Senior Business Consultant - Price revenue Management

Report to: US/UK

A global ERP company is looking for an experienced business consultant, based in Tokyo, with strong project management skills, with prior experience in pricing and revenue management for a passenger travel operator.

Qualifications:

The following are mandatory qualifications for this role:

• Experience of implementing PRM solutions in the passenger rail and/or express coach industry highly preferable

• 10+ years experience in successfully managing large complex IT software application based projects, to meet tight deadlines. PRINCE2 or PMP certified preferable

• Degree qualified (Masters preferred) in subject relevant to this role

• Excellent communications skills (both verbal and written)

• Proven experience in managing project risks

• Native Japanese language skills. Fluent in English (working language)

• Ability to travel within the Europe, the US and Asia

• Previous experience working in a small to medium sized company

• Previous experience working in consultancy/vendor organization

• Previous experience implementing mathematical and/or data intensive applications

Major Responsibilities:

• Manages services engagements including interactions with client project team and client executives.

• Lead project team to ensure smooth and efficient implementation and integration between technical and functional system requirements.

• Works as functional lead between Project Team outside Japan and key customer senior executives and business users.

• Works with all levels of associates in developing functional specifications, analysis of user needs and testing deliverables.

• Participates in business process analysis or design/construction phase of the project that leads to writing functional specifications.

• Develops or guides team in the development of functional specifications for modifications, interfaces, reports and screens that meet the customers business objectives and are of sound design.

• Understands how solutions can be configured to better facilitate business processes.

• Resolves all project risks & issues (e.g. organization, budget, timeline, scope changes, software functionality and technology).

• Provides regular project communication and status reporting.

• Manages project quality to ensure customer satisfaction.

• Ensures that projects deliver the value/ROI sold with the engagement.

• Builds collaborative relationship that increases customer's perception of the value that the solution brings to their business and expands future business opportunities.

• Collaborates with appropriate internal resources on customer's business, organization and culture to strengthen their credibility as trusted advisors.

• Helps validate and produce appropriate baseline project plans and project documents.

• Assists in generating Statement of Work and customer proposal documents.

• Works with appropriate parties to plan project resource requirements.

• Assesses project performance and communicates lessons learned to increase institutional knowledge.