Services Project Coordinator (German Speaker)

Our Company

We're Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world's innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers - from banks to theme parks - can focus on achieving the incredible with data.

If you've seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you've seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate - and wow their customers. Right now, we're laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We're looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team - and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

The team

We as Global Delivery (GD) are part of the Global Services Organization at Hitachi Vantara. Our task is the implementation of the various Hitachi solutions after the sale to our customers. The Project Management team within GD works very closely with the Technical Consultants to jointly implement Hitachi solutions for our customers.
We collaborate as a team and cross-functionally to ensure the success of our customers. Our mostly international clients are active in all industries: telecommunications, banking & financial services, retail, pharmaceuticals, public sector, etc.

The role

The Services Project Coordinator is responsible for the coordination of professional services projects over the whole life cycle with the phases New, Planning, Live and Closed. This is mainly the administration of the engagements in Salesforce Kimble which includes various initial, weekly, monthly and project completion tasks but also close coordination with our customers and colleagues.
In this role, you also provide a revenue forecast for your projects on a weekly basis to the Global Delivery Management team. To have an overview of these tasks at any time, even for a larger number of projects, various reports are available. You will support the Global Delivery Organisation to deliver projects in time, budget, scope, and quality.
This Service Project Coordinator will be responsible for this type of project for our customers in Austria and Switzerland.
You are part of the EMEA wide project management community and share knowledge, lessons learned and best practices with your colleagues in a rewarding and flexible environment.

What you'll bring

• Experience in the successful administration of projects, ideally around IT infrastructure (Storage, Servers, Network, Converged or Hyperconverged, Hybrid Cloud, etc.).
• A forward-looking and far-sighted work style.
• Ability to work unsupervised, self-motivated and self-contained.
• Excellent communication skills both with our customers and internally in the organisation. Ability to communicate freely and effectively with different hierarchy levels - customers, peers, management.
• Enjoy working with distributed teams including members from different countries.
• Ability to keep a cool head even in difficult situations and to act in a structured but also empathetic way.
• Willingness to work flexibly.
• Fluent written and spoken business German and English, Polish would be a plus.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office products (Excel, Outlook, TEAMS, ...)
• Reliable and precise way of working.

About us

We're a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.

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Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.

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.