Capgemini Japan Careers

Senior Project Manager for Medical Device 

Company Profile 

Capgemini Engineering combines, under one brand, a unique set of strengths from across the Capgemini Group: world-leading engineering and R&D and digital manufacturing expertise. With broad industry knowledge and cutting-edge technologies in digital and software, Capgemini Engineering supports the convergence of the physical and digital worlds. Combined with the capabilities of the rest of the Group, it helps clients to accelerate their journey towards Intelligent Industry. Capgemini Engineering has more than 60,000 engineer and scientist team members in over 30 countries across sectors including aeronautics, automotive, railways, communications, energy, life sciences, semiconductors, software & internet, space & defense, and consumer products. 

Capgemini Engineering is an integral part of the Capgemini Group, a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided every day by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of 360,000 team members in nearly 50 countries. With its strong 50-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering, and platforms. The Group reported in 2022 global revenues of €22 billion. 

Location 

Tokyo  

The role 

As part of the Software Engineering Practice and member of the engagement management community, you will be managing one or a portfolio of projects related to Medical Devices business. You will bear the overall responsibility to prepare, plan, execute and manage projects for Life Science customers. 

Responsibilities 

Delivery 

• Understand our customers business objectives, the project context and the challenges the engineering team is facing 

• Manage the project delivery from planning all the way to deployment and closing. Own the project(s) governance and ensure alignment between all stakeholders involved 

• Ensure deliverables and services are produced in line with our contractual commitments toward our customer: on time, on scope, on quality and on budget. 

• Responds to escalated project issues that may impede project delivery and coordinates solutions 

• Monitor projects profitability and maintain reporting in our internal Project Management tool to ensure accurate forecast 

• Monitors and analyzes project metrics to identify weaknesses or problems and to propose operational improvements and cost savings for future projects 

• Ensure team productivity and accuracy of the delivery by ensuring right skill allocation to projects. 

• Be a key-role model in mentoring, developing our people and be an active member of our project management community 

Business growth support 

• Contribute to the creation of engineering offers and proposal for customers. Identify opportunity for growth with our existing clients 

• Work closely with our senior clients to build better relationships, manage their expectations, develop and establish new streams of work 

• Become a leader in establishing the appropriate commercial proposals alongside establishing delivery priorities and plans, managing risks and dependencies 

• Contribute to our Engineering Practices strategy by bringing market and customer insight to anticipate future area for growth   

• Work very closely / cross-functionally with R&D teams located in overseas to make sure they handle and deliver engineering services to our end users 

• Use a variety if recognised methodologies, including Agile, via a number of multi-disciplined, highly skilled teams 

• Establish methodologies to set productivity and quality targets and to assess results for all projects 

• Create functional strategies and specific objectives for the sub-function and develop budgets/policies/procedures to support the functional infrastructure 

Profile 

Mandatory  

• 5+ years of project management experience on Engineering related projects,  

• Experience working for/with a service company is preferred. 

• Strong delivery skill in overall strategic governance for projects by establishing standards, processes, and tools used for effective project delivery.  

• High adaptability and organization skills to navigate complex organizations, clients and projects (multiple stakeholders, multicultural environment, on-shore / off-shore delivery) 

• Experience working with offshore delivery teams (India, Asia and Europe) 

• Experience of embedded software related projects 

• Previous experience working in Life Science and/or Medical device industry 

• Native level of Japanese and Business level of English 

Preferred 

• Programming knowledge or experience (C++, VC++)  

• Imaging solutions knowledge (DICOM)  

• New skills for AI, ML, DL, analytics, 5G] 

• May require a project management certification