Project Manager - Global Trade

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the implementation and integration of Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE software solutions at client sites in Japan. As a Project Manager, you will oversee project management, lead consultants, and support pre-sales activities, while ensuring successful project delivery and managing client expectations. You will be responsible for developing and tracking project plans, managing resources, and coordinating with stakeholders to drive project success.

This role requires strong leadership, project management, and communication skills, as well as the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and coach a local team of technology and professional service professionals.

Key Responsibilities  

In this opportunity as a Project Manager, you will:

• Project management and lead consultants in implementation and integration of Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE software solutions at client sites in Japan.
• Support the pre-sales activities from professional service side to conduct product / technology due diligence and develop the SOW
• Create/Review project scope, schedule, delivery plan; validate any requirements, identify project dependence, risk and issue.
• Proactively manage the changes of project scope and customers’ expectations.
• Drive and balance project schedules and resources through close collaboration with key project stakeholders
• Controls project deliverables, scope & expectations, and coordinates project progress with sponsors, steering committees, and senior leadership
• Develops and tracks to detailed project plans including schedules, technical and business requirements, cost estimates, resource plans, communication plans, risk mitigation plans, and issue resolution plans
• Lead functional & process requirement workshops with customers to define business, process, functional and data requirements, deliver Client trainings.
• Act as the local team lead to coach and guide the technology & professional service team on the ground
• Handle multiple projects simultaneously.

Required Qualifications 

You’re a fit for the role of Project Manager, if you have the following required qualifications: 

• Strong project management skills, has 5~10 years of experience successfully managing complex client facing projects
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Accounting & Finance or Project Management equivalent
• Proven experience in enterprise software implementations, project life cycles and software implementation methodologies
• Proven project management experience (in software solutions implementation projects involving Supply Chain Management or Logistics or Trade management or ERP systems)
• Native level Japanese language skills and good communication skills in English, both writing and speaking
• Quick learner and ability to work with minimum supervision.
• Independently coaches, mentors, and motivates project teams to influence a positive, accountable, and collaborative approach

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience working for consulting or professional services organizations specializing in supply chain management or Global trade management.
• Effectively communicates project expectations to team members and stakeholders at all levels including business representatives, partners, customers, and consultants.
• PMP or equivalent project management certification
• Fluency in any other Asian language
• Experience of working in multi-national companies
• Flexibility to travel occasionally

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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