Rail Change & Claims Manager

hitachi; København; On-site; DKK 700,000 - 950,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work (40/60)

Pension

6 weeks of holidays

Canteen

Job summary

Hitachi Rail Denmark A/S in Copenhagen, Denmark, is seeking a Change Manager to oversee change and claim processes across projects, ensuring timeliness, accuracy and compliance with governance. The role coordinates technical, schedule, cost, risk, procurement, and site impact assessments while preparing substantiation packs and negotiation briefs.

The candidate will apply ethical conduct, support dispute mitigation and drive escalation decisions within the governance framework.

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 and resistance to stress 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

Commercial management

Rail/Infrastructure

Stakeholder coordination

Negotiation

Documentation

Job description

Hitachi Rail Denmark A/S in Copenhagen, Denmark, is seeking a Change Manager to oversee change and claim processes across projects, ensuring timeliness, accuracy and compliance with governance. The role coordinates technical, schedule, cost, risk, procurement, and site impact assessments while preparing substantiation packs and negotiation briefs.

The candidate will apply ethical conduct, support dispute mitigation and drive escalation decisions within the governance framework.