Mobility Incubation Lead

Description

Mobility Incubation Lead

The mobility landscape is changing and shifting towards digital. A key pattern is the disruption of existing mobility models, combined with a convergence of previously unconnected areas, driven by digital. Most of these transformations are driven either by a focus on better customer experience to increase the value per customer e.g., Uber, or a more efficient use of existing transport infrastructure by increasing utilisation and reliability.

Our customers are being increasingly disrupted in the market, and our priority is to provide new digital services as an overlay to our existing propositions, to allow them to be successful by focusing on their customers.

Hitachi has an accelerator that cuts across all of innovation that happens at Hitachi. Hitachi is a key player in public transport solutions, and the accelerator develops a strong central vision for what digital mobility means for Hitachi and what our overarching strategy is.

We are looking for an entrepreneurial Incubation Lead with deep industry experience who is passionate about building ecosystems and managing complex digital transformation projects / programmes to transform mobility and public transport through the power of digital.

You will work as part of the senior leadership team of the Social Innovation Business.

Responsibilities:

• Keep track of key developments in digital to continually identify new ideas, tools and trends that could provide opportunities for Hitachi
• Drive growth and profitability through digital to the BU
• Work closely and in collaboration with multiple Business Units to ensure business value
• Ensure all digital programs have clearly defined metrics to evaluate success and continuous, measurable improvement
• Guarantee the consistency and quality of the customer interaction across all solutions within your industry areas
• Serve as thought leader and trusted business advisor to senior management and various stakeholders
• Extend the Hitachi‘s digital platform to transform the operations of the BU
• Build an innovative, people-first business with a culture of trust, transparency, and continuous improvement
• Attract, retain & develop world-class talent, including making recruitment decisions of full leadership team, while cultivating a high-performing / agile one-team culture

Domain Expertise: Mobility / Transport

Agile/Digital Experience:

• Best-in-class digital experience and knowledge, with a deep understanding of product management, agile, design thinking, analytics, digital marketing, and technology
• Seasoned digital leader. Has overseen delivery of multiple large-scale B2B products (or portfolios of products) in an agile environment

Individual Skills:

• Extraordinary and accomplished strategic executive with a clear track record of success, of building and growing products or brands in the digital space
• The ability to exercise commercial acumen / judgement on internal and external business opportunities
• Experienced manager / leader of multidisciplinary teams of experts from both the business and technology innovation
• Experience executing data-driven decision-making with input from cross-functional teams from tech, design, and business
• Passion to challenge the status quo and find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas – loves and embraces change
• Strong communication skills with ability to present complex messages and trade-offs and influence C level stakeholders
• Strategic thinker who can devise and communicate elegant and simple solutions to complex issues
• Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust
• Servant leader
• Empowers others to test, learn, and grow
• Experimental mindset to drive innovation

Qualifications

Top academics with a master’s and a PhD is a plus.

Benefits Package

Company Funded Benefits:

• Market competitive salary and discretionary bonus scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement - with the option to buy up to an additional 8 days per year
• A Holiday Banking scheme allowing you to bank untaken holiday to use another year
• Group Personal Pension
• Private Medical Insurance with self-funded option to cover family members
• Employee Assistance Programme available to all employees
• Personal Accident Insurance

Voluntary Benefits (funded by employee):

• Cycle to Work scheme
• Gym Membership
• Dental Insurance with option to include dependent children
• Health screening