Function
IoT
Our Company
We’re Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world’s potential. We’re people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what’s now to what’s next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.
Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.
Job description
Meet Our Team:
At Hitachi Energy, our IT Project Management team drives strategic technology initiatives that enable business growth, operational excellence, and digital transformation across global operations. We partner with business leaders, technology teams, vendors, and stakeholders worldwide to successfully deliver complex IT programs and enterprise-scale projects. As an IT Project Manager, you'll play a key role in leading cross-functional teams, managing project delivery, and ensuring technology investments achieve measurable business outcomes.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Lead the end-to-end execution of medium, large, and enterprise-level IT projects and programs.
- Develop and manage project plans, schedules, budgets, resource allocations, and delivery milestones.
- Ensure projects are delivered in accordance with Hitachi Energy project management methodologies, quality standards, financial objectives, and timeline commitments.
- Monitor project progress, resource utilization, dependencies, and overall program health to ensure successful outcomes.
- Manage project financials, including budgeting, forecasting, cost tracking, purchase orders, vendor invoices, and financial reporting.
- Identify, assess, quantify, and mitigate project risks while proactively managing issues and escalation paths.
- Drive stakeholder engagement by building strong relationships with business leaders, technical teams, vendors, and external partners.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for project governance, communications, and executive status reporting.
- Coordinate multiple interdependent projects and ensure alignment across program objectives and business priorities.
- Support organizational change management activities to facilitate successful adoption of new technologies and business processes.
- Integrate vendor activities into project plans, monitor deliverables, and ensure contractual commitments are met.
- Gather, analyze, and report project performance metrics, lessons learned, and portfolio status to leadership teams.
- Ensure adherence to project governance, compliance requirements, and industry best practices throughout the project lifecycle.
- Lead technology planning, implementation, and delivery efforts across global and cross-functional environments.
What You'll Bring to the Team:
- 5+ years of experience managing large-scale IT projects, programs, or enterprise technology initiatives.
- Proven experience delivering projects across global teams and managing full project lifecycles from initiation through closure.
- Strong expertise in project planning, execution, governance, risk management, budgeting, and stakeholder management.
- Hands-on experience using ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM/SPPM) Project Management Module.
- Experience managing project financials, including budgeting, forecasting, vendor management, purchase orders, and cost controls.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office Suite, SharePoint, and advanced Excel reporting.
- Knowledge of SAP procurement processes, including purchase order requests, goods receipts, and vendor invoice management.
- Experience working with Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Gate Model, or hybrid project delivery methodologies.
- Strong communication, presentation, and executive reporting skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, manage competing priorities, and drive successful project outcomes.
- Experience supporting organizational change management initiatives within large enterprise environments.
- Ability to identify and resolve project risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges proactively.
Other Skills:
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
- ITIL 4 certification.
- Lean Six Sigma (L6S) certification.
- Experience managing enterprise digital transformation or business transformation programs.
- Strong understanding of project portfolio management, governance frameworks, and PMO best practices.
- Experience working in global manufacturing, energy, utilities, or industrial technology environments.
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About us
We’re a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into >Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
How we look after you
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.
