Strategy Lead - EMEA

Company Overview

Through its Social Innovation Business that brings together IT, OT(Operational Technology) and products, Hitachi contributes to a harmonized society where the environment, wellbeing, and economic growth are in balance. Hitachi operates globally in four sectors – Digital Systems & Services, Energy, Mobility, and Connective Industries – and the Strategic SIB Business Unit for new growth businesses. With Lumada at its core, Hitachi generates value from integrating data, technology and domain knowledge to solve customer and social challenges. Revenues for FY2024 (ended March 31, 2025) totaled 9,783.3 billion yen, with 618 consolidated subsidiaries and approximately 280,000 employees worldwide. Visit us at www.hitachi.com.

About Hitachi EMEA

Hitachi is a leader in Climate Change Innovation, finding new pathways to net zero through our world-leading businesses in key sectors including Energy, Transportation, Manufacturing and Digital. Since our founding in 1910, our mission has been centred on Social Innovation – making society better through advanced technology – supported by our R&D centres across the world. Some examples of our contribution to Climate Change Innovation include:

• Grid modernisation & renewable integration: enabling resilient, decarbonised energy systems through HVDC, grid automation, energy storage and digital energy management, nuclear and SMR.

• E-mobility: advancing rail decarbonisation through electrification, battery technologies, signalling and intelligent mobility solutions (e.g. HMAX).

• Industrial AI & digital transformation: combining IT, OT, data and AI to improve productivity, resilience and sustainability across critical and heavy industries.

• Data Centres: enabling sustainable, resilient digital infrastructure through energy hubs, on-site power generation, modular data centres and advanced cooling solutions.

Hitachi EMEA represents all the businesses in the Hitachi Group and drives growth by taking a regional approach, focusing on opportunities where ‘One Hitachi’ can help accelerate growth across the region.

Hitachi EMEA has an opportunity for a proven strategist to join the Corporate Strategy Office and help shape the region’s transformation and growth agenda.

This role reports to the Chief Strategy Officer, EMEA, and supports the Chief Strategy Officer and President in defining and delivering the strategic direction and change programme for the region. As part of the Corporate Strategy Office, you will work across a variety of sectors and assume significant responsibility and autonomy.

What you’ll be doing

As a Strategy Lead, you will work with the Chief Strategy Officer and President to define and deliver the strategic direction and change programme for the EMEA region, supporting a transformational agenda to grow the region over the next five years.

This role will collaborate with Hitachi Business Units, Hitachi Limited in Japan, R&D and other regions to align strategic direction and unify approaches, leveraging the best global practice across the organisation.

The role will be measured through the successful definition and delivery of the EMEA transformation agenda, including strategic planning outcomes, growth portfolio progress and key transformation milestones.

The role will also be responsible for:

Defining Hitachi’s EMEA Strategy

• Create strategic business plans and executive presentations addressing future Hitachi growth across market and business scenarios, as well as cost effectiveness.
• Define the growth strategy and build a balanced portfolio of cost-efficiency and growth initiatives, including organic and inorganic opportunities, partnerships, metrics, data and commercialisation.
• Identify where Hitachi should compete across the region and in priority countries, working with Business Units, other regions and global functions to create a unified strategy.
• Use analysis to define strategic direction, address business challenges and deliver distinctive, lasting outcomes and value.
• Maintain a clear understanding of market and competitive dynamics, prevailing trends, financial performance and operating drivers, identifying industry-specific metrics and key value drivers.
• Liaise with Hitachi Business Units, Hitachi Limited in Japan, R&D and other regions to align strategic direction and apply relevant global best practice.

Business Opportunity Development

• Identify business opportunities and advise on business design and organisational implications.
• Size opportunities and define the requirements for successful go-to-market strategies.
• Client Engagement and Decision-Making
• Work closely with client stakeholders to clarify objectives and define success metrics.
• Make decisions at pace and reorient when necessary, using data and analytics to test assumptions and support continuous discovery.

Transformation Programme Delivery

• Own and deliver workstreams within the defined transformation agenda for the regional headquarters.
• Support the Chief Strategy Officer in delivering a multi-year programme of transformational change.
• Manage multiple projects across the transformation programme, defining and monitoring key success metrics.
• Work with stakeholders across the region, Business Units and corporate functions to support the transition to the new regional operating structure.

One Hitachi Collaboration

• Support cross-BU collaboration and the One Hitachi agenda across EMEA.
• Work with cross-BU teams, regional sales teams and Country Representatives to identify market gaps, size opportunities and shape market approaches across multiple Business Units and offerings.
• Support deal shaping alongside colleagues from the relevant Business Units.

What you bring to the team

We’re looking for a team player, who is motivated by delivering great work and the Hitachi vision. The role will be a mixture of remote-hybrid work with 1day in the Hitachi Office (Office address: Hitachi Europe Ltd, Botanica Ditton Park, Riding Court Road, Datchet, SL3 9LL).

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and background:

 Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Strategy, MBA or equivalent qualification.
• Demonstrable strategy or strategic consulting experience, gained in a top-tier or specialist consultancy, or in a leading multinational organisation through a combination of technical, operational, management, business development or strategy roles.
• Proven track record of supporting or leading business transformation in a complex organisation.
• Experience leading strategic engagements, workstreams and teams, and applying recognised strategy frameworks and techniques.
• Experience in one or more of the Mobility and Transportation, Energy or Digital sectors.
• Experience working in diverse teams on complex strategy or consulting engagements and delivering high-quality outputs within demanding timeframes.

Skills and Competencies

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to analyse complex issues, define clear strategic choices and translate them into practical priorities and actions.
• Commercial Acumen: Strong financial and business management capability, with a focus on value creation, cost effectiveness and return on investment.
• Analytical Skills: Strong quantitative skills to develop financial and operational models, perform data analysis and size market opportunities.
• Executive Communication: Ability to create high-quality executive materials and communicate complex topics clearly and credibly.
• Relationship Building: Strong networking and influencing skills, with the ability to build credibility with executives, stakeholders, customers, partners and employees.
• Leadership: Ability to lead strategic engagements and teams, drive best practice and mobilise progress in a matrixed environment.
• Collaboration: Experience working across countries, Business Units and functions in diverse, international teams.
• Agility: Ability to absorb information quickly, work creatively, make decisions at pace and adapt when required.
• Results-Oriented: A hands-on, delivery-focused approach and a track record of achieving high-quality outcomes on time.
• Experience in any of the Mobility/Transportation, Energy and Digital sectors.

Benefits Package

 Company Funded Benefits

• Generous holiday entitlement - with the option to buy up to an additional 5 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) including;

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

Our Values

We are proud to say we are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to any factor that doesn’t impact your ability to do the job, including race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. We are proud of Japanese heritage, with our values expressed through the Hitachi Spirit:

Wa – Harmony, Trust, Respect

Makoto – Sincerity, Fairness, Honesty, Integrity

Kaitakusha-Seishin – Pioneering Spirit, Challenge

We are looking for a curious, analytical and results-driven strategist who is motivated by delivering great work and the Hitachi vision.