Project Manager
Posted 23 Aug 2026
Advertised as “Project Manager_J”
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- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
Compensation
No salary listed for this role.
Role speciality
Change ManagementProject ManagementRisk ManagementSupply Chain Logistics
Preferred qualifications
CertificationsProject Management Professional
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