Japanese Speaking IT Consultant

A Japanese IT company in Belgium is currently recruiting for an IT Consultant / Project Manager. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the planning, execution, and delivery of IT projects within scope, budget, and timeline constraints. The ideal candidate should have strong IT project management skills as well as excellent communication abilities. Business level fluency in Japanese is essential.

• TYPE:
  Permanent, full-time
• WORKING HOURS:
  
  9:00-17:00 Monday to Friday
• SALARY: €60-65k, depending on experience
• START: ASAP
• LOCATION:
  
  Brussels, Belgium (Hybrid working available)
• VISA:
  The company can provide visa support for the right candidate

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of IT projects within scope, budget, and timeline constraints
• Define project objectives, scope, deliverables, timelines, and budget in collaboration with stakeholders
• Allocate project resources and monitor resource utilization
• Identify, assess, and manage project risks and issues
• Oversee project execution and ensure that project tasks are completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards
• Manage relationships with project stakeholders and communicate project status, progress, and issues to stakeholders
• Ensure project deliverables are completed, accepted, and signed off by stakeholders
• Conduct post-project reviews to identify lessons learned and best practices and apply them to future projects
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, and budgets, and communicate updates and changes
• Support pre-sales coordination where required by Customer Success (Sales/Presales)
• Visualize coordination activities, including expectations, steps and milestones, planned schedule and actual progress
• Establish cadence and report visualization to lead/opportunity stakeholders
• Support Customer Success in visualizing elements for project proposals, including project objectives, scope, deliverables, timelines, and budgets as needed
• Resolve issues and conflicts that arise during project execution
• Ensure to follow clear Change Management flow to steer and control the required change
• Ensure a smooth handover to Operations/Maintenance responsible party or handover to Customer
• Perform PMO role when required

• Business level fluency in English and Japanese (verbal and written)
• More than 3 years of IT Consultant or Project Manager experience
• Strong ability in information research and documentation/archiving
• Good people skills – able to express and support technical issues and requirements to non-technical people
• Excellent communication skills
• Willingness to work over-time and/or travel to outside location when necessary
• Understanding of large Japanese corporate environment and culture is a plus

All applicants for the Assurance Project Manager must have the right to work in the country as the Company is not able to offer visa support. We regret that we cannot accept applications from working holiday visa, graduate or student visa holders.

Centre People Appointments B.V., a Dutch private employment agency also registered in the Brussels-Capital Region under number and in the Walloon Region under number W.RS.2260.