Senior External Communications Manager - Transformers in Birmingham

Hitachi Energy seeks a Senior External Communications Manager to join our global communications team at BU Transformers. This role shapes the voice and visibility of a global business at the heart of the energy transition, positioning the company and its leadership as trusted, forward‑looking partners.

Responsibilities:

• Define and elevate the global voice in a rapidly evolving energy landscape.
• Lead the external communications strategy, strengthen market visibility, and support growth priorities across regions and channels.
• Elevate executive and leadership visibility through high‑impact content for senior leadership, including keynote messaging, videos, social media (LinkedIn), press materials, and media interviews.
• Translate complex technical and strategic subjects—energy transition, electrification, grid expansion, sustainability, transformer technologies—into clear, engaging, differentiated stories for external audiences.
• Partner with Business Unit leaders, Global Product Group teams, and regional communications to produce feature stories, press releases, and media content, ensuring message consistency and business unit validation across markets.
• Support key business initiatives, flagship moments, and strategic milestones (factory inaugurations, major investments, key events) with coordinated external communications.
• Act as a trusted partner in stakeholder storytelling, building trust and reinforcing long‑term partnerships through customer‑facing narratives.
• Lead crisis and issue communications, anticipate, prepare for, and manage reputational risks and crisis situations, coordinating rapid response with the crisis team, regional communications, and business stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in external communications, corporate communications, or public relations, ideally with both agency and in‑house experience in global, matrixed organisations.
• Proven expertise in media and campaign activation, with a track record of impactful media relations strategies and integrated campaigns.
• Exceptional writing and storytelling skills, able to craft clear, compelling, audience‑centric content across formats and stakeholders.
• Strategic advisor to senior leaders, comfortable coaching executives and shaping their external presence and thought‑leadership positioning.
• Highly organised, execution‑driven, able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines while maintaining quality and consistency.
• Experience in crisis communications, handling sensitive issues and delivering clear, confident communication under pressure.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills, effective across functions, geographies, and cultures.
• Comfortable with technical and complex topics, quickly grasping industrial, technological, and sustainability concepts for external narratives.
• Passion for the energy transition and sustainability, motivated to shape the narrative around electrification, decarbonization, and future energy infrastructure.

Benefits:

• Competitive salaries and flexible working hours.
• Professional development opportunities and supportive work environment encouraging growth and innovation.
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and career development programmes.
• Benefits vary by location and will be communicated during the interview process.

Equal Opportunity:

Qualified individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation if they are unable or limited in their ability to use or access the Hitachi Energy career site as a result of their disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by completing a general inquiry form on our website, including your contact information and specific details about your required accommodation to support you during the job application process.