Project Manager_J

Location: Japan

Category: Not Specified

Employment Type: Not Specified

About us

Purpose of role

• Lead project planning, scheduling, controlling, and reporting for strategic, high impact, high risk projects delivered on time, on budget, within scope and within agreed quality standards.
• Ensure country compliance to project management strategy governance, including application of appropriate methodologies and alignment to the business strategy.
• Ensure start-ups are governed by project management methodology to achieve successful project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Set strategy governing direction and conduct of project management, including the application of appropriate methodologies.
• Build strong relationships and manage expectations of all stakeholders.
• Build strong working relationships with Executives (including Senior Management Team) to ensure business risk is managed before project issues arises.
• Provide project leadership and constructive feedback to project teams and Sector teams.
• Engage and influence business leaders to develop effective project risk management and improvement plans for critical projects.
• Lead and direct an effective risk management process and supporting tool set to identify and mitigate commercial and operational risks.
• Ensure regular review of performance and corrective action plans are implemented for critical projects.
• Ensure regular review of project performance regardless of complexity level.
• Sponsor the deployment of lessons learnt output and feedback to drive continuous improvement.
• Coach and mentor team/project members to support personal development.

Requirements

Essential

• 5+ years’ experience in Project/ Program management leadership roles
• Experience in managing large, complex projects using waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Experience in driving change and change management using change management methods
• Ability to lead and manage a cross country, multicultural team.
• Business level of Japanese and English language skills

Desirable

• 5+ years’ experience in Supply Chain Logistics
• DMAIC process improvement methodology
• Experience in handling customer engagement - Risk identification/ mitigation.
• Professional qualifications such as PMP