Product Manager

Job Title: Product Manager

As a Product Manager, you will work under the Regional Product Manager (RPM) for Power Transformer (PT) within HUB APMEA. Your role focuses on enhancing competitiveness, conducting benchmarking, monitoring technology trends, and supporting regional product strategies. This position drives innovation by analyzing market trends, customer requirements, benchmarking offerings, and monitoring technology developments across portfolios to generate new ideas, strengthen competitiveness, and improve opportunities. Within the Power Transformer Product Line, your primary responsibility will be to enhance competitiveness and support the RPM in tracking regional roadmaps across different portfolios. This leverages your expertise in power transformer design, comprehensive understanding of project specifications, scheduling, cost estimation, and effective cross-functional collaboration with departments such as Engineering, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Marketing & Sales (M&S), Production, and Finance across 5 PT factories under APMEA. You will also collaborate with Global Product Managers (GPM) and Global TopGun (TG) Designers as necessary. Additionally, you will be tasked with monitoring progress and performance and implementing necessary actions to successfully complete projects. The role allows you to develop solutions, collaborate with HUB APMEA PT teams, and support the organization's long-term success in a competitive market.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Define and implement regional product roadmap initiatives aligned with market demand across HUB APMEA.
• Support the RPM in providing regional MRS including applicable business case to GPMs and business case for R&D initiatives.
• Enhance competitiveness by delivering solutions that fulfill customer requirements and align with industry standards, including the optimization of transformer designs and all associated costs.
• Lead the implementation, validating savings and business cases for DtV projects.
• Review designs, facilitate design concept evaluations, and collaborate with different stakeholders as necessary to achieve competitiveness for PT factories within HUB APMEA.
• Work closely with the M&S team to assess and reach consensus on strategic opportunities required to enhance competitiveness and systematically track progress initiatives with relevant teams.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of both market conditions and competitor strengths and weaknesses.
• Maintain alignment with regional competitiveness initiatives; coordinate with various cross-functional departments, including Engineering, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Marketing & Sales (M&S) and Production across five PT factories within APMEA.
• Provide support to the Regional Product Manager (RPM) in implementing frameworks and strategies for Power Transformer under HUB APMEA.
• Develop training programs for stakeholders.
• Ensure all activities adhere to internal and external policies and regulations relevant to regional product management and competitive analysis.
• Live Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity.

Your background:

• Bachelor's degree in electrical or mechanical engineering (Master's degree is an asset).
• Minimum of five years’ experience in an engineering role, ideally in the power transformer industry.
• Knowledge of product analytics and competitive analysis skills are advantageous.
• Strong technical understanding of manufacturing process of power transformer and industry technologies.
• In-depth understanding of engineering software tools and ability to develop new creative ideas to enhance competitiveness for power transformer.
• Understanding of analytical and quantitative skills with expertise in data analysis tools (e.g., Excel, Power BI).
• Good communication and presentation skills; adapt at translating complex data into actionable strategies.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and a proactive, innovative approach.
• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to high-quality outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional and regionally diverse teams.