Job Requirements

• Must be fluent in English and preferable able to Japanese (verbal and written).
• Must have at least  6 years of experience in Telco/IT services preferably from tier-1 Telco or IT service provider. Lesser experience will be considered as Associate Project Manager.
• Must have at least 5 years of project management experience. Lesser experience will be considered as Associate Project Manager.
• Must have at least 3 years of managing complex global projects – each project must value at least USD 1.0M excluding hardware and software. The candidate must demonstrate at least 3 complex projects. Lesser experience will be considered as Associate Project Manager.
• Must have proven experience in managing and communicating effectively at senior and executive levels – with customer, vendor, and internal stakeholders.
• Ability to engage and partner with customer, vendor, and internal staff very effectively.
• Ability to identify & solve problems independently and effectively.
• Integrating project work with Knowledge Management concepts and principles of the following:

• Develop the Project Charter ensuring sponsor buy in and sign off.
• Ensure a project plan is prepared and maintained.
• Direct and manage project execution.
• Monitor and control project work.
• Manage all change requests and integrate approved ones into the project plan.
• Finalise all activities to formerly close the project or phase.

• Delivering the agreed outcomes required from the project.
• Conduct stakeholder analysis, define and manage customer expectations both stated and unstated.
• Liaise with the business units for project inputs and regularly report to the sponsor.
• Clarify details of contract and manage contract variations.
• Manage any changes to scope using an appropriate change process.
• Seek and manage opportunities to upsell.
• Ensure acceptance of project deliverables by stakeholder/customer/sponsor.

• Achieve customer deadlines
• Use a formal process to estimate times for all activities, sequence them and then prepare the schedule.
• Control performance to meet the deliverables according to the schedule.

• Plan, allocate and manage budgets using appropriate company tools.
• Anticipate and give forewarning of any deviations from budget.
• Control the budget within the limits of the project tolerances approved by the project sponsor.
• Seek approval from the sponsor for any anticipated expenditure above the project budget.

• Establish and plan quality requirements with customer and manage project to ensure compliance.
• Employ effective corrective action techniques where required.
• Use project health checks, reviews, audits and customer satisfaction surveys as a way of objectively monitoring project performance and quality.

• Actively promote team effectiveness, morale, motivation and productivity.
• Ensure the team buys in to the goals of the project and they are willing to extend themselves to meet the objectives.
• Support competence development of team and of other staff (if applicable)
• Manage the interface between internal resources and the customer.
• Provide feedback to line managers of team member performance

• Actively manage stakeholders utilising appropriate techniques.
• Implement a project communication strategy to inform all stakeholders and provide regular reports.
• Provide market information as to future business opportunities (if applicable).
• Implements knowledge management initiatives supporting project communications.

• Implement an effective risk management process for the project ensuring the team are fully engaged.
• Mitigate, deflect or avoid risk threats whilst seeking to maximise risk opportunities.

• Generate procurement planning documentation for the project.
• Work within the procurement management processes defined for standard ordering and subcontracting.
• Manage third party suppliers as appropriate.