1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?
He has a little over 30 years of experience with the most recent 15 years has been functionally in project and change management, for strategic, firm-wide, or global initiatives. In terms of the projects he has worked with, he has been involved with more of sales and marketing-oriented projects rather than technology-related projects, although he has managed a couple of those as well before. Regarding industry experience, he has been within banking and financial services industry, and the last 5-6 years, mostly in the pharmaceutical, medical devices, and life sciences. He’s currently with XXXX as a Consulting Principal, Change Manager for the Japan region, where it’s very project-oriented and his role is more on the delivery side of things; he also does support at some times, reviews of RFPs, providing input to client proposals, especially from a change management perspective, but about 90% of his time is dedicated towards client projects. He was previously doing consulting and change/project management roles before this one with XXXX.
2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?
Strongest skill would be organizational change management, including redesigns, project management for strategic initiatives; he’s also good with new product launches, new services developments, or new project developments. In summary, he’s well-versed with strategy development, organizational change, and sales-marketing initiatives.
3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements?
He has been doing change management roles for more than 15 years now and has been focused on sales-marketing initiatives for the last 5-6 years but he has done ERP rollouts, implementations, end-to-end technical projects, and such. He has always been doing consulting, has done ERP implementations, and is strong with organizational change management and leadership. Great exposure with regulated industries including pharma, life science, medical, and also finance which is highly regulated in Japan; he’s a Certified Change Management Professional, Change Management Practitioner, and PRINCE2 Practitioner.
