About the Role
Hitachi Solutions Europe is seeking Senior Project Managers to join their growing Delivery team and contribute to large-scale Dynamics 365 ERP projects.
Responsibilities
- Manage the overall and day-to-day delivery of large-scale Dynamics 365 ERP projects to time, quality, and budget.
- Oversee project scope and adhere to published methodologies and project controls.
- Prepare and communicate project deliverables, including forecasts, timesheet management, and project status reports.
- Manage large project budgets and associated communications, including forecasting and client reporting.
- Plan, delegate, monitor, and control Project Team activities according to the project plan.
- Ensure the project plan is resourced throughout all project lifecycle phases.
- Manage resourcing demands via the agreed request process.
- Ensure the project plan is deliverable considering external factors and take remedial actions.
- Escalate issues and risks as necessary.
- Prepare and present large, complex change requests to govern changes in scope, cost, and time.
- Resolve minor conflict situations.
- Ensure the acceptance process is followed for all deliverables, milestones, and project phases.
- Obtain written client acceptance before proceeding.
- Act as a point of contact for the Project Team and escalate actions, issues, or risks to the Steering Group.
- Ensure all identified risks, issues, and actions are captured with appropriate detail, ownership, priority, and date.
- Maintain awareness of client account financial status and support debt collection activities.
- Mentor and develop Project Managers under their span of control.
- Execute responsibilities consistent with Hitachi Solution Europe Ltd’s Quality Management Policy.
Requirements
- Exhibit strong leadership qualities and be results-oriented.
- Manage large teams (up to 25 people), providing support, guidance, and motivation.
- Identify where additional time needs to be set aside for support and escalate when progress is not made.
- Demonstrable experience managing large-scale ERP implementations, ideally with Dynamics 365.
- Highly experienced working with defined project methodologies and governance models.
- Articulate the benefits and structure of the methodology to the team and client.
- Highly resilient, structured, and disciplined with strong attention to detail in complex and fast-paced environments.
- Produce high-quality and professional written documentation, including work orders, contracts, and client presentations.
- Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills with proven success working alongside senior stakeholders and leadership teams.
- Demonstrate high levels of commercial acumen.
- Possess exceptional conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
- Strong budget and risk management skills.
- Experience in the end-to-end delivery of large projects is preferred.
Skills
- Dynamics 365
- ERP implementations
- Project methodologies
- Governance models
- Written documentation
- Interpersonal skills
- Commercial acumen
- Conflict resolution
- Negotiation skills
- Budget management
- Risk management
Location
- Home workers (with regular travel to office or customer sites)
Work Type
- Home workers
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Experienced
Benefits
- Competitive compensation packages (incl. bonuses)
- Pension plans
- Benefits plans
- Work/Life balance
- Comprehensive career development programme
- Mentoring
- Training plans
About the Company
- Hitachi Solutions Europe is a global Digital, Data and Technology consultancy and a Microsoft Gold partner and Cloud Services partner specializing in end-to-end transformation.
- They work across private and public sectors, specializing in Dynamics 365 Business Applications, Power Platform, Azure, Application Modernisation, and Data & Analytics.
- Their mission is to revolutionize modern businesses using Microsoft technologies.
- They value collaboration, open communication, transparency, team spirit, cohesion, and appreciation.
- They foster an innovative culture and possess technical and business expertise to deliver game-changing outcomes.
- They offer a learning culture and a flat hierarchy.
