Service Pre‐Sales Technical Team Lead

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; Stone; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy UK Limited is seeking a Team Leader, Service Pre-Sales to ensure service proposals are technically robust and commercially sound. You will lead a small team (2 people) that supports service tenders, providing technical clarification and cross-domain coordination.

The role bridges sales, engineering and operations, ensuring proposals are feasible, standards-aligned and clearly articulated to customers.

Qualifications

• Strong track record in technical presales for service contracts.
• Experience in tendering and providing technical and commercial support to sales.
• Proven people management and leadership in a service environment.
• Engineering background with ability to articulate service value and lifecycle costs.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team (2 people) to support service tenders.
• Provide technical clarification and cross-domain coordination.
• Ensure proposals are technically robust, consistent, and commercially sound.
• Bridge sales, engineering and operations to deliver feasible solutions.

Skills

Technical presales

People management

Leadership

Contract support

Negotiation

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Location: Stone, Staffordshire, United Kingdom Job ID: R0127653 Date Posted: 2026-05-14 Company Name: HITACHI ENERGY UK LIMITED Profession (Job Category): Sales, Marketing & Product Management Job Schedule: Full time Remote: Yes

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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