IT Project Manager - Tokyo

*Candidate must be in Tokyo or nearby areas in Tokyo*

Key Job Responsibilities:

Project Management

• Lead and manage IT projects from initiation to delivery, ensuring alignment between business and technology teams.

• Oversee planning, execution, resource allocation, timeline management, and risk mitigation to drive successful project completion.

• Ensure clear communication between business and technical stakeholders regarding goals, deliverables, and priorities.

• Provide regular status updates and proactively address risks and issues.

Requirements Management & Business Analysis

• Drive requirement-gathering sessions, ensuring a clear understanding of business needs and priorities.

• Collaborate with business teams in Japan to document and translate requirements into actionable technical specifications.

• Work closely with data engineering teams to ensure alignment of technical solutions with business objectives.

• Conduct workshops and stakeholder discussions to refine requirements and facilitate mutual understanding.

Technical & Analytical Responsibilities

• Posses a strong understanding of data engineering concepts, including databases, ETL processes, and data warehousing tools.

• Support technical teams in integrating and managing structured and unstructured datasets, including PDFs and raw text.

• Leverage Databricks for data engineering, analytics, and machine learning workflows.

• Ensure compliance with Japan’s pharmaceutical data regulations and best practices for data governance.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Stakeholder & Delivery Management

• Act as the key liaison between technical and business teams, ensuring alignment on goals and deliverables.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders in Japan, understanding their requirements and business objectives.

• Work effectively within the Japanese business culture, facilitating collaboration between Japan-based and global teams in India and the US.

• Drive Agile project execution, including sprint planning, backlog grooming and retrospectives.

• Ensure smooth coordination with internal delivery teams, proactively resolving project bottlenecks.

Process Improvement & Governance

• Identify and implement scalable process improvements to enhance the efficiency and future readiness of client ecosystems.

• Support Agile project execution by ensuring best practices in project planning, execution, and retrospectives.

• Contribute to the adoption of data cataloging, data quality management, and governance frameworks.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 3+ years in IT Project Management or Senior BA/PM roles, with 8+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical or life sciences industry (preferred).

• Project Management: Expertise in planning, execution, status reporting and risk management. Experience in Agile, Waterfall or Hybrid project methodologies.

• Technical Knowledge: Strong understanding of data engineering technologies, including ETL, data warehousing and system integrations. Hands-on experience with Informatica IDMC and Databricks is a plus.

• Pharma Data Expertise: Experience handling datasets like IQVIA, Veeva CRM, patient claims or sales data.

• Stakeholder & Cultural Management: Ability to work effectively with Japanese business stakeholders and global teams in India and the US.

• Language Skills: Proficiency in both Japanese and English is a must.

• Soft Skills: Strong analytical, problem-solving, interpersonal, and leadership skills, with the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.

Desirable Skills

• Certifications: Scrum Master, PMP, or similar project management certifications.

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