Application Portfolio Lead

Our Company
We're Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world's potential. We're people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what's now to what's next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don't expect you to 'fit' every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

The role

• Lead end-to-end transformation programs: define roadmaps, design future-state processes, implement systems and technologies.
• Manage complex, multi-disciplinary projects including MES rollouts, sustainability platforms, asset master data initiatives, and IoT/ML implementations and Support Projects (AMS) across diverse geographies and industries.
• Execute Lean and Operational Excellence initiatives: process mapping, performance system design, and continuous improvement embedding.
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement across functions and levels: conduct workshops, align cross-functional teams, and maintain strategic direction.
• Oversee full program lifecycle: from diagnosis and feasibility to deployment and steady-state operations, ensuring delivery of KPIs and financial impact.

What You'll Bring

• Strategic Planning & Business Development: Opportunity identification, benefit sizing, and budget alignment.
• Operational Excellence: Expertise in Lean Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, and process optimization.
• Transformation Execution: Proven ability to deliver AMS/ERP/MES/IoT/analytics solutions with tangible outcomes.
• Technology Fluency: Familiarity with IIoT, AI/ML, SAP PM, and next-gen MES platforms.
• Leadership & Communication: Skilled in stakeholder management, team leadership, and change enablement.
• Personal Attributes: Adaptable, self-driven, results-oriented, and committed to delivering as promised.

Industry Understanding

• Energy & Utilities: Optimization programs for large asset-intensive businesses; sustainability and IoT initiatives.
• Manufacturing & Industrial experience
• Cross-functional Expertise: Supply chain, asset governance, performance management, and digital transformation.
• Global Project Exposure

About Us
We're a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How We Look After You
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status
or any other protected characteristic.
Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.