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Job Description The opportunity Responsible for leading the planning and execution of R&D projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. Manage the entire project lifecycle by ensuring the proper implementation of required processes and maintaining compliance with relevant standards in quality, health, safety, and engineering, to achieve the targeted metrics. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and enhance project outcomes. How You'll Make An Impact - Leading and managing complex projects and coordinating work of multi-location and cross-functional project team/s. Motivating and monitoring internal and/or external resources to accomplish all tasks and milestones. - Managing the cost, schedule and performance objectives of the projects within a program. Managing interdependencies between projects to realize specified benefits. Ensuring appropriate requirements within a program by partnering with relevant business unit/s or other customers. Developing business case. - Ensuring understanding of customer value in the projects and acting to ensure customer satisfaction and manage expectations. Ability to organize and motivate internal domain expert teams to support project execution and safeguarding the technical guidance provided from their side is followed within deliverables. - Ensuring transparency around change requests, unforeseen results/events and identified risks and ensuring that they are properly managed and communicated. Ensuring that all opportunities are captured and acted upon. - Serving as the key contact for stakeholders, and an escalation point for program/project issues. Effectively communicating appropriate information to stakeholders in a timely manner and to achieve desired understanding and support. - Leading in partnership with business managers, steering committees, product management, other internal functions and external parties. Coordinating activities with product and business management. - Initiating the development of and implementing project management requirements, processes, methods, techniques, tools, handbooks and guidelines. - Developing, managing and expanding relationships with stakeholders, internal functions, Corporate Research Centers and external relevant parties (e.g. customers, universities). Providing proposals for possible partnerships. - Living Hitachi Energy's core values safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business. - Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines. Your Background - Master's degree in engineering. - More than 5 years of experience in project management, either for R&D projects or other type. - Experience with transformers and product development will be a large advantage - Proven knowledge and experience in project management tools, including gate model. - Strong commitment to safe work practices and dedication to following all relevant workplace safety guidelines. - Used to teamwork in international teams with excellent interpersonal skills. - International mobility: availability to lead international R&D projects within transformers organization. - Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives. With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.