Project Manager for Regional Procurement

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is one of the world’s leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG is a global network with 1,100 offices in over 40 countries. The Group has 140,000 employees and about 300 entities, offering services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, client finance, asset management, and leasing. The Group’s operating companies include MUFG Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (Japan’ leading trust bank), and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings Co., Ltd., one of Japan’s largest securities firms.

Project Manager

Systems Office for Asia Division (ASO) - Enterprise Technology Procurement
- ETP

MUFG Bank, Ltd

Job Overview: We are looking for an organized, detail-oriented individual to join our team as Project Manager for Regional Procurement System Implementation project. The role is to project -manage the procurement, setting up, testing, rolling out and implementation if the system, shaping and adding to a roadmap which was designed by a consultancy team who analysed the needs of the organization.

Objectives of the position: The objective of the procurement systems project manager is to deliver an effective sourcing suite for the entire MUFG regional organization, making it accessible and user-friendly. The expected output includes the solution itself, as well as training packages and a replicable rollout methodology.

Job Responsibilities:

- Responsible for overall coordination, status reporting and project execution
- Complete and document compliant procurement of the relevant sourcing suite and partner integrator
- Define a replicable blueprint methodology for system rollout.
- Define change management strategy, provide system guidelines and training package.
- Work with selected integrator during design phase to ensure the solution set up meets MUFG’s needs.
- Assemble and leads the project team by directing and monitoring work efforts on a daily basis, identifying resource needs, performing quality review; and escalating functional, quality, timeline issues appropriately
- Creates the project budget and ensures the project adheres to the budget as closely as possible
- Oversees consistent testing, evaluation, and troubleshooting of all products in all stages of completion
- Tracks key project milestones and adjusts project plan and/or resources to meet the needs of users / internal customers
- Define and secure handover of system support and maintenance within Procurement organisation

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Business with ideally a specialization in project management, or a combination of relevant education and professional experience
- Project Management certification or successful completion of a recognized project management curriculum is required
- At least 10 years IT work experience, with at least 7 years in complex organisation, of which 2+ in systems project management including planning, risk management and cost control.
- Experience with implementation of SaaS Procurement Software
- Must possess knowledge and expertise in the use of project management methodologies and tools, resource management practices and change management techniques
- Experience in working with many stakeholders from different teams (business users, infrastructure, risk management, etc.)
- Good leadership, decision-making, and organization skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to quickly pick up and undertake necessary steps to fulfil internal procedures/processes in accordance with compliance and governance framework
- Experience in Financial and Banking industry preferred

**Job Type**: Contract
Contract length: 12 months

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- IT: 10 years (preferred)
- complex organisation: 7 years (preferred)
- project management, Cost Control: 2 years (preferred)
- planning, risk management: 2 years (preferred)