Senior Project Manager in London

Hitachi Solutions Europe is a global Digital, Data and Technology consultancy, Microsoft Gold partner and Cloud Services partner, specialising in end-to-end transformation. As a global consultancy firm working across the private and public sectors, we specialise in Dynamics 365 Business Applications, Power Platform, including Azure, Application Modernisation and Data & Analytics. Our highly skilled team help drive improvements, creating efficiency and growth within organisations. We are committed to Microsoft technologies, with a mission to revolutionise modern businesses. To achieve this we employ the best, most dedicated talent to deliver outstanding technology solutions to both our local and global clients.

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the overall, and day-to-day delivery of large-scale Dynamics 365 projects to time, quality and budget in accordance with the contract.
• Responsible for project scope, and adhering to the published methodology and project controls.
• Responsible for the preparation and communication of most project deliverables, including forecasts, timesheet management, project status reports (PSRs), etc, in full dialogue with the Project Director.
• Responsible for the management of large project budget and associated communication, such as forecasting and client reporting.
• Planning, delegating, monitoring and controlling all of the Project Team’s activities in accordance with the project plan.
• Responsible for ensuring that the project plan is resourced throughout all phases of the project lifecycle, and ensuring that all resourcing demands for the project are managed via the agreed request process.
• Responsible for ensuring that the project plan can be delivered when considering all external factors, and taking any remedial actions, and escalating as necessary.
• Responsible for preparing and presenting large, complex change requests, in dialogue with the Project Director, in order to govern changes in scope, cost and time, and be able to resolve minor conflict situations.
• Ensuring that the acceptance process is followed, and that all deliverables, milestones, and project phases are accepted, and that written evidence is obtained by the client before proceeding.
• Act as a point of contact for the Project Team and elevate any required actions, issues, or risks to the Steering Group.
• Responsible for ensuring that all identified risks, issues, and actions are captured, and contain the appropriate level of detail, including ownership, priority and date.
• Responsible for maintaining an awareness of the financial status of the client’s account and support Finance with any debt collection and/or debt recovery activities.
• Responsible for mentoring and developing Project Managers under their span of control or as advised by the Programme Director.
• Execute assigned responsibilities in a manner consistent with Hitachi Solutions Europe Ltd’s Quality Management Policy.

Qualifications

• Candidates should exhibit strong leadership qualities and be results-oriented; be able to manage large teams (of up to 25 people), providing support, guidance, and motivation for team members, identifying where additional time needs to be set aside to provide additional support, and escalating to the Project Director when progress is not made.
• Candidates should be highly experienced at working with defined project methodologies and governance models, and are able to articulate the benefits and structure of the methodology to the team and the client.
• Candidates should be highly resilient, structured, and disciplined, with strong attention to detail in complex and fast-paced environments.
• Candidates should be able to produce high quality and professional written documentation including (but not limited to) work orders, contracts, and client presentations.
• Candidates should demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, with proven success working alongside senior stakeholders and leadership teams.
• Candidates should demonstrate high levels of commercial acumen, with exceptional conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
• Candidates should have strong budget and risk management skills.
• Candidates who have already experienced the end-to-end delivery of large projects are preferred.