Global Portfolio Excellence Leader

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We are seeking a Global Portfolio Excellence Leader who will play a key role in driving the operational excellence of our portfolio and product management organization. This role is essential for defining, establishing, and maintaining the processes, tools, and governance needed to support business growth and the regionalization and application of the portfolio, ensuring market leadership in target segments and regions.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Define and maintain processes, governance, and tools to drive operational excellence across the portfolio and product management organization.
• Develop and maintain a portfolio management framework with an end‑to‑end process and clear roles and responsibilities.
• Continuously adapt and update relevant portfolio and product management processes.
• Implement strong product lifecycle management processes and promote methodologies to define product and application‑based customer value propositions.
• Document the product management framework and associated processes, ensuring proper implementation of tools and creating support material for users. Set foundations to scale up and grow the knowledge and skills of the product management organization.
• Define a competitive positioning framework for competitor monitoring, including portfolio, pricing, and strategic market messages; strengthen processes and best practices for product development business cases, market introduction plans, and their success measurement; and explore and implement novel innovation processes (market and disruptive innovation).

Your Background

• Education: Solid B.A./B.S. degree.
• Experience: 5–10 years in market analysis, product management, business transformation, or change management within the energy sector.
• Process management: Proven track record and knowledge of process management and definition.
• Analytical skills: Strong analytical mindset for market analysis, process development, and concept creation.
• Multinational experience: Experience working in complex and large multinational organizations.
• Communication skills: Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to effectively train and gain stakeholder buy‑in.
• Project management: Well‑developed project‑management skills, initiative, flexibility, and resourcefulness.
• Organizational skills: Strong organizational skills.
• Language proficiency: Fluent command of English.
• Travel: Willingness to travel for business assignments.
• Change management: Demonstrated experience in leading and managing change communications.
• Activity management: Experience in managing, tracking, and reporting on activities.

More About Us

Our employee benefit programs are tailored to each country depending on location of employment and job grade. Please contact your talent acquisition partner for more specific information on the employee benefit program offering in your intended country of employment. Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives. With over a century in pioneering mission‑critical technologies such as high‑voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand while decarbonizing the power system. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.

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