Product Manager and Product Introduction Manager - Instrument Transformers (m/f/d) | Lodi, Italy

Product Manager and Product Introduction Manager - Instrument Transformers (m/f/d)

Join our Instrument Transformers business and play a key role in bringing innovative products from development into successful industrialization and market deployment. In this position, you will lead the introduction of new and transferred products, ensuring operational readiness across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, and service functions.

You will act as the focal point for New Product Introduction (NPI) activities, driving cross-functional alignment, managing risks, and ensuring products are launched with the highest standards of quality, cost efficiency, and delivery performance.

The Opportunity

Join our Instrument Transformers business and play a key role in bringing innovative products from development into successful industrialization and market deployment. In this position, you will lead the introduction of new and transferred products, ensuring operational readiness across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, and service functions.

You will act as the focal point for New Product Introduction (NPI) activities, driving cross-functional alignment, managing risks, and ensuring products are launched with the highest standards of quality, cost efficiency, and delivery performance.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Lead end-to-end product introduction and implementation projects from initiation through industrialization and market launch.

• Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, milestones, and success criteria together with key stakeholders.

• Develop and manage project plans, schedules, resources, budgets, and implementation roadmaps.

• Coordinate engineering, procurement, production, quality, logistics, and service teams to ensure execution readiness.

• Drive the successful transfer of new and existing products into manufacturing while ensuring compliance with quality, safety, and business requirements.

• Monitor prototype builds, test objects, pilot production, and zero-series activities to validate manufacturing readiness.

• Track production, assembly, and testing processes, identifying opportunities for optimization and continuous improvement.

• Identify project risks, define mitigation plans, and ensure transparent communication with stakeholders and management.

• Support product lifecycle management activities and contribute to the long-term competitiveness of the Instrument Transformers portfolio.

• Collaborate with global and cross-functional teams to secure alignment on priorities, timelines, and deliverables.

• Drive a culture of operational excellence, continuous improvement, and customer focus.

Your Background

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Industrial Management, or a related field.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in project management, product implementation, industrialization, or new product introduction environments.

• Experience within the power industry and high-voltage products. Familiarity with Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) products and applications is considered an advantage.

• Strong understanding of industrial product lifecycles, manufacturing processes, and product introduction methodologies.

• Experience working in international and cross-functional organizations.

• Solid knowledge of project management methodologies, including Waterfall, Agile, or hybrid approaches.

• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic and fast‑paced environment.

• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

More about us

We believegreat workthrives in an environment where people feel genuinely supported andfairly rewarded. Our benefits are designed to create real value for every individual – fueling engagement, performance, and growth. By prioritizing well‑being, we build a work place where personal and organizational success grow together.

The minimum salary for this position in the location specified is as follows:

• Starting from:52,700 € gross annual

The final offer will be based on candidate location, skills and qualifications, experience, and aligned with internal pay structures.

Our benefits offering for this rolegenerally includes:

• Incentive Plan, Lunch tickets, Health Insurance, Pension Fund, Welfare, Flexible working hours, Hybrid work model,Well-being platform, Family Care Benefits, Parking and Partnerships (gyms, sports centers, stores).

• Applicable CBA: Metalmeccanico

We are a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission-critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world’s energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD.