Service Pre-Sales Lead: Technical Bid Architect

Hitachi ABB Power Grids; Stone; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy in the UK is seeking a Team Leader for Service Pre-Sales to ensure technically robust and commercially supportable service proposals. You will enable sales teams to bid with confidence across simple and complex opportunities, leading a small team that provides technical clarification, solution definition, risk identification, and cross‑domain coordination.

This role anchors bids technically, bridging sales, engineering, and operations to ensure feasible, standards-aligned, and

Qualifications

• Proven track record in technical pre-sales and new service business.
• Experience in tendering, offers, and providing technical and commercial support.
• Strong leadership and coaching skills for sales talent.

Responsibilities

• Be the main contact point providing technical pre-sales support for 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 options early.
• Enable multi-domain bids through integrated technical solutioning.
• Act as escalation point for technically complex or high-risk opportunities.

Skills

Technical pre-sales

People management

Cross-domain coordination

Bid support

Communication

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Hitachi Energy in the UK is seeking a Team Leader for Service Pre-Sales to ensure technically robust and commercially supportable service proposals. You will enable sales teams to bid with confidence across simple and complex opportunities, leading a small team that provides technical clarification, solution definition, risk identification, and cross‑domain coordination.

This role anchors bids technically, bridging sales, engineering, and operations to ensure feasible, standards-aligned, and