This role focuses on overseeing large project operations by facilitating resource allocation and collaboration across departments, while ensuring effective performance monitoring and risk management.
Anforderungen
- •Expert knowledge of Risk Management principles
- •Expert knowledge of Company regulatory environment
- •Expert knowledge of Company tools
- •Deep knowledge of BU/HBU Project execution processes
- •Capability to identify significant risks
- •Understanding of key milestones for effective planning
- •Understanding of full cost model structure
- •Ability to understand legal and contractual requirements
- •Capacity to support Tendering and Execution team
- •Ability to analyze and synthesize large amounts of data
- •Ability to foster a feedback culture
- •Ability to produce qualitative training material
- •Ability to get commitment across the organization
- •Advanced communication skills for collaboration
- •High level organization skills with attention to details
- •Experience in Project Controlling or Risk Management
- •Experience in project business in international company
- •Experience in dealing with customers
- •Fluent in English, other languages will be an advantage
- •Master’s degree
Deine Aufgaben
- •Act as a Business Partner to the Large Project Office manager.
- •Participate in negotiations on contractual terms.
- •Ensure timely allocation of resources to Large Projects.
- •Monitor HBU operational performance and progress.
- •Analyze and support HBU controlling efforts.
- •Identify Tender Pipeline and drive strategy with capture team lead.
- •Collaborate with departments to prepare LPO tenders.
- •Identify Large Projects opportunities and risks.
- •Implement mitigation actions for identified risks.
- •Prepare timely Large Project reviews and cash planning.
- •Analyze root causes of project deviations.
- •Identify and implement best practices and lessons learned.
- •Drive process standardization for financial data.
- •Propose digital initiatives for efficiency and quality.
- •Mentor the team on processes and tools usage.
- •Support HBU controlling resources planning for LPO projects.
Original Beschreibung
# Large Project Office Tender & Project Controller Manager - HBU Europe Grid Integration
**Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany** | **Full time**
**Location:**
Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
**Job ID:**
R0093137
**Date Posted:**
2025-05-23
**Company Name:**
HITACHI ENERGY GERMANY AG
**Profession (Job Category):**
Finance
**Job Schedule:**
Full time
**Remote:**
No
**Job Description:**
**The opportunity**
We are looking for a **Large Project Office Tender & Project Controller Manager** to drive and support the Large Project Office operation.
The LPO T&P controller manager will provide guidance and Leadership to Tender & Project Controllers allocated to LPO and will ensure commercial awareness and proper involvement in Tendering phase, validating, contractual set up, T&C’s, tax impacts and FCM.
He will be a member of the HBU Europe Controlling & Risk Management organization.
The location of the role is flexible, ideally colocated with major HE locations in Europe.
Hitachi Energy's Grid & Power Quality Solutions and Service global product group is a world-leading provider of grid connections and power quality solutions that enable our customers to build a more sustainable, flexible and secure energy system. We leverage our long-standing technology leadership, vast integration expertise, huge installed base and global footprint to provide our customers with life-cycle value solutions at the lowest risk. Our customers are in the utility, renewables, industry, transportation, data centers and infrastructure sectors.
Our business in Europe has more than 1,000 skilled professionals focused on critical areas of expertise and is present in 16 countries.
At Grid & Power Quality Solutions and Service business in Europe (HBUEU), diversity drives our culture of innovation and collaboration. Our leading technology and strong market position enable us to achieve growth targets in the energy transition across current and growing market segments such as hydrogen, data centers and e-mobility.
**How you'll make an impact**
* Act as a Business Partner to the Large Project Office manager
* Participates or provides input to negotiations on Contractual terms and conditions (Clients, consortia, subcontractors, suppliers )
* Ensure timely and experienced resources are allocated to Large Projects
* Support and improves the predictability and operational performance of the HBU, monitoring progress achieved, providing analysis and support to HBU Controlling
* Identifies Tender Pipeline of LPO and interacts with capture team lead to drive the strategy and challenge where needed
* Interacts with other dpt. Preparing a LPO tender such as SCM & Planning to secure BtB agreements
* Identifies Large Projects opportunity/risk and ensure that all required mitigation actions are timely implemented
* Drives and ensure that Large Project reviews are timely prepared, proper revenues and cash planning by project and root causes analysis on deviations
* Identify best practices and lessons learned to be implemented.
* Drive processes, standardization , common way of working: S4H to be the basis for financial relevant data
* Propose and implement digital initiatives for increased efficiency and quality.
* Proactively mentors the team in the correct usage of processes and tools.
* CWFP for LPO projects to support HBU Controlling resources planning
**Your background**
**OPERATIONAL**
**Principles**
An expert knowledge of Risk Management principles and ability to give a comprehensive illustration on how those principles are being applied in highly complex circumstances.
**Framework**
An expert knowledge of Company regulatory environment, governance principles and Company’s accountability. Ability to give examples or illustrations on how they relate to framework of managing risks in highly complex circumstances, involving multiple BU business and strategic customers.
**Tool**
An expert knowledge of Company tools and ability to operate with, providing full guidance to Tendering & Project Controlling team how tool is to be filled, and relevant questions answered.
**BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE**
**Techical Knowledge**
Deep knowledge of the BU/ HBU & Project execution processes, guidelines and tools: S4H, P6, Promis, Tendering tools, FARM implementation in Project execution.
**Risk & Opportunity Management**
Capability to identify the significant risks along the full value chain and evaluate, assess, and challenge the Response Plan to avoid/achieve margin erosion/improvement.
**Planning & Scheduling (including Procurement)**
Understanding of key milestones for an effective plan, schedule, monitoring & control activities necessary for predictable fulfillment of planned activities with efficient utilization of available resources. Ability to suggest improvements, changes, or alternatives for an improved risk profile.
**Financial & Cost Management**
Understanding of full cost model structure and key items to maintain or improve margins and cash generation. Ability to suggest improvements, changes, or alternatives to for an improved risk profile.
**Legal & Contract Management**
Ability to understand legal & contractual requirements to manage projects within given borders & to request legal support/clarification as needed.
**BEHAVIOURAL SKILLS**
**Delivering stakeholder focused services**
Capacity to support Tendering and Execution team on providing timely and quality input to HBU Management team. Make sure views of key internal/external stakeholders are constantly listened to and considered.
**Preventing and solving problems**
Analyze, synthesize and prioritize large amounts of data to determine risk and appropriate level of involvement
**Managing change**
Create systems foster a feedback culture with the project finance team that enable and inspire constructive feedback and support continuous development of people and processes.
**Building capability**
Demonstrate ability to produce qualitative training material and being able to train the Project team in finance related trainings needed during the project execution.
**Leadership**
Demonstrate ability to get commitment and buy-in across the unit/organization and externally.
**Communication**
Advanced communication skills to collaborate with global team and HBU Leadership Team. Communicate, spoken and/or written, highly effectively in different cultures/organizations.
**Organizational Skills**
High level organization skills with attention to details and strong process orientation
**WORKING EXPERIENCE / EDUCATION**
**Working experience**
Experience in one of the following functions: Project Controlling, Risk Management / Project Management / Contract Management
Experience in project business in international company
Experience in dealing with customers
**Languages**
Fluent in English (oral and written), other languages will be an advantage
**Education**
Master’s degree