I&C product line manager

The opportunity

Hitachi Energy Transformer Business Unit in Greater China operates across 55 cities, employs over 1,900 staff, and manages 5 transformer manufacturing plants. More than 90% of its sales come from locally manufactured products. We offer a comprehensive portfolio of Transformers Products, Solutions and Services.  Transformers are essential in all electricity-related fields and applications, including power generation, transmission and distribution, oil, chemical and gas, industrial manufacturing, semiconductor and data centers, as well as building and transportation sectors.
 
Nearly half of our white-collar workforce comprises employees in engineering and scientific fields. Internally, we have targeted talent development programs for employees at different stages of their career development to build skills and competencies, foster training, support people to own career development, scale up organization for growth and execution.

How you’ll make an impact

• You will set operational targets to ensure customer satisfaction and improved NPS.

• You will achieve established targets through regular oversight and definition of improvement actions.

• You will be owning the Product Line P&L, focuses on business performance rather than operational performance

• You will directly drives the SEOP (Sales, Engineering, Operations) process across the full value chain

• You will drive the Product Line business including Sales, Engineering, PM, HR, SCM and Finance through continuous improvement.

• You will manage the transition to the new business model.

• You will be responsible for sustainable & profitable growth and market position of the portfolio.

• You will take management lead in front of customer for major incidents- operational or commercial

• You will drive synergies among units by leveraging Hub resources.

• You will coordinates with Global Product Group on strategy deployment on behalf of the Hub, involving Hub functions as appropriate.

• You will leverage from the company’s new tools and processes needed by the Hub.

• You will participate in setting annual budgets and is responsible for their execution.

• You will define resource allocation within Product Line functions.

• You will work on a more pervasive lean cultural transformation.

• You will involve systemizing the Long-term thinking, Elimination of waste, People development (respect & challenge) and problem solving (organization learning through Kaizen).

• You will be responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

• Living Hitachi energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background

• You hold bachelor’s degree.

• Rounded experience in the industry in similar roles.

• Business acumen and strong understanding of manufacturing economics.

• Strong in strategic and systemic thinking.

• Good commercial knowledge and confidence to set price levels against available market intelligence data.

• Remarkable customer management experience, likely to be involved in closing some of the larger deals with competitors of the transformer business.

• Able to encourage and drive (and possibly even design) the Sales organizations.

• Portfolio management experience would be excellent to have.

• Finest leadership and communication skills.

• Practical and experienced approach to solve issues.

More about us

We pride ourselves on offering a holistic range of competitive benefit programs to support your financial, physical and mental wellbeing and personal development. We want you to truly thrive with us – in work and out. For this role, depending on grade and experience, we offer the following employee benefits (subject to the respective plan rules) :

• Up to 30 days full paid leaves per year

• Flexible Benefit program (Supplementary Pensions included)

• Medical Insurance(outpatient and inpatient)

• Long service awards

• Flexible Working(subject to role)

Are you ready for an exciting new challenge? Does the above description sound like you? Welcome  Our selection process is continuous, and the position may be closed before the advertisement expires. So, if you are interested – don’t delay, apply today!  All other questions can be directed to Talent Acquisition Partner Cherry Zhang (Wechat: cherryzhang2023)