Project Director

Hitachi, Ltd.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home working

Bonuses

Career development program

Job summary

Hitachi Solutions Europe is seeking a senior delivery leader to oversee multi‑million‑pound programmes, manage client executives, and drive governance across complex projects in the UK. You will champion best practices and mitigate risks while guiding project teams and senior stakeholders.

The role requires deep experience in both Agile and Waterfall delivery, strong commercial acumen, and a proven ability to build durable relationships with clients and Hitachi teams.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering large-scale business applications and multi-million-pound programmes across complex organisations.
• Proven ability to lead large teams and manage senior stakeholders.
• Experience with Agile and Waterfall methodologies in public and private sectors.

Responsibilities

• Owns strategic engagement on projects with client executive stakeholders.
• Identifies strategic risks and oversees mitigation.
• Ensures quality of work orders and change requests; suggests improvements.
• Approves deliverables, forecasts, and timesheets; challenges content when needed.
• Represents Delivery Team in strategic prospect meetings with governance discussions.
• Articulates report content to client executives and communicates key messages.
• Leads consensus-based project plans and governance practices.
• Advises senior client staff on best practice, risk, and challenges.
• Leads resolution of conflicts with support from Hitachi Executive.

Skills

Team leadership

Large-scale programmes

Agile & Waterfall

Executive stakeholder management

Business acumen

Relationship building

Job description

Company 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.

Be part of our Hitachi family

We place value on collaboration, open communication, and transparency. We emphasise the importance of team spirit, cohesion, and appreciation – And through our talented people, innovative culture, and technical and business expertise, we deliver game changing outcomes every day. Our learning culture and flat hierarchy are our recipes for success. But don´t take our word for it – Have a look at what our employees are saying: Hitachi Solutions: Recruiting the best talent and offering outstanding career opportunities (hitachi-solutions.co.uk)

What to expect, your benefits

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.
• Extensive experience delivering and leading large-scale, multi-million-pound business applications, digital, cloud, ERP, and data transformation programmes within complex organisational environments.
• Experience delivering programmes using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, ideally in both the public and private sectors.
• 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

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.