Lead Service Designer

Company Description

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.

Be part of our Hitachi family

We place value on collaboration, open communication, and transparency. We emphasise the importance of team spirit, cohesion, and appreciation - And through our talented people, innovative culture, and technical and business expertise, we deliver game changing outcomes every day. Our learning culture and flat hierarchy are our recipes for success. But don't take our word for it - Have a look at what our employees are saying: Hitachi Solutions: Recruiting the best talent and offering outstanding career opportunities (hitachi-solutions.co.uk)

What to expect, your benefits

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.

Job Description

Role

We are growing our multidisciplinary User-Centred Design consulting team and looking for a Lead Service Designer to join us on our exciting journey and be part of the Hitachi Solutions family. This role will be responsible for enabling the best-in-class digital transformation for our clients in both public and private sectors.

Key responsibilities

• Championing the user-centred and evidence-based design approach internally and externally
• Supporting growth, mentoring, and leading Service Design professionals across our business in the UK and Europe
• Working with service owners, programme managers and technology leaders to develop end-to-end design concepts
• Supporting digital transformation programmes in the public and private sectors
• Setting the service design direction across the full software delivery lifecycle
• Coordinating, planning and leading service design activities across the key clients and large-scale programmes
• Communicating complex concepts in a simple and graspable way

Qualifications

As an experienced Learning Consultant, you have...

• Experienced in recruiting, mentoring and leading other members of User-Centred Design team
• Planning service design for large programmes and delivering the best methods of value outcomes
• Facilitate workshops to understand and prioritise problems, opportunities and translate outcomes into a business value
• Lead teams to understand complex challenges in the public or private sectors
• You have experience in creating service maps, customer journeys, blueprints or any other artefacts that can help organisations to understand systems and services
• Lead service design work in early-stage discovery and vision definition projects
• You can champion the role of service design in creation of better products, services, and solutions
• Expert knowledge and know how to apply GDS Service Standard
• Strong communication skills and are comfortable working with engineering, business leaders, and product leader

Diversity and Inclusion at Hitachi Solutions

Diversity is the wellspring of our innovation, and we believe that creativity is fuelled by inclusivity. Our collective success is achieved by fostering and respecting our employees' and customer's individualities coming together as One Team. Hitachi strives to create an environment not only where genders, races, cultures, sexual orientations, and identities can work together, but where the beliefs and views of those participating feel equally represented. You can read more about Hitachi's mission and values here: hitachi-solutions.co.uk

Additional Information

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