Commercial Operations Specialist

The opportunity

Are you energized by the thrill of crafting winning strategies and driving high-impact deals? Join us as a Commercial Operations Specialist and become a key player in shaping how we deliver value to our customers. In this role, you’ll collaborate across global teams, influence business decisions, and help us win complex, high-stakes opportunities. You’ll be at the heart of our commercial engine—where strategy meets execution, and every proposal is a chance to shine. If you thrive in a fast-paced, detail-driven environment and love turning ideas into action, this is your moment.

- Partner with Sales to define business strategies for customer proposals

- Lead and inspire cross-functional bid teams to create compelling, customer-focused proposals

- Coordinate inputs from legal, finance, product, and support to build cohesive bids

- Review commercial terms and manage risk throughout the bid lifecycle

- Develop pricing models that align with margin goals and governance standards

- Ensure proposals reflect our brand, value-adds, and win themes

- Present proposals to senior leadership and support internal approvals

- Support internal governance and administrative processes

- Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

Your background

- Bachelor’s degree preferred

- 2–5 years of experience in commercial operations, bids, or tender management

- Strong writing and editing skills with attention to detail

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management across global teams

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools and collaboration platforms

- Solid understanding of commercial risk and pricing strategies

Candidate must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in the United States.

We pride ourselves on offering a holistic range of competitive benefits to support your financial, physical and mental wellbeing and personal development. We want you to truly thrive with us, in work and out.

For this role, depending on grade and experience, we offer the following employee benefits (subject to the respective plan rules):

- Health Care: medical (PPO, CDHP with HSA, HMO), dental, and vision

- Financial Wellbeing: Employer-sponsored pension – 401(k) Program with generous company match and contribution, Life/AD&D Insurance, disability insurance

- Family Care: Life and Family (Legal, pet, auto, home, identity theft, etc.), special needs support, and adoption assistance

- Work-Life: Enhanced leave programs (FMLA, Military Service Leave, Maternal, Paternal, adoption, vacation, and holiday)

- Employee Engagement and Development: Employee Resource Groups (depending on location), tuition reimbursement program

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.

Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.