Service Sales Engineer | Vaasa, Finland

Hitachi Energy Ltd.; Vaasa; Hybrid; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Career development in service sales

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Ltd. seeks a Service Sales Engineer to support the Proactive Sales team in Finland (Vaasa, Lappeenranta, or Vantaa). The role focuses on turning customer needs into practical service solutions, preparing quotations, and coordinating tender activities.

You will collaborate with customers, sales colleagues, and internal experts to ensure solutions meet requirements and standards while supporting profitable growth. Hybrid work is offered.

Qualifications

• Technical background with degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Knowledge of MV/HV substations and related products.
• Experience in sales or customer-facing roles is an advantage.
• Ability to learn power systems and high-voltage equipment.

Responsibilities

• Support Proactive Sales in developing customer opportunities and driving sales actions.
• Prepare technical and commercial quotations, proposals, and tender submissions.
• Coordinate bid activities to ensure accurate and timely submissions.
• Ensure proposals meet customer specs, technical standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Identify service opportunities and create customer value guiding solutions.

Skills

Sales experience

Customer-facing

Project management

Technical support

Communication

Collaboration

Finnish fluency

English fluency

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Job description

We are now looking for a Service Sales Engineer for our Business Unit Service in Vaasa, Lappeenranta or Vantaa, Finland.

In this role, you will support the Proactive Sales team in developing customer opportunities and preparing competitive technical and commercial proposals. You will work closely with sales colleagues, customers, and internal experts to understand customer requirements, prepare quotations, and coordinate tender activities. Your role is to ensure that proposed solutions meet customer requirements, comply with applicable standards and regulations, and support profitable business growth. Success in this position requires a strong technical mindset, a customer-oriented approach, and the ability to turn customer needs into practical service solutions.

How you'll make an impact

• Support the Proactive Sales team in developing customer opportunities and driving sales activities.
• Support the development of long-term customer relationships by identifying service opportunities and creating customer value.
• Collaborate closely with customers, sales colleagues, and internal experts throughout the sales process.
• Analyze customer requirements and identify the most suitable technical and commercial solutions.
• Prepare technical and commercial quotations, proposals, and tender submissions.
• Ensure proposals comply with customer specifications, applicable technical standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate bid and tender activities to ensure accurate and timely submissions.
• Support business growth and sales targets by providing high-quality technical and commercial support.
• Take ownership of sales opportunities and analyze previous cases to identify lessons learned and improve future competitiveness.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of sales support processes, tools, and documentation.

Your background

• Technical background, preferably with a degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Knowledge of MV/HV substations, related products, and technologies.
• Previous experience in sales, customer-facing roles, project business, or technical support is considered an advantage.
• Ability and willingness to learn and understand power systems, transformers, high-voltage equipment, and related services.
• Self-driven way of working and ability to manage multiple sales opportunities simultaneously.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Fluent Finnish and English.

What we offer

• Opportunity to contribute to the energy transition by supporting customers in maintaining, upgrading, and extending the lifetime of critical power infrastructure.
• Opportunity to work with some of the most critical assets in the energy sector.
• A versatile and independent role combining customer interaction, technical expertise, and business development.
• Opportunity to develop into a recognized expert in service sales within the power industry, supported by experienced technical specialists and a collaborative service organization

More about us

Interviews will be conducted as candidates apply, and the position will be filled once a suitable candidate is found.

For more information about the recruitment process, please contact Tomi Haapaniemi, LSU Sales Manager, at [phone].

Job type Full time

Work arrangement Hybrid

Experience Experienced

Job function Sales, Marketing & Product Management

Contract Regular

Publication date 2026-10-15

Reference number R0123829

About Hitachi Energy

We are a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission-critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world’s energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD.