pressure.
• Detail orientation, assertiveness and ethical commercial conduct.

Responsibilities

• Operate the variation/change and claims registers, ensuring every potential event has an owner, deadline, evidence path and commercial strategy.
• Coordinate technical, schedule, cost, risk, procurement and site impact assessments with the responsible disciplines.
• Prepare change submissions, claims narratives, substantiation packs and negotiation briefs in alignment with Contract Manager and Legal Support.
• Apply the Hitachi Code of Conduct in role-specific decisions, including ethical escalation, anti-bribery discipline, confidentiality, data protection, fair supplier/customer conduct and transparent records.
• Controls variation, claim and change workflow inside approved Governance.
• Can launch impact assessments and recommend escalation/decision papers.

Skills

Change control

Claims management

Commercial management

Delay/disruption narratives

Negotiation preparation

Job description

Hitachi Rail is seeking a Change Manager to oversee variation and change control, in a governance framework that coordinates across project disciplines. The role focuses on maintaining change/claim logs, preparing substantiation, and supporting negotiations aligned with contract management and governance standards.

Responsibilities include coordinating technical, schedule and cost impacts, applying the code of conduct, and driving escalation when needed.