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Our Company

Hitachi drives Social Innovation Business, creating a sustainable society through the use of data and technology. We are a climate change innovator, partnering with cities, governments and companies to cut carbon. We are working to connect solutions with the help of Hitachi’s Green Energy and Mobility both physically and digitally to deliver net-zero. The company’s consolidated revenues for fiscal year 2023 (ended March 31, 2024) totalled 8,564.3 billion yen, and approximately 268,000 employees worldwide. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at https://www.hitachi.com

The Global Marketing & Sales (GM&S) transformation team, established in 2022, seeks to position Hitachi as a trusted partner for its customers by providing impactful, sustainable solutions by experts spanning the full breadth of One Hitachi’s portfolio.

Building on its initial achievements, the team will upscale its activities in FY25 to broaden its scope, expand its account portfolio, and strategically map Hitachi's positioning for customers across the entire market. This approach aims to further unlock the potential of One Hitachi, delivering enhanced value propositions and strengthening partnerships through a more integrated and comprehensive market presence.

This is an ideal development opportunity for a experienced Hitachi self-starter wishing to build a career at Hitachi. It will come with significant exposure and career development opportunity.

What you’ll be doing

In support of Hitachi’s Inspire ‘27 business growth plan, we are bringing together our organization so our commercial teams and our customers can understand our vast and unique problem-solving capabilities.

As a key tool in simplifying our complexity, Hitachi’s first visual storytelling tools, a library of sector ‘landscapes’, are successfully demonstrating Hitachi’s group solutions to internal and external audiences alike – showing the power of our combined solution capabilities. There is a need to maintain and expand our approach to visual storytelling, engaging specialist animators to assist.

Hitachi’s first visual storytelling tools, a library of sector ‘landscapes’, are successfully demonstrating Hitachi’s group solutions to internal and external audiences alike – showing the power of our combined solution capabilities. There is a need to maintain and expand our approach to visual storytelling, engaging specialist animators to assist.

A visual marketing project manager will deliver additional market visualizations, maintain the current tools and explore further expansion of visual storytelling to better portray Hitachi’s innovation, digital, co-creation and partnership/consultation capabilities.

Initially a one-year project or secondment, this is a great career development opportunity bringing exposure across Hitachi group and the ability to work on high-profile materials to be used at all levels of the organization. A unique opportunity to develop your career, Hitachi’s creative storytelling and embody the ‘one Hitachi’ ethos.

As an experienced marketeer and project manager, you will:

• Create a visual storytelling project brief, execution plan and budget.

• Select, brief and manage creative partners.

• Define and engage key internal stakeholders and establish a contributor working group (RACI).

• Work closely with Global Marketing and Sales segment marketing and ABM teams to integrate projects into priority focus areas.

• Manage tool development, approval and internal content coordination, approval and launch.

• Devise a roll out plan, identifying key opportunities for high profile exposure to internal and customer audience.

• Devise and execute process to ensure tools and materials are kept up to date and relevant to internal and customer audience through regular review.

• Establish success metrics.

What you bring to the team

We are looking for a team player, who is motivated by delivering great work and the Hitachi vision. Under our hybrid working model, employees can work flexibly from home or the office, depending on business requirements.

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and background:

• 5+ years international B2B marketing

• Proven ability to build strong relationships with sales, senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, who can navigate complex, matrix organizational structures to coordinate cross-functional efforts.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution.

• Strong curiosity and problem-solving skills, using data, analytics and insights to refine ABM strategies and uncover new opportunities.

• Excellent planning, analytical, project management skills.

• Cultural sensitivity and openness to work in an international business environment.

Although this position is posted as being based in the EU region, Singapore or India we are open to applications with the right skill set outside of these locations and will consider secondments.

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 motivated by delivering first class services, thrive in a fast paced and supportive environment and want to help Hitachi to drive social innovation, we’d love to hear from you.