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Service Pre‑Sales Technical Team Lead

Hitachi logoHitachiStone, Staffordshire, United KingdomFull-timeListed 2mo ago

The posting

Location

Stone, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Job ID

R0127653

Date Posted

2026-05-14

Company Name

HITACHI ENERGY UK LIMITED

Profession (Job Category)

Sales, Marketing & Product Management

Job Schedule

Full time

Remote

Yes

The opportunity

Hitachi Energy is entering an exciting phase of growth in our UK Service organisation, and we’re looking for a Team Leader, Service Pre‑Sales that ensures that every service proposal is technically robust, consistent, and commercially supportable.

Within this role you will be enabling sales teams to bid with confidence across simple and complex opportunities.

You lead a small team (2 people) that support all service tenders, providing technical clarification, solution definition, risk identification, and cross‑domain coordination. Acting as the technical anchor for bids, you bridge sales, engineering, and operations to ensure solutions are feasible, aligned to standards, and clearly articulated to customers.

This is a role for someone who enjoys leading people, influencing customers, and creating value over the full asset lifecycle - not just closing a single deal.

How you’ll make an impact

  • Leading, coaching and developing a team of service sales professionals, creating a motivated, high‑performance culture.
  • Be the main contact point providing technical pre‑sales support for all service bids.
  • Own the technical consistency and quality of service proposals across domains.
  • Coordinate technical inputs across engineering, operations, and service units.
  • Support bid strategy by identifying risks, dependencies, and solution options early.
  • Enable multi‑domain bids through integrated technical solutioning.
  • Act as escalation point for technically complex or high‑risk service opportunities.
  • Working along the wider leadership Service Operations team to ensure sellable, deliverable and profitable service solutions.

Your background

  • A strong track record in technical presales, particularly new service business and long‑term contract sales.
  • Experience within tendering, creating offers and providing technical and commercial support to sales ideally in energy, utilities, transmission, distribution or industrial environments highly desirable.
  • Proven experience as a people manager, with a passion for developing and coaching sales talent.
  • An engineering background in lieu of proven track record within the field.
  • The ability to clearly articulate service value - reliability, performance, lifecycle cost and risk reduction.
  • Strong communication, presentation and negotiation skills.

Qualified individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Hitachi Energy career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by completing a** general inquiry form **on our website. Please include your contact information and specific details about your required accommodation to support you during the job application process.

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Taken from Hitachi's own posting, last seen live on 2 Nov 2026.

About Hitachi

Transformers, HVDC links, high-voltage products and grid automation from Hitachi Energy, plus data storage, IT services, air compressors and factory equipment from other Hitachi companies, sold to utilities, EPC contractors, data centers, manufacturers and enterprise IT buyers.

Pay schedule: Each role is a salaried job with the Hitachi company that posts it (Hitachi Energy, Vantara, Digital Services, Global Air Power and others), with incentive plans and local benefits named in only a few postings.

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