Project Director

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Solutions Europe is seeking a senior Delivery Team professional to oversee strategic engagement on projects, manage risk, and ensure governance quality across multiple programmes. You will chair client meetings, validate plans, and drive consensus on deliverables with executive stakeholders.

The role requires deep experience in large-scale transformations, leadership of diverse teams, and strong collaboration with Hitachi and client leadership to deliver successful outcomes.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering and leading large-scale business applications and digital transformation programmes.
• Experience with Agile and Waterfall methodologies in both public and private sectors.
• Proven ability to engage senior management and HR around project governance and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Own strategic engagement on projects with client executive stakeholders.
• Identify strategic risks and oversee their mitigation.
• Ensure quality of all work orders and change requests and suggest enhancements.
• Approve project deliverables, forecasts, and timesheets, challenging content when needed.
• Represent the Delivery Team in strategic meetings covering governance and risk.
• Articulate reports to client executives and communicate key messages and implications.

Skills

Team leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Governance

Risk management

Executive communication

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.
• 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.

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.