Product Manager Digital - Grid Edge Solutions

Location:

Genoa, Ligura, Italy

Job ID:

R0041378

Date Posted:

2024-02-20

Company Name:

HITACHI ENERGY ITALY S.P.A.

Profession (Job Category):

Sales, Marketing & Product Management

Job Schedule:

Full time

Remote:

No

Job Description:

The "Product Manager - Digital" will work as part of the global product management team in the Grid Edge Solutions business. The key role is to manage and develop a digital application portfolio. The digital applications provide an end-2-end data driven service for distributed energy systems and enhance customer value streams. Use cases range from data driven predictive & prescriptive maintenance offerings, digital twin concepts, all the way towards market facing & trading solutions. The GPS Digital Solutions needs to work across a complex product portfolio from battery storage towards power system automation, supporting sales, B&P - engineering - execution & commissioning.

Your responsibilities

• Drive the development of strategies and business models for a service and digital portfolio in product management. This includes an analysis of the customer and internal values that the service and digital offerings provide

• Develop market introduction and go-to-market concepts for new digital portfolio elements

• Own product roadmap for Digital Solutions in GES

• Support Sales and Business Development globally as technical expert

• Provide competitive intelligence on service and digital offerings and related business

• Interface with R&D to make sure the products will meet the market requirements.

• Attend conferences and customer events to promote and discuss the Service and Digital offering

• Support the B&P team in discussing and specifying functional and non-functional project requirements and the related engineering effort

• Support the roll-out and the market introduction of the Digital portfolio releases to supply units and ensure smooth handover in customer projects

• Work with cross-functional project teams (Power Electronics, Mechanics, Control and Automation, Sales, Engineering, Service)

• Setup and manage partnerships with external R&D and production suppliers

• Collect and clarify requirements and drive prioritization with multiple stakeholders

• Support the R&D organization in continuously improving the processes and ways of working towards increasingly lean and agile methods

• Embracing a "voice of customer" mentality and driving that thought processes throughout the engineering organization) - holistic data driven value creation perspective

Your background

• University degree or tertiary education in a technical field with >3 years of experience

• Experience in software and digital solutions, power systems and/or plant automation, as well as knowledge in IoT infrastructure is a plus

• Strong team player

• Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment with competing and changing priorities

• Strong communication skills verbal and written with open and direct communication style

• Must have the ability to manage multiple technical projects simultaneously and have the experience and ability to interface with customers, cross-functional teams, and all levels of personnel/management

• This position requires the ability and willingness to travel

• Fluent in local Language & English.