About This Role
Planning the IT strategy by working backwards from business growth is the core of this role, which involves making critical decisions about IT investments and priorities. This position is for a responsible leader who can connect on-site facts to management decisions.
Responsibilities
- Create materials to prioritize IT projects by organizing costs, effects, person-hours, and risks using the same criteria, in collaboration with management, business managers, finance, the IT department team, and key vendors
- Define the division of responsibilities with management, business managers, finance, the IT department team, and key vendors, and present a medium-term policy from both business continuity and growth perspectives
- Use "IT strategy goal achievement rate" and "management issue decision lead time" to explain to management and business, and decide on continued investment and risk acceptance
- Select the company's own capabilities and outsourced areas for decision-making support, organizing IT projects, costs, person-hours, risks, and effects
- Quantitatively and qualitatively assess operational risks and escalate them to management for decision
- Establish common principles for management, business managers, finance, the IT department team, and key vendors to follow, and a gateway for exceptional approvals
- Identify delays in plans and insufficient effects from the project portfolio, budget vs. actuals, risk register, and roadmap, and reallocate resources
- Separate short-term recovery and medium-term investment using the project portfolio, budget vs. actuals, risk register, and roadmap as decision materials
- Approve important exceptions with a time limit and review the possibility of permanent implementation
Requirements
- Experience in an IT department or internal IT domain, having been responsible for policy decisions as a manager or equivalent position
- Experience in formulating and managing IT budgets, and selecting and overseeing external contractors
- Experience in designing and operating organizational or team goals, roles, and evaluation metrics
- Experience explaining significant risks, investment effects, and remaining issues to management
- Ability to commute to the Tokyo office and connect on-site facts to management decisions
Nice to have:
- Knowledge or oversight experience in IT planning, budget management, or project portfolio management
- Experience making decisions using materials equivalent to a project portfolio, budget vs. actuals, risk register, and roadmap
- Experience reviewing medium-term roadmaps, organizational plans, and vendor portfolios
Benefits