Service Pre-Sales Team Lead & Bid Strategy

Hitachi, Ltd.; Stone; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy UK is seeking a Team Leader, Service Pre-Sales to lead a small team of two and ensure that every service proposal is technically robust, consistent and commercially supportable. You will enable sales teams to bid with confidence across simple and complex opportunities, acting as the technical anchor for bids and coordinating across engineering, operations and service units.

The role calls for someone who enjoys developing people, influencing customers and delivering value across

Qualifications

• Proven track record in technical presales for service offerings.
• Experience with tendering, creating offers and providing sales support.
• Experience managing a small team and coaching sales talent.
• Engineering background or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of service sales professionals.
• Provide technical pre-sales support for all service bids.
• Ensure technical consistency and quality across proposals.
• Coordinate inputs from engineering, operations and service units.
• Identify risks and options early to support bid strategy.
• Enable multi-domain bids through integrated solutioning.
• Act as escalation point for complex opportunities.
• Collaborate with Service Operations to ensure sellable, deliverable solutions.

Skills

Technical presales

People management

Bid coordination

Energy sector experience

Job description

Hitachi Energy UK is seeking a Team Leader, Service Pre-Sales to lead a small team of two and ensure that every service proposal is technically robust, consistent and commercially supportable. You will enable sales teams to bid with confidence across simple and complex opportunities, acting as the technical anchor for bids and coordinating across engineering, operations and service units.

The role calls for someone who enjoys developing people, influencing customers and delivering value across