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IoTWe’re Hitachi Digital, a company at the forefront of digital transformation and the fastest growing division of Hitachi Group. We’re crucial to the company’s strategy and ambition to become a premier global player in the massive and fast-moving digital transformation market.
Our group companies, including GlobalLogic, Hitachi Digital Services, Hitachi Vantara and more, offer comprehensive services that span the entire digital lifecycle, from initial idea to full-scale operation and the infrastructure to run it on. Hitachi Digital represents One Hitachi, integrating domain knowledge and digital capabilities, and harnessing the power of the entire portfolio of services, technologies, and partnerships, to accelerate synergy creation and make real-world impact for our customers and society as a whole.
Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to unleash a digital future. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.
• Lead the Europe MES Practice by defining and executing the regional MES strategy, driving practice growth, building service offerings, and establishing Hitachi Digital Services as a trusted Manufacturing IT and Smart Factory transformation partner across industries.
• Drive business development and pre-sales activities by engaging with clients, understanding business challenges, shaping digital manufacturing roadmaps, leading solution workshops, preparing proposals/RFP responses, developing effort estimates, and supporting sales pursuits to win new business.
• Develop and enhance MES offerings by creating reusable accelerators, industry-specific solutions, implementation methodologies, and partnerships
• Lead end-to-end solution delivery for large-scale Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and Manufacturing IT transformation programs, ensuring successful project execution, solution quality, governance, stakeholder management, and customer satisfaction across Europe.
• Provide technical and consulting leadership by guiding solution architecture, manufacturing process optimization, ISA-95/ISA-88 standards adoption, integration with ERP, SCADA, PLC, Historians, and Industrial IoT platforms, while mentoring delivery teams and developing MES capabilities.
• Build and manage strategic client relationships with manufacturing executives and plant leadership, acting as a trusted advisor to identify digital transformation opportunities, expand existing engagements, and drive long-term account growth.
• Required Qualifications: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline with 12+ years of experience in Manufacturing IT and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), including significant experience in consulting, client engagement, pre-sales, solution architecture, business development, and delivery leadership within discrete and/or process manufacturing industries.
We’re a global, 1000-stong, diverse team of professional experts, promoting and delivering Social Innovation through our One Hitachi initiative (OT x IT x Product) and working on projects that have a real-world impact. We’re curious, passionate and empowered, blending our legacy of 110 years of innovation with our shaping our future. Here you’re not just another employee; you’re part of a tradition of excellence and a community working towards creating a digital future.
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.