Location:
(HEU) Sefton ParkJob ID:
R0054294Date Posted:
2024-06-12Company Name:
HITACHI EUROPE LTD.Profession (Job Category):
Creative & DesignJob Schedule:
Full timeRemote:
NoJob Description:
Our Company
Hitachi drives Social Innovation Business, creating a sustainable society through the use of data and technology. We solve customers' and society's challenges with Lumada solutions leveraging IT, OT (Operational Technology) and products. Hitachi operates under the business structure of “Digital Systems & Services” - supporting our customers’ digital transformation; “Green Energy & Mobility” - contributing to a decarbonized society through energy and railway systems, and “Connective Industries” - connecting products through digital technology to provide solutions in various industries. Driven by Digital, Green, and Innovation, we aim for growth through co-creation with our customers. The company’s consolidated revenues for fiscal year 2022 (ended March 31, 2023) totaled 10,881.1 billion yen, with 696 consolidated subsidiaries and approximately 320,000 employees worldwide. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at https://www.hitachi.com.
To help EMEA Environmental Business team to conceive, test, and build new digital platforms delivering green solutions applicable in energy, mobility and industrial sectors by combining work from multiple disciplines: User Research, Design, Usability, and Design Thinking.
Drive the end-to-end UX/UI design process for new digital platforms applicable to “New Business Innovation” (NBI).
Work under the project management leadership of NBI project leaders (part of EMEA EBD team)
Ensure engagement and inclusion of all key stakeholders, including internal (Region, BU, ..) and external parties (startups, partner companies, clients,..)
What you’ll be doing
The role will also be responsible for:
The process begins with customer development research, moves through the brainstorming process, and continues with rapid product iteration. Each incubation is focused on helping the NBI project teams define a platform solution concept, vision, and roadmap that Hitachi can build a business around. The UX Designer/Researcher helps keep the customer in the center throughout the incubation process.
You will bring knowledge of applying design thinking methods in the service of conceiving, validating and building products, including:
User Research: you will bring solid skills in conducting interviews, note-taking, deriving insight and clearly presenting findings. Over time, you will master script creation, scenario development, qualitative test strategy and persona development.
UX: you will understand Information Architecture and methods for organizing complex and diverse types of content, and methods for visualizing the customer context, customer journeys etc.
UI: you will be able to wireframe and prototype at various levels of fidelity.
Visual Design: you will bring a good understanding of visual hierarchy, grid systems, and typography.
Presentation design: you will be able to design compelling presentations and pitch decks that tell stories, communicating boldly and clearly.
You will have fluency in design programs such as Adobe creative cloud, Sketch, Balsamic, Invision, Keynote, PowerPoint:
What you bring to the team
We’re looking for a team player, who is motivated by delivering great work and the Hitachi vision. The role will be a mixture of remote-hybrid work with days in the Hitachi Office.
The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and background:
Bachelor's Degree and / or Masters in an area such as Finance, Business Administration, Sustainability Strategy, Technology & Information Management or equivalent
4+ years of professional experience, either or both in strategy and/or management support. Experience with startups is a plus.
Ability to support unit operation with impeccable inter-personal and reporting skills.
Versed into strategic analysis and taste for startup and corporate venture environment.
Detail-oriented, analytical, and inquisitive.
Extremely organized, inclination for structure and strong time-management skills
Experience of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Ability to understand big picture and to break-down into smaller operational pieces.
Works well under pressure.
Confident and credible communication skills: ability to foster collaboration across the unit and with external stakeholders.
Ability and taste to synthetize large amount of information into clear and crisp messages, presentation skills.
Fluency in English, a second European language is a plus
This role reports to Head of EMEA – Environmental Business Division and is opened in UK, Switzerland and Italy
Benefits Package
Company Funded Benefits
Along with a market competitive salary and discretionary bonus scheme, employees have the option to work flexibly in line with our hybrid working model and we would be happy to discuss this with you during the hiring process.
Generous holiday entitlement - with the option to buy up to an additional 5 days per year
A Holiday Banking scheme allowing you to bank untaken holiday to use another year
Group Personal Pension
Private Medical Insurance with self-funded option to cover family members
Employee Assistance Programme available to all employees
Personal Accident Insurance
Voluntary Benefits (funded by employee) including;
Cycle To Work scheme
Gym Membership
Dental Insurance with option to include dependent children
Health screening
Dining card
Our Values
We are proud to say we are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to any factor that doesn’t impact your ability to do the job, including race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. We are proud of Japanese heritage, with our values expressed through the Hitachi Spirit:
Wa – Harmony, Trust, Respect
Makoto – Sincerity, Fairness, Honesty, Integrity
Kaitakusha-Seishin – Pioneering Spirit, Challenge
If, like us, you’re motivated by delivering first class services, thrive in a fast paced and supportive environment and want to help Hitachi to drive social innovation, we’d love to hear from you.
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