Senior Manager, Transformation & Internal Consulting (#1560)

Role Overview:

This position places the successful candidate at the center of a leading organization's most critical enterprise transformation initiatives. You will work directly with senior executives and business leaders to identify strategic and operational improvement opportunities. As a critical bridge among senior executives, business functions, transformation, and digital/IT teams, this is a rare opportunity to develop an enterprise-wide perspective and accumulate hands-on transformation experience.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead and drive enterprise-wide business transformation initiatives across functions and regions

- Proactively identify business challenges and improvement opportunities through stakeholder interviews

- Structure complex and ambiguous issues into clear problem statements, hypotheses, and strategic options

- Define future-state business processes, operating models, governance, decision rights, roles and responsibilities

- Facilitate discussions with senior executives and business leaders to establish priorities and resolve issues

- Act as a key bridge among senior executives, business divisions, digital, and external partners

- Drive transformation execution, including governance, milestone management, dependency management, and risk management

- Establish meaningful business outcome indicators and monitor whether expected value is being realized

- Review and constructively challenge external consultant and partner deliverables for strategic coherence

- Support executive decision-making through rigorous analysis, concise documentation, and clear communication

- Transfer transformation methods, problem-solving approaches, and reusable practices into the organization

Must Have:

- Strong consulting and problem-solving capabilities, including the ability to identify, structure, and prioritize business challenges where objectives or end-state are not yet clearly defined

- A proven track record in issue structuring, hypothesis development, data-driven analysis, option evaluation, and translating recommendations into execution

- Experience in business transformation, end-to-end process redesign, operating model design, organizational change, business performance improvement, or enterprise-wide strategic initiatives

- Ability to develop clear business cases, transformation roadmaps, governance models, and executive-level recommendations

- Excellent stakeholder management and facilitation skills across multiple functions, regions, and organizational levels, including senior leadership

- Strong program or project leadership skills, with practical experience managing dependencies, risks, decisions, change adoption, and outcome realization

- Background in a strategy or management consulting firm, corporate strategy, transformation office, business excellence, internal consulting, or equivalent function

- Experience leading or driving global or regional transformation initiatives

- Native-level Japanese proficiency and working proficiency in business English

Nice to Have:

- Experience or knowledge in regulated industries

- Experience in enterprise operating model design, process excellence, organizational effectiveness, change management, or benefits realization

- Experience building internal transformation methods, playbooks, governance, or capability development programs

- Full social insurance coverage (health, welfare pension, employment, workers' compensation)

- Corporate pension / defined contribution pension plan

- Various employee welfare programs and group insurance

- Flextime system

- Full two-day weekend (Sat/Sun), public holidays, year-end/New Year holiday

- Paid annual leave, special leave programs