Business Applications and Project Manager in Slough

Location: Datchet, Slough

Job ID: R0141950

Date Posted: 2026-08-21

Company Name: HITACHI EUROPE LTD.

Profession (Job Category): Project/Program Management

Job Schedule: Full time

Remote: No

Company Overview

Through its Social Innovation Business that brings together IT, OT (Operational Technology) and products, Hitachi contributes to a harmonized society where the environment, wellbeing, and economic growth are in balance. Hitachi operates globally in four sectors – Digital Systems & Services, Energy, Mobility, and Connective Industries – and the Strategic SIB Business Unit for new growth businesses. With Lumada at its core, Hitachi generates value from integrating data, technology and domain knowledge to solve customer and social challenges.

What you’ll be doing

The Business Applications and Project Manager is responsible for the management, continuous improvement and delivery of business application services across the organisation. Reporting to the Head of Projects and Customer Solutions, this role ensures that key applications are reliable, fit for purpose, well governed and aligned to business priorities. The role combines application management, project management, stakeholder engagement and people management, supporting the full application lifecycle from requirements gathering and solution design through to implementation, testing, release, support and ongoing optimisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and support the organisation’s portfolio of business applications, ensuring availability, usability and alignment with business requirements.
• Directly manage staff within the EDI and SAP Applications teams, providing leadership, coaching, performance support and day‑to‑day guidance.
• Lead application‑related projects, including upgrades, enhancements, integrations, migrations and new system implementations.
• Work with stakeholders to gather requirements, define scope, agree priorities and translate business needs into clear delivery plans.
• Manage project plans, milestones, risks, issues, budgets and dependencies, providing regular reporting to the Head of Projects and Customer Solutions.
• Oversee team workload, priorities and resource allocation across EDI and SAP Applications, ensuring operational support and project delivery commitments are met.
• Coordinate testing, user acceptance, release management, training and post‑go‑live support activities.
• Manage relationships with application vendors and third‑party partners, including service performance, escalations and improvement plans.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement, standardisation, automation and better use of existing systems.

What you bring to the team

• Minimum five years’ experience in application management and project management.
• Good understanding of business applications, enterprise systems and the corporate IT function.
• Experience managing application lifecycles, including support, change, testing, release and continuous improvement.
• Proven ability to deliver projects using structured project management methods; Agile, hybrid or waterfall experience desirable.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across business, IT and supplier teams.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft 365 tools, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and SharePoint.

Benefits Package

• Generous holiday entitlement - with the option to buy up to an additional 5 days per year.
• A Holiday Banking scheme allowing you to bank untaken holiday to use another year.
• Group Personal Pension.
• Private Medical Insurance with self‑funded option to cover family members.
• Employee Assistance Programme available to all employees.
• Personal Accident Insurance.
• Voluntary Benefits including; Cycle To Work scheme, Gym Membership, Dental Insurance with option to include dependent children, Health screening, Dining card.

Our Values

We are proud to say we are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to any factor that doesn’t impact your ability to do the job.