Team Lead - Sales and tendering

hitachi; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Technology Services Private Limited in Chennai invites a senior professional to lead a Sales & Tendering team across AIS products and HUB units. You will mentor, align goals, and drive performance development discussions while coordinating with units to meet targets and developmental plans.

The role requires 12+ years in electrical sales/tendering, GIS and HV product knowledge, and strong leadership for complex tenders. Expect on-site duties and collaboration across multiple units.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree is required with Electrical specialization preferred.
• Strong leadership and team coaching skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration with multiple units.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a diverse sales & tendering team across units.
• Collaborate with production units to align goals and drive performance development discussions.
• Coach team members to achieve business and career objectives.
• Monitor KPIs for INOPC units and ensure timely resource planning and onboarding.
• Oversee tender execution, offer submission, and invoice/payment follow-ups.
• Ensure compliance with internal and external regulations and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder alignment

Communications

Education

Engineering degree (Electrical preferred)

Job description

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Job ID: R0136584

Date Posted: 2026-07-10

Company Name: HITACHI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED

Profession (Job Category): Sales, Marketing & Product Management

Job Schedule: Full time

Remote: No

Job Description:

The opportunity:

This role involves Lead a diverse group of Sales & Tendering resources supporting different production & operating units of AIS products and HUB's. Drive standardisation, best practice sharing and knowledge development for the team members to support all stakeholders.

How you'll make an impact:

• As Expert professional, you will be mentoring the team
• Collaborte closely with the respective units / counterparts, define and align on goals for each individual - lead the Performance development discussions.
• Coach the team members and support their development to achieve business and their career goals.
• Regular connect with counterparts and responsible for monitoring & maintaining the Key KPI's of INOPC for respective units.
• Proactively plan and hire the resources as required by units and also lead the efforts for onboarding and training till new resource is operational.
• Key focus on behavioural competence of the team members and further development.
• Leverage best practice learnings from other teams and support in horizontal deployment of learnings in other teams after alignment with units.
• Responsible for financials, related to services provided to various Units's. (Offer submission, PO followup, invoice submission and payment collections)
• Active Particiation in continuous improvement activities and QMS.
• Responsible for deliverable of complete team and able to work on complex tenders/projects (30-40%) as individual contributor.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

Your Background:

• Graduate in Engineering; Electrical engineering gets Preference with Minimum Experience of 12 years.
• HV Products & Transformers depth technical knowledge.
• Must have 5 years of prior expereince under Sales & tendering in execution of GIS, Other HV products or Substation projects.
• Should possess strong leadership skills and ability to align / agree and challenge decisions with stakeholders in the interest of the business and collaboration.
• Excellent communications skills and strong Ability to drive discussions to enable best collaboration with LPG.

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Background Screening and Security Checks

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