Job Description

Hydro Global Business Services (GBS) is an organizational area that operates as an internal service provider for the Hydro group. Its ultimate purpose is to deliver relevant IT, financial and HR business services to all business areas within the company.

Role Purpose

The Delivery Lead is responsible for steering the successful delivery of Digital Transformation and Solutions Delivery initiatives. This high-impact role manages the strategic build-up and continuous value delivery of a portfolio of interconnected digital products and projects, ensuring alignment with business priorities and enterprise data strategy. The position requires managing complex delivery landscapes across multiple countries, business areas, and stakeholder groups, demanding strong leadership, stakeholder management, and cross-functional agile coordination.

What you will be doing

• Delivery Planning: Drive integrated delivery plans for Digital Transformation and Solutions Delivery products and projects, ensuring milestones, dependencies, and outcomes are achieved. Operate effectively in an Agile environment, translating strategic objectives and product priorities into actionable roadmaps, release plans, backlogs, and iterative delivery
• Agile Delivery & Continuous Improvement: Champion Agile ways of working across products and projects, fostering collaboration, transparency, accountability, and a strong delivery mindset within cross-functional teams. Support Agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, prioritization, and iterative planning
• Financial Oversight: Manage and monitor delivery budgets; track budget versus actuals, and perform variance analysis
• Cross-BA Alignment: Drive alignment and dependency management across business areas, data domains, product teams, and technology teams
• Program Governance: Optimize governance frameworks to enable transparency, effective decision-making, risk management, and portfolio alignment while supporting Agile delivery
• Resource Management: Plan resource requirements across internal teams and external partners
• Vendor & Partner Management: Lead and coordinate delivery teams and third-party vendors to ensure timely, high-quality, and cost-effective execution
• Scope & Stakeholder Management: Define scopes, objectives, priorities, and success criteria with senior business and IT stakeholders, ensuring technical feasibility and measurable business outcomes
• Risk, Dependency & Impediment Management: Proactively manage delivery risks, cross-team dependencies, constraints, and impediments
• Compliance: Ensure program activities and deliverables comply with the Hydro Quality system, corporate and regulatory policies, and standardized operating procedures

What will make you successful?

• Degree in IT, Business, Engineering, Data & Analytics, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Fluent English with strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• 5+ years of IT/Digital project and program management experience in complex international environments
• Strong Agile delivery expertise (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
• Solid understanding of IT service delivery, portfolio governance, budgeting, and resource management
• Proven ability to influence senior business and IT stakeholders and manage cross-functional teams and vendors
• Data-driven mindset with experience using KPIs and metrics to support decisions and continuous improvement

Nice to Have

• Experience with Azure Data Platform, Databricks, Power BI, Data Lakes, or Data Warehousing
• Experience delivering AI, Data & Analytics solutions
• Knowledge of Data Governance and Data Management practices
• Background in business transformation, automation, and digitalization initiatives

What we offer you

• Working at the world’s only fully integrated aluminum and leading renewable energy company
• Diverse, global teams
• Flexible work environment/home office
• We provide you the freedom to be creative and to learn from experts
• Possibility to grow with the company, gain new certificates
• Attractive benefit package

Equal opportunities

At Hydro, we believe diversity makes us stronger. We welcome diverse experiences and perspectives, and invite all qualified candidates to apply. We review every application fairly and strive to provide equal opportunities for everyone to grow and succeed.

Apply before: 12/31/2026