Service Pre‑Sales Technical Team Lead

Hitachi Vantara Corporation; Stone; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy in the United Kingdom is hiring a Team Leader, Service Pre‑Sales to ensure technically robust service proposals while enabling sales teams to bid confidently. You will lead a two‑person team, coordinating across engineering, operations and service units to deliver sellable, risk‑aware solutions.

The role requires a strong track record in technical presales, tendering experience and proven people management. Visa support is not available for this position.

Qualifications

• Experience in technical presales for service offerings.
• Ability to lead and coach a small team.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead 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.
• Identify risks, dependencies and solution options early to support bid strategy.

Skills

Technical presales

People management

Engineering background

Tendering

Communication

Job description

Job Description:

The opportunity

Hitachi Energy is entering an exciting phase of growth in our UK Service organisation, and we’re looking for a Team Leader, Service Pre‑Sales that ensures that every service proposal is technically robust, consistent, and commercially supportable.

Within this role you will be enabling sales teams to bid with confidence across simple and complex opportunities.

You lead a small team (2 people) that support all service tenders, providing technical clarification, solution definition, risk identification, and cross‑domain coordination. Acting as the technical anchor for bids, you bridge sales, engineering, and operations to ensure solutions are feasible, aligned to standards, and clearly articulated to customers.

This is a role for someone who enjoys leading people, influencing customers, and creating value over the full asset lifecycle—not just closing a single deal.

Please note we are unable to provide visa support on this position.

How you’ll make an impact

• Leading, coaching and developing 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.
• Working along the wider leadership Service Operations team to ensure sellable, deliverable and profitable service solutions.

Your background

• A strong track record in technical presales, particularly new service business and long‑term contract sales.
• Experience within tendering, creating offers and providing technical and commercial support to sales ideally in energy, utilities, transmission, distribution or industrial environments highly desirable.
• Proven experience as a people manager, with a passion for developing and coaching sales talent.
• An engineering background in lieu of proven track record within the field.
• The ability to clearly articulate service value—reliability, performance, lifecycle cost and risk reduction.
• Strong communication, presentation and negotiation skills.

Build a team. Grow a service business. Make a long‑term impact.

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Background Screening and Security Checks

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