MES Practice and Solution Lead for Europe

Hitachi Digital Services; Kraków; On-site; PLN 280,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Digital Services seeks a senior leader to head the Europe MES Practice, defining and executing regional MES strategy, driving growth, and establishing the company as a trusted Manufacturing IT and Smart Factory transformation partner across industries.

The role encompasses business development, pre-sales engagement, and end-to-end delivery of large-scale MES/Manufacturing IT transformations across Europe, with emphasis on ISA-95/ISA-88 standards, ERP/SCADA/PLC integrations, and mentoring

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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 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.

Skills

Consulting experience

Client engagement

Pre-sales

Solution architecture

Business development

Delivery leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline

Job description

Our Company
We're Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world's potential. We're people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what's now to what's next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. 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.

• 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, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.

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.