Head of Product Management

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The opportunity

This role is designed for a strategic builder integrator and intrapreneursomeone who will shape market positioning drive portfolio competitiveness and influence longterm business success.

As a member of the GPQSS Management Team you will own the longterm profitable growth and strategic positioning of a diverse portfolio spanning grid connections power electronics emobility BESS hydrogen and emerging edgedriven solutions. You will manage offerings across their full lifecycle to ensure alignment with market needs business strategy and financial targets. The location of this role is flexible within Europe and will be determined in later stages.

How you will make an impact

• Lead the GPQSS Product & Solution Management team and its full portfolio (GrideXpand eSTATCOM STATCOM SVC Light SFC Rail BESS Energy Hubs Power Quality digital addons) ensuring lifecycle excellence and alignment with organizational strategy.
• Drive global market intelligencemonitor trends competitors and regulatory shiftsand translate insights into portfolio strategy innovation priorities and segmentspecific value propositions.
• Shape and execute the portfolio roadmap including new developments enhancements cost and complexity reductions and phaseout decisions to maximize competitiveness and profitability.
• Prioritize and govern the development pipeline ensuring robust business cases financial alignment and strong crossfunctional coordination.
• Oversee product development with Engineering R&D SCM and Operations ensuring marketdriven requirement definitions CapEx planning timelines and stagegate approvals.
• Define and refine value propositions and portfolio positioning in close collaboration with Sales BD Regions and Marketing.
• Build and deploy product management systems tools and documentation (e.g. configurators training lifecycle management) to empower global commercial and operational teams.
• Lead or contribute to crossfunctional and crossBU innovation initiatives (Grid Integration Transformers Grid Automation) ensuring systemlevel coherence and strong One Hitachi/One HE alignment.
• Champion affordability engineering efficiency portfolio simplification and continuous improvement of GPQSS Offer/Gate governance.
• Serve as the key interface between the market and internal functions ensuring accurate volume forecasting and enabling capacity planning across supply chain engineering and operations.
• Scout assess and engage with startups and emerging technologies; support earlystage M&A evaluations venture partnerships incubation concepts and intrapreneurial innovation initiatives.
• Embed a culture of safety integrity transparency and collaborative leadership across all product management activities.

Your Background

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Engineering Power Systems Business or related fields; MBA/postgraduate in Strategy or Marketing preferred.
• 15 years experience in product management portfolio leadership or systemlevel roles in energy grid power electronics or related technologies.
• Strong leadership of global crossfunctional multicultural teams; experience in matrix organizations preferred.
• Deep expertise in grid technologies power electronics inverterbased resources control systems and industrial hardware/software development.
• Experience with startup ecosystems technology scouting M&A assessments and venture/incubationstyle innovation; intrapreneurial mindset valued.
• Proven ability to translate market insights into portfolio strategy and manage complex multiproduct roadmaps.
• Highly collaborative agile and innovationdriven professional with strong communication skills passion for sustainability and fluency in English.

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