The opportunity

Hitachi Energy is seeking an Innovation Business Development Lead to join the Global Innovation Organization within the Transformers Business Unit. In this pivotal and influential role, you will drive the creation, validation, and scaling of transformative technology solutions that directly shape the future of our products, engineering capabilities, and digital innovation.

Acting as the strategic bridge between technology, business, and external ecosystems, you will lead high‑value initiatives that leverage open innovation, advanced engineering tools, and cross‑functional collaboration. Your mission is to turn emerging technologies into competitive advantages, starting with the opportunities identification and leading the process of roadmap execution, pilot validation, and global rollout.

This is an exceptional chance for a senior innovation leader for transforming innovation opportunities into validated business cases, strategic partnerships, pilot projects, and scalable growth opportunities. The role bridges technology, market needs, customers,



and external ecosystems to ensure innovation delivers measurable business value. In this role you will drive customer discovery, market validation, partnership development, startup engagement, and commercialization activities from a disruptive perspective while collaborating closely with technology, product management, R&D;, and business leadership.

How You Will Make An Impact

Identify and evaluate emerging business opportunities, market trends, customer needs, and disruptive technologies.
Translate market intelligence, competitor analysis, and ecosystem assessments, strategic priorities into innovation initiatives, pilots, and growth opportunities.
Develop business cases and recommendations for investment decisions.
Support innovation portfolio prioritization and roadmap development.
Lead customer discovery activities and voice-of-customer programs.
Validate use cases, value propositions, and marke

📌 Innovation Business Development Lead (Vadodara)
🏢 Hitachi Energy
📍 Vadodara