Incubation & Solution Manager(m/f/d)

Description

Our Company

Hitachi drives Social Innovation Business, creating a sustainable society through the use of data and technology. We are a climate change innovator, partnering with cities, governments and companies to cut carbon. We are working to connect solutions with the help of Hitachi's Green Energy and Mobility both physically and digitally to deliver net-zero. The company's consolidated revenues for fiscal year 2023 (ended March 31, 2024) totalled 8,564.3 billion yen, and approximately 268,000 employees worldwide. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at .

To lead the SSIB eMobility business incubation program in close collaboration with Regions and BUs,

• Drive the end-to-end business incubation process for the portfolio of projects one ONE Hitachi eMobility business innovation: typical timeline of 6 to 18 months incubation with budget spending of few 100k€ to few M€ depending

• Drive the business incubation team: project team is cross-functional with Venture, Regions and BUs participants

• Engage and coordinate all necessary stakeholders (internal Hitachi and external partners and clients): typically 2 or more Hitachi Business Units and some external partners (sub-contractors for market research, user experience, mock-up and pilot developers, startups, ).

• Senior leadership reporting, up to Hitachi's SSIB CEO and also with Regions through their Regional Executive Council (REC)

What you'll be doing

The role will also be responsible for:

Innovation Management: Understand the eMobility and industrial battery ecosystems (IT, OT and Products), set direction to explore new innovations in close collaboration with Hitachi's Business Units. Organize deep-dive and discovery sessions, prepare and update business cases and associated business model, including market analysis, customer needs, solution architecture, operating model and financial plan.

Project Management: Lead all programmatic aspects of the assigned business incubation projects following the corporate innovation process in place, inc. creating and updating the project vision, plan and budget, setting the innovation team structure and sourcing resources, setting and maintaining the operating rhythm with the innovation team, ensure on-time and quality of delivery of deliverables, resolving programmatic and technical issues, escalating when necessary.

Stakeholders' management: Act as the lead point of contact for all stakeholders for the assigned business incubation projects, including delivering first-hand expertise on the innovation topic and the associated business sectors, communicating timely and accurately on advancement and issues arising, and fostering a sense of urgency and commitment of the stakeholders community with the NBI.

Communication: take an active role in the industry to promote our solutions and capture new business ideas, including events participation and customer meetings

Challenges: High cross-matrix collaboration necessitates the buy-in and convincing of stakeholders across Hitachi.

What you bring to the team

We're looking for a team player, who is motivated by delivering great work and the Hitachi vision. The role will be a mixture of remote-hybrid work with 2 days in the Hitachi Office. (office based )

The candidate ideally be based near the office location for easy commute to office.

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and background:

• University degree in engineering or economics

• 10+ years of professional experience

• Experience in innovation (technology, business models) management - digital platforms for industrial solutions highly desirable.

• Experience with structuring, leading and managing cross-functional, global projects as well as making and giving presentations is also essential for this key.

• Excellent oral communication/ presentation skills to senior management and advanced skills with PowerPoint

• Comfortable interacting with senior leaders to provide both support and input for their initiatives and have high ethical standards, highly trustworthy and high ethics.

• Quick to react to urgent requests, relying on self-drive and motivation and establishing networks across the organization to deliver analysis/information in a high-quality manner.

• Proven business development, customer and market orientation, ability to act as the interface between product development and customer needs.

• Adequate financial skills to assess financial performance and prepare business plans.

• Solid influencing, communication and networking skills matured in an international and multi-cultural environment.

• Also motivated, willing to work in a fast-paced, hard-working and fun-loving team, flexible, and resourceful with the ability to work independently and with

• Fluency in English, a second European language and/or Japanese language is a plus

We are proud to say we are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to any factor that doesn't impact your ability to do the job, including race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. We are proud of Japanese heritage, with our values expressed through the Hitachi Spirit:

Wa - Harmony, Trust, Respect

Makoto - Sincerity, Fairness, Honesty, Integrity

Kaitakusha-Seishin - Pioneering Spirit, Challenge

If, like us, you're motivated by delivering first class services, thrive in a fast paced and supportive environment and want to help Hitachi to drive social innovation, we'd love to hear from you.