Project Manager

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

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 qualit