MES Practice and Solution Lead for Europe

Hitachi; Kraków; On-site; PLN 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Digital seeks a seasoned leader to head the Europe MES Practice, defining strategy, growing offerings, and establishing Hitachi Digital Services as a trusted Manufacturing IT and Smart Factory partner across industries.

You will drive business development, shape roadmaps, run solution workshops, prepare proposals, develop estimates, and guide large-scale MES and Manufacturing IT transformation programs in Europe.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline.
• 12+ years of experience in Manufacturing IT and MES.
• Significant consulting, client engagement, pre-sales, and delivery leadership in manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Europe MES Practice by defining and executing the regional MES strategy.
• Drive business development and pre-sales activities with clients and proposals.
• Develop and enhance MES offerings, accelerators, and partnerships.
• Lead end-to-end MES and Manufacturing IT transformation programs across Europe.
• Provide technical leadership on architecture, ISA-95/ISA-88 adoption, and system integrations.
• Build strategic client relationships and drive long-term account growth.
• Guide delivery teams and mentor MES capabilities.

Skills

MES

Manufacturing IT

Solution architecture

Business development

Delivery leadership

Pre-sales

Consulting

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering/CS

Job description

Function

IoT

Our Company

We’re Hitachi Digital, a company at the forefront of digital transformation and the fastest growing division of Hitachi Group. We’re crucial to the company’s strategy and ambition to become a premier global player in the massive and fast-moving digital transformation market.

Our group companies, including GlobalLogic, Hitachi Digital Services, Hitachi Vantara and more, offer comprehensive services that span the entire digital lifecycle, from initial idea to full-scale operation and the infrastructure to run it on. Hitachi Digital represents One Hitachi, integrating domain knowledge and digital capabilities, and harnessing the power of the entire portfolio of services, technologies, and partnerships, to accelerate synergy creation and make real-world impact for our customers and society as a whole.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to unleash a digital future. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

Job description

• Lead the Europe MES Practice by defining and executing the regional MES strategy, driving practice growth, building service offerings, and establishing Hitachi Digital Services as a trusted Manufacturing IT and Smart Factory transformation partner across industries.
• Drive business development and pre-sales activities by engaging with clients, understanding business challenges, shaping digital manufacturing roadmaps, leading solution workshops, preparing proposals/RFP responses, developing effort estimates, and supporting sales pursuits to win new business.
• Develop and enhance MES offerings by creating reusable accelerators, industry-specific solutions, implementation methodologies, and partnerships
• Lead end-to-end solution delivery for large-scale Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and Manufacturing IT transformation programs, ensuring successful project execution, solution quality, governance, stakeholder management, and customer satisfaction across Europe.
• Provide technical and consulting leadership by guiding solution architecture, manufacturing process optimization, ISA-95/ISA-88 standards adoption, integration with ERP, SCADA, PLC, Historians, and Industrial IoT platforms, while mentoring delivery teams and developing MES capabilities.
• Build and manage strategic client relationships with manufacturing executives and plant leadership, acting as a trusted advisor to identify digital transformation opportunities, expand existing engagements, and drive long-term account growth.
• Required Qualifications: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline with 12+ years of experience in Manufacturing IT and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), including significant experience in consulting, client engagement, pre-sales, solution architecture, business development, and delivery leadership within discrete and/or process manufacturing industries.

About us

We’re a global, 1000-stong, diverse team of professional experts, promoting and delivering Social Innovation through our One Hitachi initiative (OT x IT x Product) and working on projects that have a real-world impact. We’re curious, passionate and empowered, blending our legacy of 110 years of innovation with our shaping our future. Here you’re not just another employee; you’re part of a tradition of excellence and a community working towards creating a digital future.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.