What You’ll Do

• The Primary responsibility of the position is delivery and management oversight for all projects within the Japanese Region. Additionally, you will be expected to execute key delivery management activities on the project
• Operate in a consultative role working within the account leadership team to understand opportunities and develop a trusted relationship with the clients’ leadership teams
• Experienced technology partner who can suggest innovative solutions to business/ process problems that leverage technology to provide differentiation, efficiency improvements, and better user experiences
• Participate in the full cycle of pre-sales activities, drive time pressured preparation of customer proposals (including various models, such as fixed capacity, time and materials, fixed price), define the implementation and design for the solution, present the proposed solution architecture to the customer and the statements of work from delivery perspective
• Hands-on delivery management experience covering the full project initiation and life cycle: lead management, qualification for the bid/ financing, drive solutioning and staffing, client management, delivery, and execution governance. Accountable for overall delivery including financial, sourcing, development, and business perspectives
• Run multiple delivery streams and clients, to ensure governance at top management level and conduct governance project meetings and identify successful and unsuccessful project factors and gaps
• Lead implementation of the solutions from establishing project requirements and goals to solution "go-live"
• Manage customer expectations and relationship. Manage senior level client relationships, looking for opportunities to up/ cross-sell products and services through relationship management
• Work closely with multi-disciplined teams of product owners, architects, engineers, and quality assurance to drive estimates, delivery plans and retrospectives. Identify and manage engagement risks and flag major issues early
• Hands-on management of delivery stream along with management & growth of a team of Technology Delivery Managers - providing coaching, mentoring and development support to rive up delivery capability across the department

What You Have

• Experience in building delivery teams and solutions. Proven experience in driving scalable enterprise initiatives
• Proven experience in driving large-scale transformational initiatives, ideally initiatives in large enterprises impacting both organizational and technological components of an organization
• Significant agile practitioner experience, able to define and implement agile processes in complex customer and stakeholder environments and significant experience of delivering agile projects at scale
• Experience with presales, contracting & management under multiple commercial models including T&M, FP and managed output / outcome
• Experience in building and leading geographically distributed delivery teams, including experience in working with customer’s distributed team and defining right target operating model
• Excellent communication, presentation, and planning skills are necessary, experience with working with nearshore teams preferable
• Expected to have exceptional organization, leadership, and stakeholder management skills
• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree, MBA or equivalent business experience preferred
• Native or fully fluent Japanese communication and negotiation skills
• Strong Business level English communication and negotiation skills

WHY EPAM

• By choosing EPAM, you're getting a job at one of the most loved workplaces according to Newsweek 2021 & 2022
• Employee ideas are the main driver of our business. We have a very supportive environment where your voice matters
• You will be challenged while working side-by-side with the best talent globally. We work with top-notch technologies, constantly seeking new industry trends and best practices
• We offer a transparent career path and an individual roadmap to engineer your future & accelerate your journey
• At EPAM, you can find vast opportunities for self-development: online courses and libraries, mentoring programs, partial grants of certification, and experience exchange with colleagues around the world. You will learn, contribute, and grow with us

Life at EPAM

• EPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. EPAM has been named the top IT Services company on Fortune’s ‘100 Fastest-Growing Companies’ list (2019-2021). Since EPAM Japan was incorporated in 2018, we have constantly expanded our team and capabilities in Tokyo. We have top-notch multilingual specialists who are experts in engineering, strategy, design, consulting, and innovation services to help our customers navigate the waves of digital transformation in different industries: financial services, life sciences, automotive, real estate, retail, etc. With a proactive, creative, diverse team, we help our customers thrive in a market challenged by the pressures of digitization. We are here to make an impact in our community and beyond

How We Hire

• Not sure if you meet all the requirements? No problem. Let’s talk anyway and find out more! It takes 1 min of application to start the journey with us. Apply now!
• Apply and tell us about yourself
• Go through some standard interviews:
  • General interview with a recruiter
  • Technical interview with our technology experts
  • Manager interview or Offer interview with a hiring manager
• Get ready to join the team