Assistant Manager, Advisory

The position is responsible for providing superior client services on FM (Facility Management) and PM (Project Management) consultation, and the support for the account team under the transition stage or the lack of key resources.

Also, she/he needs to collaborate with the Sales team to address client issues by organizing work content, compiling proposal materials including costs and schedules, and presenting these proposals to clients.

• Support the Work Dynamics sales team to find new business opportunities.
• Support transition activities moving smoothly for the successful DAY-1 of operations.
• Collaborate with onsite teams and other business line to expand our opportunities in existing accounts.

• Communicate well internally/externally
• Build a strong relationship with Clients, Work Dynamics sales team (FM and PM) and onsite local teams
• Collaborate with local/regional Legal / Finance / HR / other functional teams to achieve our goals without any risks or issues

• Provide the delivery, capital planning and management of a small projects program within Japan. Occasionally, we will be required to follow up on large scale project oversight with a third-party PM vendor.
• Provide delivery, due diligence or various benchmarking study of consulting projects related to facilities management.
• Cultivate and maintain a positive working relationship with all client representatives and service providers operating on the project
• Lead vendor partners on all assigned projects.
• Proactively identifies, reports, and solutions project and program risks
• Develop and maintain relationships with client and key vendor partners

• Manage project finances for capital projects within targeted percentage of budget
• Identify cost savings on all projects. Meet firms’ goals for cost avoidance / savings
• Submit timely cost and schedule change requests

• Provide the delivery and management of transition before of operational launch within the required timeline and budget.
• Provide the client/team management as temporary backfill until new manager will be assigned.

• Propose and implement various solutions, recommendations and best practices for Work Dynamics Account Management to be a better organization

• Proactively consider new operational approaches (e.g. IoT and AI) to build out a future business model
• Provide administrative support within the Advisory team and Work Dynamics Account and collaborate with the Sales team to create sales materials such as presentations.

• 3 years plus experience in project management and 3 years plus experience in facilities management, critical engineering and/or building services.

• Be able to communicate fluently in English and Japanese
• Confident, clear and comfortable in communicating with good presentation skills
• Self-motivated; confident & energetic
• Ability to work across multiple, matrix reporting environments and prioritize activities accordingly
• Ability to effectively deal with stressful situations
• Flexible – able to adapt to rapidly changing situations
• Strongly goal-oriented – able to focus on meeting performance targets.

[Place of Work]

Location: Within Tokyo’s 23 wards

[Working Hours and Days Off]

Working hours are based on the client’s timetable

Generally based on working from the office

Days off: Two days off per week (Saturday and Sunday), public holidays, and the year-end and New Year period

【Salary】

Overtime pay: Available. A fixed overtime allowance is included in the basic annual salary (equivalent to 30 hours per month) *For non-managerial positions

Bonuses: Available (performance-related bonuses)

Probationary period: Yes

【Number of Vacancies】 1

【Selection Process】

1. Application screening

2. Interviews (several rounds planned)

3. Final interview

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