Junior Product Manager (Battery and Fleets)

Location:

(HEU) London- Broadgate

Job ID:

R0062264

Date Posted:

2024-09-18

Company Name:

HITACHI EUROPE LTD.

Profession (Job Category):

Sales, Marketing & Product Management

Job Schedule: 

Full time

Remote:

No

Job Description:

Our Company

Hitachi drives Social Innovation Business, creating a sustainable society through the use of data and technology. We solve customers' and society's challenges with Lumada solutions leveraging IT, OT (Operational Technology) and products. Hitachi operates under the business structure of “Digital Systems & Services” - supporting our customers’ digital transformation; “Green Energy & Mobility” - contributing to a decarbonized society through energy and railway systems, and “Connective Industries” - connecting products through digital technology to provide solutions in various industries. Driven by Digital, Green, and Innovation, we aim for growth through co-creation with our customers. The company’s consolidated revenues for fiscal year 2022 (ended March 31, 2023) totaled 10,881.1 billion yen, with 696 consolidated subsidiaries and approximately 320,000 employees worldwide. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at https://www.hitachi.com.

Hitachi is a Climate Change Innovator helping governments, cities and companies to cut carbon. Combining 113 years of experience in operational technology (OT) and over 60 years in IT, Hitachi’s Social Innovation Business (SIB) harnesses Hitachi’s broad capabilities in R&D to deliver cutting edge AI and IOT solutions in the core areas of transport, manufacturing and energy. We are working to connect solutions with the help of Hitachi’s Green Energy and Mobility, both physically and digitally, to deliver net-zero carbon.

About Hitachi's Business Group - Hitachi ZeroCarbon

Incubated within SIB, Hitachi ZeroCarbon (HZC) is Hitachi’s first social innovation scale-up business, launched in 2021. HZC provides solutions for commercial vehicle and public transport fleets across Europe, using a wider perspective on energy opportunities to improve fleet total cost of ownership and facilitate the transition to zero carbon. We aim to simplify and de-risk the process of switching to electric vehicles (EVs) by offering a comprehensive end-to-end approach, considering not just vehicles and charging infrastructure, but also financing, optimisation, energy procurement, as well as potential for energy storage and on-site generation. HZC is on an exciting growth trajectory as we scale up and globalise from our first customers in the UK and Europe to APAC and beyond.

The business is underpinned by an extensive technology capability. Utilising real-time data from customer EV fleets, charging stations and energy infrastructure, we manage all EV related operations through our cloud platform, optimising energy consumption and maximising asset availability and lifetime.

This functionality is made available through our 3 product modules today:

• ZeroCarbon Strategy: Future fleet electrification planning based on modelling and simulation

• ZeroCarbon Battery: EV Battery management and optimisation, driven by electrochemical modelling and machine learning

• ZeroCarbon Charge: Real-time IOT monitoring, control and optimisation of EV fleet, chargers and energy assets.

What you’ll be doing

This role will be within the HZC Product and Technology team based at our London office. Reporting to our Product Lead, you will take responsibility for managing the parts of the product roadmap specifically related to battery management and optimisation, and fleet management solutions.

This is a varied role that will provide the opportunity to engage with stakeholders across the business, its customers and partners. Activities will include:

• Supporting the definition of our overarching product vision and articulating our value propositions

• Defining the product backlog, working with sales and customer stakeholders

• Participating in customer proposals and presentations

• Working with the development teams as part of the delivery of new functionality against the roadmap

• Supporting our marketing teams in the generation of product documentation and sales collateral

• Participating in bid-teams when generating sales proposals

This is an exciting opportunity that will allow for rapid growth in responsibility for ambitious candidates.

What you bring to the team

Education / qualifications / experience:

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 3 days/week working at Hitachi Office (Broadgate Tower, 20 Primrose Street, EC2A 2EW)

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and background:

• Engineering, physics, computer science degree or equivalent experience

• Commercial experience working in a technical product management role or as a business analyst

• Experience working on data focussed projects and ability to communicate principals around collecting, storing, sharing & analysing data is a plus

• Experience interacting directly with development and delivery teams

• Excellent MS Office skills, experience with other business intelligence tools (e.g. Power BI) an advantage

• Technical knowledge of the EV ecosystem, mobility and battery technology a strong plus

• Strong interest in sustainability, energy and transport

Skills & Competencies Required:

• Soft Skills:

  • Strategic thinking and analysis: ability to understand and convey complex technical concepts simply; ability to extrapolate from trends and identify implications

  • Excellent communication: ability to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders, tailoring content and style according to audience

  • Time management: ability to maintain high quality work under time pressure

  • People skills: ability to challenge, influence and manage key stakeholders and work well within a team

• Self starter: proven ability to proactively develop and deliver a programme of activities to achieve an objective; ability to identify and pursue activities that will be supportive of business strategy

Benefits Package

Along with a market competitive salary and discretionary bonus scheme, employees have the option to work flexibly in line with our hybrid working model and we would be happy to discuss this with you during the hiring process.

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

If, like us, you’re pioneering, innovative and motivated to build a zero-carbon transportation future, accelerating the world’s transition to greener, more efficient mobility please get in touch!