Remote Service Pre-Sales Team Lead

hitachi; Stone; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Team Leader, Service Pre-Sales in the UK to ensure that every service proposal is technically robust, consistent and commercially supportable. You’ll lead a two-person team that supports bids, providing technical clarification, solution definition, risk identification and cross-domain coordination.

You’ll bridge sales, engineering and operations, acting as the technical anchor for bids and ensuring feasibility, alignment to standards and clear customer articulation.

Qualifications

• Strong track record in technical presales, particularly new service business and long-term contract sales.
• Experience with tendering, creating offers and providing technical and commercial support to sales in energy/utilities or related industries.
• Proven experience as a people manager with a passion for developing sales talent.
• Engineering background acceptable if field experience is demonstrated.
• Ability to clearly articulate service value—reliability, performance, lifecycle cost and risk reduction.
• Strong communication, presentation and negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of service sales professionals, creating a motivated, high-performance culture.
• Be the main contact point providing technical pre-sales support for all service bids.
• Own the technical consistency and quality of service proposals across domains.
• Coordinate technical inputs across engineering, operations, and service units.
• Support bid strategy by identifying risks, dependencies, and solution options early.
• Enable multi-domain bids through integrated technical solutioning.
• Act as escalation point for technically complex or high-risk service opportunities.
• Work with the wider leadership Service Operations team to ensure sellable, deliverable and profitable service solutions.

Skills

Technical presales

People management

Tendering

Energy sector experience

Negotiation

Job description

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Team Leader, Service Pre-Sales in the UK to ensure that every service proposal is technically robust, consistent and commercially supportable. You’ll lead a two-person team that supports bids, providing technical clarification, solution definition, risk identification and cross-domain coordination.

You’ll bridge sales, engineering and operations, acting as the technical anchor for bids and ensuring feasibility, alignment to standards and clear customer articulation.