Senior Infra Project Manager

Appealing Points:

• Lead large-scale infrastructure programs with ownership of strategy, governance, and delivery success.
• Engage with executive stakeholders and global teams to drive key decisions and customer success.
• Support cloud transformation and modernization initiatives that deliver long-term business value and operational excellence.

Annual Salary: 10 million yen and above

Job Responsibilities:

Program/Portfolio Leadership:

• Lead multiple concurrent infrastructure initiatives or a large-scale program; define delivery strategy, governance model, and success metrics.
• Own executive-level communications: steerco updates, decision logs, escalations, and stakeholder alignment across Japan and global teams.
• Define and enforce program governance, delivery standards, and KPIs
• Own customer relationship at senior leadership / CXO level
• Drive financial management: budgeting, forecasting, margin protection
• Oversee vendor and partner performance
• Review and approve project plans, risk strategies, and delivery outcomes
• Escalation management and decision-making authority for critical issues

Advanced Delivery Governance:

• Establish and enforce PM controls: scope, integrated schedule, financial tracking, quality management, RAID, and change control across workstreams.
• Drive PMBOK-aligned artifacts (Charter/Plan/Business Case where needed) and ensure audit-ready documentation.
• Customer Engagement & Continuous Improvement
• Proactively identify improvement and transformation opportunities, such as:
  • Infrastructure standardization and simplification
  • Cloud adoption and optimization
  • Automation and operational efficiency
  • Security and resilience enhancements
  
  
• Support customers in moving from reactive operations to planned modernization.
• Drive discussions beyond “task execution” toward long-term value and stability.

Vendor & Commercial Management:

• Lead vendor selection and commercial negotiations; manage contracts/SOW governance, acceptance criteria, and delivery performance.
• Technical & Operational Leadership
• Orchestrate cross-functional teams (network, cloud, systems, security, service desk) and ensure operational readiness, transition planning, and post-implementation stabilization.

Job Qualifications:

• 8–12+ years of project/program management experience with significant IT infrastructure delivery scope.
• Proven track record managing enterprise-scale delivery with executive stakeholders; strong risk and crisis management.
• Strong bilingual capability: Japanese for local stakeholder management and English for global governance and offshore coordination.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications: PMP / PRINCE2 strongly preferred; ITIL and Agile delivery experience valued.
• Experience with cloud transformation, datacenter migration, network modernization, or large workplace/office infrastructure programs
• Experience in Performing assessment of infrastructure services
• Proactively adapting to the upcoming new technological market trends

Languages: Japanese N1 certified or Native and English - Conversational

Company Description:

The group is a global enterprise headquartered in India. The group operates in more than 100 countries across six continents with a mission 'To improve the quality of life of the communities we serve globally, through long-term stakeholder value creation based on Leadership with Trust'.

Sixty-six percent of the equity of Sons, the promoter holding company, is held by philanthropic trusts, thereby returning wealth to society. The name has been respected in India for 150 years for its adherence to strong values and business ethics.

The companies of the group employ the best and finest, strengthened by a culture of ethics and integrity. Today we stand strong at 702,454 employees.

. Skillset Required: Leadership, Governance, Delivery Success, Executive-level Communications, Stakeholder Alignment, KPIs, Customer Relationship Management, Budgeting, Audit Documentation, Operational Efficiency, Resilience Enhancements, SOW Management, Project Management, Program Management, Risk Management, PMP, PRINCE2, ITIL, Agile Delivery, Cloud Transformation