Digital Innovation Lead

Company Description

Hitachi Solutions Europe is a global Digital, Data and Technology consultancy, Microsoft Gold partner and Cloud Services partner, specialising in end-to-end transformation.

As a global consultancy firm working across the private and public sectors, we specialise in Dynamics 365 Business Applications, Power Platform, including Azure, Application Modernisation and Data & Analytics.

Our highly skilled team help drive improvements, creating efficiency and growth within organisations. We are committed to Microsoft technologies, with a mission to revolutionise modern businesses. To achieve this we employ the best, most dedicated talent to deliver outstanding technology solutions to both our local and global clients.

Be part of our Hitachi family

We place value on collaboration, open communication, and transparency. We emphasise the importance of team spirit, cohesion, and appreciation - And through our talented people, innovative culture, and technical and business expertise, we deliver game changing outcomes every day. Our learning culture and flat hierarchy are our recipes for success. But don't take our word for it - Have a look at what our employees are saying: Hitachi Solutions: Recruiting the best talent and offering outstanding career opportunities (hitachi-solutions.co.uk)

What to expect, your benefits

Hitachi Solutions offers competitive compensation packages (incl. bonuses), pension and benefits plans. Work/Life balance is an essential part of our culture, and all our employees are home workers, although you will be expected to come into our or customer's offices regularly. We operate a comprehensive career development programme that includes mentoring and training plans to ensure that you will continue to grow and develop your career at Hitachi.

Job Description

Role

We are growing our multidisciplinary User Centred Design consulting team and looking for a Digital Innovation Lead to join us on our exciting journey and be part of the Hitachi Solutions family. This role will be responsible for enabling the best-in-class digital transformation for our clients in both public and private sectors.

Key responsibilities

• Strategic selling : work closely with sales team, Microsoft, & clients to support strategic customer engagements, particularly at design-thinking stage.
• Engaging in senior client conversations shaping business value propositions which resonate resulting in new logo wins or new cloud-solutions adoption by clients.
• Work with Digital Innovation Leads in France & Germany collaboratively, to qualify and support delivery of digital innovation, design thinking and rapid prototyping engagements from pre-sales to delivery and ensure regional consistency
• Deliver strategic customer engagements through use of design sprints, business value assessment and Microsoft Catalyst methodologies
• Represent Hitachi Solutions at local Hitachi Solutions UK events such as industry events, Microsoft events
• Contribute local thought leadership around digital innovation, design thinking across both Dynamics 365 and Cloud Solutions (Data & AI, Power Platform, Azure) emerging technologies (AI, IoT) to drive awareness of our broader capabilities
• Contribute through their personal network, potential lead-gen and business development
• Supports the scaling of our Digital Innovation practice in the UK and support the building of our methodology and the dissemination of Microsoft Catalyst and the wider design thinking methods to sales & consulting teams, with support from the regional GTM Director.
• Work in close collaboration with the head of user-centred design and the design thinking studio team and development teams across Power Platform, Data & Analytics and Azure practices to scale-up the end-to-end process for UX design and prototyping with technical MVP delivery with production scale in mind
• Support the sourcing and creation of innovation content in close collaboration with the European IP & methodology team

Qualifications

As an experienced Digital Innovation Lead, you have...

• Experience in management a team
• Several years of experience in change management from strategic to operational aspects in the context of digital transformation
• In-depth knowledge of current industry trends, requirements for digitalisation topics and related business processes
• Good understanding of the Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Azure portfolio
• Knowledge of AJ & Smart design sprint methodology and Microsoft Catalyst is a plus
• Very high communication skills, persuasiveness and assertiveness
• Personal initiative, sense of responsibility, a high degree of social competence and an inspiring and cooperative leadership style

Diversity and Inclusion at Hitachi Solutions

Diversity is the wellspring of our innovation, and we believe that creativity is fuelled by inclusivity. Our collective success is achieved by fostering and respecting our employees' and customer's individualities coming together as One Team. Hitachi strives to create an environment not only where genders, races, cultures, sexual orientations, and identities can work together, but where the beliefs and views of those participating feel equally represented. You can read more about Hitachi's mission and values here: hitachi-solutions.co.uk

Additional Information

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