Roles/Responsibilities
- Lead consulting services with clients throughout all industries in Japan, delivering enterprise solutions utilizing Microsoft technologies from planning to post-implementation support.
- Engage in solution planning, proposal, MVP, and other pre-sales activities for clients.
- Manage schedule, cost, quality, and overall project management for solution implementation with teams in Japan and outside of Japan.
- Communicate with clients, adjust scope, and provide regular reports to Japan/global delivery offices and leadership.
- Projects can fall into all kinds of categories across apps, infra, data & analytics. Depending on your strengths, or your interest, there will be projects that match.
Required skills
- 5+ years of experience leading all phases of system development lifecycle: planning, design, implementation, maintenance.
- Project management experience including planning, progress tracking, resource management, risk management, quality management, scope management, estimation, and budget management.
- Ability to propose and coordinate with clients in Japanese.
- This means: fluent Japanese skills. Also: business English skills will be required.
- Knowledge of and experience with Microsoft technologies, particularly Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Azure for enterprise SI projects.
- Experience leading medium to large-scale projects.
- Please note that the company can only select those who are eligible to work in Japan at the time of application.
- Some client travel within Japan will be required.
Preferred skills
- Experience in a global environment with offshore teams, handling system development, implementation, maintenance, etc.
- Certifications such as PMP or ITIL are a plus.
Personal Attributes
- Flexible mindset: depending on the project needs, different tasks will come up.
- Ability to work independently: as the company works from home a lot, you will need to be able to work quite well by yourself.
About our client
Our client is one of the leading technology implementation and Digital Transformation (DX) companies in the world. They operate in 28 countries around the globe, and you will have a chance to work with your colleagues overseas a lot.
- Grow your career in a global organization that is growing fast in Japan
- Almost half of Fortune 500 companies are their clients; they have a stable business
- Work from home available, or come in to their office centrally located in Tokyo or Osaka
- Chance to work on super large-scale projects