Strategy Project Manager

Overview

Strategy Project Manager at the APAC Service Hub, building the analytical foundation across nine Local Service Units and developing portfolio and partnership initiatives to support Hub growth.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain a consistent fact base for each of the nine LSUs: historical orders, revenue and margin by service product line, installed base coverage, customer and segment mix, win/loss history, and delivery capacity.
• Assemble the forward view (opportunity pipeline, framework agreements, tender calendars, installed base ageing and renewal windows) and reconcile it against the historical baseline.
• Define the data standard and reporting cadence so every LSU reports on comparable terms, and work with LSU sales, operations, and finance teams to close data gaps at source.
• Produce an inside-out assessment for each LSU covering competitive position, delivery capacity, and portfolio penetration, together with the drivers behind each.
• Consolidate the nine LSU views into a single Hub picture, separating locally specific gaps from gaps that repeat across markets.
• Size each gap in orders and margin terms so priorities can be set on an evidence-based footing.
• Build dashboards and visual narratives for Hub, BU, and Group forums.
• Benchmark LSU performance against external market data, competitor activity, and comparable Hitachi Energy hubs to distinguish execution drivers from portfolio drivers.
• Own the assessment of the APAC service portfolio against market requirements, analyze drivers of conversion, and define the Hub portfolio action plan.
• Translate each portfolio gap into a scoped initiative with a business case, investment requirement, target markets, and measurable outcome.
• Work with Global Product Groups and BU portfolio owners so APAC requirements are reflected in global service product roadmaps.
• Search within Hitachi Energy first for offerings, capabilities, and delivery models that already exist elsewhere, and build the case to transfer them into APAC.
• Map the external market where required capability sits outside the group, and maintain that map as a live view.
• Develop partnership, alliance, and channel proposals, including commercial logic, value split, and key terms.
• Support the inorganic agenda end to end: target screening, initial engagement, valuation inputs, commercial and operational due diligence, and integration planning, working with M&A, Legal, and Finance.
• Take agreed initiatives from concept to investment decision and then to a working pilot in a lead LSU; build a playbook for replication across the remaining LSUs.
• Track initiative performance against the business case, escalate when the case no longer holds, and maintain a prioritized initiative portfolio.
• Work with and influence LSU Managers, sales leaders, and operations leaders across nine countries, building alignment through influence rather than formal authority.
• Act as thought partner to the Strategy & Business Development Director and represent the Hub in BU and Group strategy, portfolio, and corporate development forums.

What you'll need

• Ability to assemble and reconcile historical and forward performance data across multiple markets and business lines.
• Analytical depth in strategy, portfolio assessment, and market benchmarking.
• Experience building executive-ready dashboards and visual narratives.
• Experience with business cases, investment decisions, and initiative tracking.
• Experience supporting partnership, alliance, channel, or M&A activity (screening, due diligence, integration planning).
• Ability to influence stakeholders across several countries and cultures without formal authority.

Details

• Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
• Employment type: Full time.
• Not remote.