Data Center Segment Head (m/f/d)

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join Hitachi's Global Marketing & Sales (GM&S) team, a high-profile corporate initiative at the very centre of the Hitachi Group. As the Data Centre Segment Head, you will play a crucial role in guiding Hitachi's strategic positioning, solution development and orchestrating go to market activity in this sector, collaborating with colleagues across different corporate functions and business units to drive this initiative through thought leadership, expertise, strategic insight and go to market mobilization.

As we move from product-centric offerings to OT×IT integrated solutions, we will develop and expand our market offering across the Data Centre lifecycle, in line with present and future market demand, and this role will leverage your deep market knowledge and go to market expertise, working in close partnership with Hitachi’s Strategic Social Innovation Business (SSIB) who are responsible for portfolio innovation. You will support SSIB by identifying and proposing market needs and assisting them with incubating and launching new solutions and business models to this market with customer engagement and commercialization support.

You will also work closely with Hitachi business units to position Hitachi to this market with a cohesive value proposition, bringing together the Hitachi Energy (power systems, grids, storage), Hitachi’s digital group companies (digital, data, AI), and full range of business unit capabilities to help Hitachi build its reputation and become a trusted partner for AI-era, sustainable infrastructure.

You will define and lead an intelligence-driven Data Centre Segment strategy globally, shaping market position, solution portfolio and go-to-market to capture outsized growth in hyperscale, colocation, enterprise, and edge.

Your Responsibilities

• Own the global Data Centre segment strategy, including vision, value proposition and 3-year growth plan aligned to AI-dense and edge-to-cloud market dynamics.
• Map Hitachi’s current position vs. priority competitors; identify differentiation rooted in energy resilience, high-density cooling readiness, digital operations (AIOps), and lifecycle services.
• Provide external thought leadership (analyst briefings, conferences, executive councils) and voice of customer to position Hitachi as a partner of choice for sustainable, AI-ready data centres.
• Own and evolve the Hitachi for Data Centre Market positioning.
• Lead market segmentation (hyperscalers, colocation, enterprise, telco/edge, industrial) and define region-by-region plays (power-constrained metros, new build clusters, edge corridors).
• Help Hitachi establish key executive relationships with utilities, developers, real estate investment trusts (REITs), engineering, procurement, and construction partnerships (EPCs), OEMs, chipmakers, and cloud providers to shape joint opportunities and partnerships.
• Establish customer advisory boards to validate solution roadmaps.
• Support cross-Hitachi solution development, providing market intelligence and customer validation, assisting SSIB with insight, incubation and PoC projects, proposing commercialization models for successful incubations that integrate:
• Energy & Power: grid interconnects, microgrids, battery storage, renewables, and power quality systems.
• Thermal & Mechanical: liquid-cooling–ready plants (direct-to-chip/immersion interfaces), heat recovery and WUE-optimized designs.
• Digital & AI: AIOps/DCIM, digital twins, predictive maintenance, energy optimization, and carbon reporting.
• Edge & Modular: factory-built modules, rapid-deployment pods, and distributed site orchestration.
• Prioritize proprietary digital services and as-a-service commercial models (Energy-as-a-Service, Cooling-as-a-Service, Availability SLAs).
• Build the global GTM plan (offer, partners, marketing), including segment-specific plays for retrofits vs. greenfield.
• Equip regional and cross-business unit growth teams with playbooks, competitive battlecards, and reference architectures; drive pipeline governance and win-room rituals.
• Create pursuit frameworks for campus-scale programs and multi-region frameworks with hyperscalers and Tier-1 colocators.
• Help Hitachi create a partner ecosystem spanning cooling technology, power systems, construction/modular, software & observability, and service partners.
• Facilitate co-innovation roadmaps with customers and partners.
• Build a matrixed, high-performing virtual team across regions and business units; coach for segment excellence.
• Champion safety and integrity as core values; model inclusivity and cross-cultural collaboration.

Your Background

• Data Centre domain mastery across design, build, power, cooling, operations, and services, with a track record of influencing C-suite decisions.
• Demonstrated experience crafting segment strategies and scaling integrated OT×IT solution portfolios.
• Working knowledge of AI-dense infrastructure (GPU clusters, high-density racks), liquid-cooling ecosystems, hybrid/on-site energy, and AIOps/DCIM operations.
• Strong commercial acumen: multi-stakeholder complex deal shaping, partner-led sales, and outcome-based contracting.
• Excellent executive communication; proven ability to influence across cultures and time zones.
• English fluency; Japanese proficiency is a plus.

Since its founding in 1910, Hitachi has supported the development of society and the improvement of people's lives. Throughout the world, Hitachi Group employees exemplify outstanding teamwork that transcends the boundaries of geographical regions and business fields. Together, we share the Hitachi group's identity and put it into practice worldwide.

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, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

If you’re motivated by delivering first class services, thrive in a fast paced and supportive environment and want to help Hitachi drive social innovation, we’d love to hear from you.