Global Head of M&S Transformation (f/m/d)

The opportunity

Step into a role where strategy meets impact!

Are you ready to lead with purpose and shape the future of market and sales excellence? At Hitachi Energy, we're looking for a visionary leader who thrives on turning insights into action and collaboration into results. This is more than a leadership role-it's a chance to drive transformation across global markets, influence high-level decisions, and leave a lasting mark on a dynamic, forward-thinking organization. If you're passionate about strategic leadership, data-driven decision-making, and fostering meaningful stakeholder relationships, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity.

How you'll make an impact

• As a senior leader, leads the project & workstreams allocated, defining main guidelines, allocating project tasks, and motivating and monitoring all stakeholders to accomplish all tasks and milestones
• Provide performance feedback regarding allocated resources working on projects
• Act as key contact for the internal stakeholders (executive team, BUs and Regions) and an escalation point for project issues
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and effectively communicates with everyone
• Define & lead the agreed strategy, conducts hands-on analysis to deliver global business benefits
• Provide and ensures optimized delivery and use of customer, competitor, finance, business and market intelligence within business decision making
• Prepare reports that are both standardized and unique to the specific segments and applications
• Monitor the project (through a team) and ensures high quality synthesis and analysis, providing in depth understanding and insights relevant to Hitachi Energy decisions
• Extract and analyses data from sales/financial tools to measure effectiveness of current marketing activities and provides updates to management and proactively monitors and strives to maintain high levels of data quality and completeness
• Support the creation of templates and meeting packs for Management meetings, ensuring distribution in required timescales ahead of the meeting, review and build analysis in line with the standard templates
• Collaborate with all M&S Function Heads, INLs, MDMs, Regions etc. to ensure full alignment, communications excellence and consistency across all market analysis
• Carry out process improvements based on a culture of feedback and continuous improvement

• A university degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Economics, or a related field; an advanced degree is a plus
• Proven experience in face-to-face and/or remote sales, engaging with both new and existing customers
• A strong ability to assess customer needs and recommend tailored products, services, or solutions
• Expertise in developing and executing marketing strategies for products, services, and brands
• Solid understanding of product/brand financials, including budgeting, profitability, and ROI analysis
• Experience in customer service and support, including handling inquiries, pricing, billing, and delivery issues
• A track record of achieving or exceeding sales targets in a competitive environment
• Leadership experience in managing multiple teams and senior managers, ideally within a large domestic market or key national function
• Strategic ownership of short- to mid-term (1-3 years) commercial initiatives, with a focus on execution and operational excellence