Senior Director

Job description

Join our team and start a new adventure in an international and dynamic environment where you will be able to fulfil your career expectations in a fast-growing organization. As a Senior Director, you will play a pivotal role in bridging business and IT, driving strategic initiatives, and ensuring the successful delivery of technology solutions aligned with business objectives.

Your Missions:

• Build strong relationships with senior business leaders as a strategic partner, serving as a trusted IT advisor to support the success of assigned business units.
• Accurately understand business challenges and lead issue resolution by collaborating with IT development and maintenance teams.
• Escalate system incidents to the global team as required, lead end‑to‑end resolution, and ensure timely, appropriate communication to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Act as a bridge between Business and IT (Japan and Global), driving the implementation of optimal solutions that align with business needs.
• Coordinate and negotiate system changes and enhancements with regional and global IT teams to ensure smooth delivery.
• Lead end-to-end IT project management for internal and external projects—from requirements definition to go-live—to ensure successful execution.
• Develop investment plans and cost models for the assigned business areas, translate them into actionable plans, and drive IT strategies that contribute to business growth.
• Oversee the quality management of IT services (SLA) within the assigned scope, ensuring stable operations and continuous improvements.
• Conduct regular meetings with customers to provide IT-related updates, understand their needs, and act as the primary IT contact during incidents by coordinating with relevant stakeholders.
• Propose improvements in data utilization and digitalization to enhance business productivity and promote related initiatives.

Your Profile:

• Experience in stakeholder management, including coordination with customers and senior executives.
• Experience leading requirement discussions and decision-making sessions with director/executive-level stakeholders.
• Experience in problem solving based on logical thinking, with hands-on experience in identifying issues, conducting root cause analysis, and planning through execution of improvement actions.
• Experience in implementing SCM systems such as WMS/TMS or SAP, including involvement from understanding logistics operations through requirements definition, testing, and deployment.
• Experience leading or consulting on upstream system phases, including conducting onsite interviews, analyzing business processes, and driving requirements definition.
• Project management experience based on PMBOK, including ownership of schedule, risk, and budget management to successfully deliver projects.
• Fluent in English and Japanese.
• You demonstrate effective global communication skills, capable of coordinating and negotiating with overseas teams through meetings and email.
• You demonstrate strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• You demonstrate excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Experience with generative AI tools is a plus.

What we offer:

• An international community bringing together 110+ different nationalities.
• An environment where trust has a central place.
• 70% of our key leaders started their careers at the first level of responsibility.
• A robust training system with our internal Academy and 250+ available modules.
• A vibrant workplace that frequently gathers for internal events (afterworks, team buildings, etc.).
• At Amaris, sustainability is part of everything we do. You’ll have the opportunity to turn your ideas into action and make a tangible impact. Every day, our teams bring our ESG commitments to life, from reducing our footprint to driving positive change within our communities. Through our WeCare Together program, you’ll be empowered to design and lead projects that create real social or environmental impact, with the company’s full support.

Amaris Consulting is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace. We are committed to promoting diversity within the workforce and creating an inclusive working environment. For this purpose, we welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, beliefs, age, marital status, disability, or other characteristics

Who are we?

Amaris Consulting is an independent technology consulting firm providing guidance and solutions to businesses. With more than 1000 clients across the globe, we have been rolling out solutions in major projects for over a decade – this is made possible by an international team of 7,600 people spread across 5 continents and more than 60 countries. Our solutions focus on four different Business Lines: Information System & Digital, Telecom, Life Sciences and Engineering. We’re focused on building and nurturing a top talent community where all our team members can achieve their full potential. Amaris is your steppingstone to cross rivers of change, meet challenges and achieve all your projects with success.

At Amaris, we strive to provide our candidates with the best possible recruitment experience. We like to get to know our candidates, challenge them, and be able to give them proper feedback as quickly as possible. Here's what our recruitment process looks like:   

Brief Call: Our process typically begins with a brief virtual/phone conversation to get to know you! The objective? Learn about you, understand your motivations, and make sure we have the right job for you! 

Interviews (the average number of interviews is 3 - the number may vary depending on the level of seniority required for the position). During the interviews, you will meet people from our team: your line manager of course, but also other people related to your future role. We will talk in depth about you, your experience, and skills, but also about the position and what will be expected of you. Of course, you will also get to know Amaris: our culture, our roots, our teams, and your career opportunities!

Case study: Depending on the position, we may ask you to take a test. This could be a role play, a technical assessment, a problem-solving scenario, etc.   

As you know, every person is different and so is every role in a company.  That is why we have to adapt accordingly, and the process may differ slightly at times. However, please know that we always put ourselves in the candidate's shoes to ensure they have the best possible experience. 
We look forward to meeting you!