IT Consultant (Fluent Japanese)

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.

(Ref: YC47576 - Please include this when making any enquiries.)

Main Responsibilities:

• 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 cha
• Support pre-sales coordination where required by Customer Success (Sales/Presales)
• Visualize coordination activities, including but not limited to, 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 but not limited to project objectives, scope, deliverables, timelines, and budgeting 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

Ideal Candidate:

• Business level fluency in English and Japanese (verbal and written)
• More than 3 years of IT Consultant or Project Manager experience is required
• 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

Conditions:

TYPE: Permanent, full-time

WORKING HOURS: 9:00-17:00 from 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

For Brussels-Capital Region

Centre People Appointments B.V., a Dutch private employment agency also registered in the Brussels-Capital Region under number 20593-405-20260204 and in the Walloon Region under number W.RS.2260.

If your application is successful, you will be contacted within two business days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs.