Business Analyst – Global Project Management

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

HITACHI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India seeks a General Project Management professional to plan, organize, and control resources, schedules, and timing for administrative or business processes within manufacturing. The role bridges business stakeholders with technology teams to drive project success.

You will gather requirements, document processes, and support UAT, training, and rollout from a business perspective across units.

Qualifications

• Experience with global stakeholders and multi-unit application environments.
• Bachelor of Engineering or Business Administration equivalent.
• 6–8 years in Manufacturing or Industrial domains, with at least 4 years in a similar PM role.
• Experience with requirements gathering and deployment.
• Experience integrating SAP and MS 365.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, and control resources, schedules, and costs.
• Liaise between business stakeholders and technology teams.
• Define functional specifications and support UAT and training.
• Ensure compliance with regulations and Hitachi values.

Skills

Requirements gathering

End user engagement

Solution deployment

Stakeholder liaison

Education

Bachelor of Engineering / Business Administration or equivalent

Tools

SAP

MS 365

Job description

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Job ID: R0137720 Date Posted: 2026-07-30 Company Name: HITACHI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED Profession (Job Category): Project/Program Management Job Schedule: Full time Remote: No

Job Description:

The opportunity General Project Management requires general business knowledge to plan, organize, and control resources, procedures, and timing for an administrative or business process including Organizing project teams, assigning individual responsibilities, developing project schedules, and determining resource requirements. Monitoring and reporting on the status of projects including cost, timing, and staffing.

How you’ll make an impact

This is a techno-functional role and will work closely with business stakeholders to understand their needs, objectives, and challenges. Serve as a liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams. Elicit, document, and analyze business requirements, processes, and workflows for project management‑related applications. Support centralized intake of application requests for the Project Management function. Analyze and compare requirements across units to enable reuse, standardization, or justified local deviations. Translate business requirements into clear and concise functional specifications for technical teams, including user story creation. Validate designs to ensure alignment with business requirements and they fulfill the future state of the organization. Facilitate requirement and clarification workshops. Define and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including test planning, execution tracking, defect clarification, and quality reporting. Run training sessions and support application rollout and adoption from a business perspective across operating units. Conduct business process analysis to identify areas for optimization and efficiency enhancement, assisting in the implementation of improvement initiatives. Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines. Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for yourcolleagues and the business.

Your background

• Experience working with global stakeholders and multi‑unit application environments is an advantage
• Bachelor of Engineering / business administration or equivalent
• 6 – 8 years professional experience, minimum 4 years in a similar role in Manufacturing or Industrial domains.
• Demonstrated experience with requirements gathering, solution deployment and end user engagement.
• Experience with integration of various tools such as SAP, MS 365, and others.
• Experience in developing solutions for Project management, Quality or Supply chain function.

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