IT Project Manager

Responsibilities: - Negotiate, develop, and manage project objectives, scope, budget, and costs for small to medium projects to achieve a cost-effective solution for clients and systemsGo. - Create and manage project plans, identifying detailed tasks, required resources, schedule, potential risks and appropriate mitigation plans. - Assign tasks to resources, issue purchase orders for equipment and manage the ongoing workflow to achieve the project objectives. - Accurately and clearly report the ongoing project status and issues on a timely basis to client, systemsGo management and Sales. - Carefully manage change requests to ensure original project objectives continue to be met. Indicate possible solutions and project impacts, submit recommendations and obtain approval from the client. - Finalize the administrative close of the project including client sign-off, documentation, and support handover process (where applicable). - Develop advanced skills in managing infrastructure projects. Requirements: - Business level or higher English and Japanese. - Excellent communication, negotiation, influence, presentation and customer service skills. - Communicates at an appropriate level while adhering to confidentiality standards. - Maintain/update consistent and clear documentation for projects. - Communicate tasks to team members via the appropriate systems. Nice to have personality/skill: - Teamwork – lead project teams effectively. Respect opinions and contributions of team members. - Ability to gather information; explore and eliminate alternatives; request and utilise assistance from other sources when necessary; formulate plan to implement solution. - Ability to work unsupervised. Results focused. Consistently achieves target project services profit margins through effective management of resources. - Ability to multitask. Effective time and schedule management skills. - Quality Assurance – Awareness of accepted levels of quality in terms of project deliverables and internal standards.