IT Project Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage projects or sub-projects, including maintaining project status and related documentation, coordinating project-related activities, and tracking performance.
• Perform analysis and design, including coordinating meetings with business users, defining and structuring requirements, and leading the creation and documentation of detailed solution designs.
• Develop applications, including interacting with vendors to convert designs and technical specifications into computer programs following programming standards and best practices.
• Test and document, including performing data migration, cleansing, and review of code and related documentation as required.
• Provide technical production support of applications, including monitoring the performance of production applications, providing technical assistance to users, and helping structure the technical support of applications.
• Facilitate the transition of programs from development into production, including creating deployment packages and deployment-related documentation.
• Coordinate with regional/local teams to transfer project ownership towards local support and maintenance.

Qualifications and Skills:

• University degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Excellent spoken and written Japanese, as well as fluent English.
• Excellent communication skills, experience working directly with end users, understanding of business requirements and translating them into solutions, curiosity, pragmatism, proactivity, and the ability to work independently.
• Structured, with the ability to provide regular and consistent reporting.
• Understanding of the technical environment (MS SQL, BI, etc.) and the ability to help structure technical support.
• Very good functional understanding of retail business and digital/CRM topics.
• Good design skills, including the ability to structure and formalize requirements with key users and translate them into detailed designs for vendor quotation and development.
• Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and provide thought leadership and perspective.

Preferred Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in system support/development.
• Experience working in a multi-brand and dynamic organization, interacting with various levels: local, regional, and central.
• Strong technical skills combined with exceptional business understanding in the front-office/digital space and the ability to support these business users.

Our client is one of the leading European skin care companies around the globe.