Strategic Alliance PMO Lead, NAM

Hitachi Energy; Isle Forest (NC); Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement benefits

Paid leave

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Ltd. seeks a Strategic Alliance PMO Lead, NAM to coordinate commercial and operational activities with strategic partners across North America.

This remote role, ideally based in Dallas, TX, drives governance, reporting, and performance analytics to enable growth and efficiency. The candidate will manage end-to-end execution, align capacity, and support scalable operating models while engaging senior leadership and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years in strategic business programs, alliances, or enterprise-wide initiatives.
• Ability to engage and influence senior executives including VP and C-suite across functions.
• Strong understanding of commercial and operational processes including sales pipeline and capacity planning.
• Experience establishing governance frameworks and driving accountability across stakeholders.
• Experience with strategic partnerships, joint ventures, M&A integration, or business transformation preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead alliance governance, executive reporting, and escalation management.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities between Hitachi Energy and strategic partners.
• Consolidate opportunities, demand forecasts, and pipelines for joint planning.
• Align capacity, resources, and supply planning to meet commitments.
• Drive end-to-end execution from opportunity development to order fulfillment.
• Develop dashboards for KPIs across commercial, operational, and financial areas.
• Identify risks and improvement opportunities and coordinate corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance with external and internal regulations and guidelines.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Executive stakeholder management

Strategic alliance management

Demand forecasting

Governance and oversight

Job description

The Opportunity

The Strategic Alliance PMO Lead, NAM serves as the central interface between Hitachi Energy businesses and strategic partners, coordinating commercial and operational activities to support alliance goals across North America. This role establishes and manages alliance governance, including business reviews, executive reporting, performance tracking, and escalation processes while driving accountability across participating organizations. The position coordinates commercial demand planning, sales activities, operational capacity alignment, and end-to-end business execution from opportunity development through order fulfillment. The role also oversees alliance performance reporting, supports strategic resource allocation, identifies opportunities to strengthen collaboration, and helps implement scalable operating models that enable sustainable growth, operational efficiency, and improved business outcomes. This is a remote position, preferably based out of Dallas, TX.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Manage alliance governance processes, including business reviews, executive reporting, performance monitoring, and escalation management.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities between Hitachi Energy businesses and strategic partners to align commercial and operational priorities.
• Consolidate sales opportunities, demand forecasts, and pipelines to support joint sales planning and opportunity prioritization.
• Facilitate collaboration between sales teams to clarify ownership, customer engagement activities, and commercial execution.
• Align operational capacity, resource availability, and supply planning to support business commitments and delivery requirements.
• Coordinate end-to-end execution from opportunity development through order fulfillment, ensuring visibility to milestones, backlog, and delivery commitments.
• Develop and maintain integrated performance dashboards covering commercial, operational, and financial KPIs.
• Identify performance gaps, business risks, capacity constraints, and improvement opportunities, coordinating corrective actions across stakeholders.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

Your Background

• Candidate must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in the United States.
• 10+ years of experience in strategic business program management, strategic alliances, business integration, or enterprise-wide commercial and operational initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional business programs involving commercial, operational, and executive leadership stakeholders.
• Proven ability to engage and influence senior executives, including VP and C-suite stakeholders, across multiple business functions or organizations.
• Strong understanding of commercial and operational processes, including sales pipeline management, demand forecasting, resource planning, operational capacity, and business performance.
• Experience establishing governance frameworks, coordinating strategic business initiatives, managing risks, and driving accountability across multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to translate business strategy into actionable plans, coordinate execution, and measure progress against commercial, operational, and financial objectives.
• Experience with strategic partnerships, joint ventures, M&A integration, or business transformation within the energy, utilities, industrial services, engineering, or other complex industrial environments is strongly preferred.
• Strong communication, executive presentation, and stakeholder management skills.

More About Us

Working at Hitachi Energy provides the opportunity to contribute to meaningful business and operational initiatives that support the future of energy.

• Opportunities to work on innovative technologies shaping the future of energy
• A collaborative environment with experienced professionals
• Access to learning platforms and career development programs
• Competitive health and retirement benefits
• Paid leave and flexible work arrangements

Only candidates who are retained will be contacted.