Project Director

Hitachi Solutions; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Solutions Europe Limited is a global digital, data and technology consultancy partnering with Microsoft and cloud services. We lead end-to-end transformation with agile teams and a client-centric approach.

The role focuses on strategic engagement with client executives, governance, risk mitigation, and delivering complex programmes while shaping consensus and driving continual improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale, multi-million pound implementations
• Proven ability to engage senior management and HR as needed
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships with senior executives

Responsibilities

• Responsible for strategic engagement on projects of any scale with client executive stakeholders.
• Identify strategic risks to projects and oversee their mitigation.
• Oversee and ensure quality of all work orders and change requests; suggest enhancements where needed.
• Approve project deliverables including forecasts, timesheets, PSRs; challenge content for accuracy.
• Represent Delivery Team in strategic prospect meetings covering governance and risk.
• Articulate report content to client executives and communicate key messages.
• Assess and validate complex project plans based on Hitachi’s Consensus methodology.
• Advise senior client staff on best practice governance and risk mitigation.
• Lead resolution of conflict situations; coordinate with Hitachi Executive team as needed.
• Own internal Hitachi processes (Work Order approval, Change Request approval) when requested.

Skills

Executive stakeholder management

Strategic risk management

Governance & quality assurance

Project delivery leadership

Client relationship management

Business acumen

Job description

Hitachi Solutions Europe is a global Digital, Data and Technology consultancy, Microsoft Inner Circle and Cloud Services partner,specialisingin end-to-end transformation. We build services that are usercentredand 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 torevolutionisemodern businesses.

Hitachi Solutions offers competitive compensation packages (incl. bonuses), pension and benefits plans. Work/Life balance is an essential part of our culture, and all our employees are home workers, although you will be expected to come into our or customer’s offices regularly. We operate a comprehensive career development programme that includes mentoring and training plans to ensure that you will continue to grow and develop your career at Hitachi.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the strategic engagement on projects of any scale with client executive stakeholders.
• Responsible for identifying strategic risks to projects and overseeing their mitigation.
• Responsible for overseeing and ensuring the appropriate quality of all work orders and change requests relating to their projects, as well as suggesting enhancements where these fall short of enabling the document to operate as a firm foundation for the project.
• Responsible for the approval of project deliverables, including forecasts, timesheet management, PSRs, etc., and is able to challenge the content of these in instances where consistency, accuracy, and completeness are compromised.
• Represents the Hitachi Solutions Delivery Team in strategic prospect meetings, where discussions cover governance best practice, strategic and business risk, amongst other topics.
• Responsible for articulating the content of reports to client executives, proactively identifying and communicating key messages and implications.
• Responsible for assessing and validating complex project plans based on Hitachi’s Consensus methodology, including the necessary deliverables. Able to articulate the benefits and structure of Consensus to both internal and client teams, champion best practice governance, and identify candidate areas for improvement or development of Consensus.
• Acts as a key player in client C-level relationships, able to inform and advise senior client staff on best practice, risk mitigation, and strategic challenges.
• Responsible for leading the resolution of conflict situations, while recognising when it is necessary to call on the support of the Hitachi Executive team.
• Project Directors are recognised for their ability to own other internal Hitachi processes (Work Order approval, Change Request approval, etc.) when necessary and when requested by the Head of Delivery, and are expected to lead and direct initiatives and improvements within the delivery team.

Qualifications

• Effectively manages large and diverse teams, while carrying additional Hitachi business leadership accountabilities.
• Proven track record in leading large‑scale, multi-million pound implementation programmes within complex organisational environments
• Provides support and guidance to senior personnel, engaging Senior Management and HR where appropriate.
• Significant, demonstrable experience in managing large-scale business applications programmes and projects across a range of industries.
• Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining relationships with senior executives within both Hitachi and client organisations.
• High levels of business acumen, and commercial astuteness.

Additional Information

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Diversity and Inclusion at Hitachi Solutions

Diversity is the wellspring of our innovation and our growth engine, and 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 asOne 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.