Top Project Management Jobs in Japan

Leads high-technology construction projects by managing cost, schedule, budget, contractors, vendors, consultants, milestones, payments, estimates, change orders, claims, and project risks. Coordinates client meetings, engineering decisions, scheduling reviews, capital expenditures, equipment delivery, commissioning, and final handover. Manages project revenue, team resources, and priorities while ensuring complete closeout documentation and warranties.

Manage project objectives, scope, budget, and resources. Communicate project status, handle change requests, and ensure quality deliverables. Lead teams and maintain high customer service standards.

Leads quality assurance and quality control across large-scale construction, infrastructure, industrial, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, or data center projects. Develops quality strategies, project quality plans, QMS processes, inspection and testing programs, audits, compliance assessments, and KPI reporting. Oversees NCRs, corrective actions, risk mitigation, client audits, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement while managing and developing QA/QC teams.

Manage day-to-day operations for Inventor Garage, supporting startups and inventors, promoting facility and mobility-asset utilization, and running recurring community programs. Responsibilities include stakeholder engagement, external representation, event logistics, vendor coordination, budget tracking, and resolving operational issues. The role requires regular on-site work in Susono, Shizuoka, business-level Japanese and English, and weekend shift work.

Leads multidisciplinary real estate projects from planning and design through construction, occupancy, and closeout. Manages budgets, schedules, procurement, quality, risks, documentation, change orders, and client communications. Prepares scopes, estimates, work plans, bids, reports, and mitigation plans while coordinating third-party project delivery resources. The role requires interpreting contracts, leases, work letters, surveys, drawings, and construction documents, with responsibility for tracking project performance and meeting approved objectives.

Manage end-to-end delivery of enterprise security technology projects, including CCTV modernization, centralized monitoring, access card replacement, system migrations, testing, commissioning, and handover. Coordinate clients, stakeholders, vendors, consultants, and operational teams while managing schedules, budgets, risks, quality, compliance, procurement, and governance requirements across multiple locations.

Manage large-scale building, infrastructure, transportation, aviation, and development projects through planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, handover, and close-out. Responsibilities include contract administration, multidisciplinary coordination, project controls, stakeholder management, risk and issue resolution, contractor submission reviews, design integration, and monitoring cost, quality, safety, and schedule performance.

Lead large-scale, complex construction and development projects across Japan, including data centers, logistics facilities, manufacturing plants, offices, and commercial assets. Manage projects from feasibility through handover, overseeing budgets, schedules, quality, safety, procurement, risks, contracts, and stakeholders. Serve as the primary client interface, mentor project managers, lead mission-critical infrastructure delivery, and support business development through proposals, client relationship management, and strategic account growth.

Serve as the primary liaison between Japanese customers and international engineering teams on data and AI projects. Gather and translate customer requirements into actionable engineering tasks, manage project scope, schedules, and deliverables, lead customer meetings and status reviews, and coordinate risks and issue resolution. The role requires strong Japanese communication, a basic IT background, proactive prioritization, and collaboration with executives, stakeholders, architects, and engineers.

Lead international customer projects for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, managing schedules, budgets, quality, risks, customer milestones, escalations, and team capacity. Ensure customer satisfaction, on-time delivery, project profitability, and product economic success. Coordinate global development teams, communicate with customers, negotiate solutions, forecast and realign plans, and maintain control of project spending and target sales.

Lead construction project management for roof and facade works in industrial, semiconductor, or advanced manufacturing projects. Responsibilities include project planning, scheduling, stakeholder and consultant coordination, site progress and quality monitoring, statutory inspections, procurement, reporting, compliance, safety, and team leadership. The role requires managing project budgets, timelines, risks, contractors, suppliers, and multidisciplinary teams.

Lead and support a global project management team for game localization. Ensure account profitability, document and improve processes, oversee production coordination, manage client communications, monitor finances and forecasts, and drive technology and automation adoption. Supervise PMs, handle client issues, support training and development, and maintain high-quality, timely delivery across follow-the-sun workflows.

Manage Japan pharmaceutical R&D projects and asset strategy execution. Coordinate cross-functional teams, timelines, milestones, budgets, risks, status reporting, and stakeholder communications. Support clinical development planning through approval, ensure alignment with global strategies, facilitate decision-making, track mitigation actions, and promote operational excellence across Japan Development teams.

Manage software delivery for warehouse automation projects in Tokyo. Define WES functionality, lead customer requirements workshops through signoff, coordinate internal teams and clients, provide technical guidance, support testing and deployment, resolve software issues, and maintain project documentation. The role requires strong WMS and intralogistics expertise, collaboration with product and project teams, and approximately 20%–30% travel to project sites.

Provides security-focused technical account management for strategic enterprise customers using Red Hat technologies. Advises on security monitoring, software vulnerabilities, patching, remediation, trusted software supply chains, and cloud-native platforms. Coordinates with customers, Product Security, engineering, consulting, and support teams to resolve incidents and implement upgrades. Builds customer relationships, develops engagement plans, mentors security and operations staff, documents use cases, and supports adoption of RHEL, containers, Kubernetes, and Ansible. Requires English and Japanese communication, international travel, and five or more years of relevant experience.

Lead small to medium-sized construction and workplace fit-out projects, managing schedules, budgets, quality, change control, governance, stakeholder communication, reporting, and project teams. The role requires coordinating clients, consultants, quantity surveyors, and internal stakeholders while ensuring compliance with safety, health, environmental, and quality standards. The Project Manager will also support client relationships, identify business-development opportunities, and capture project learnings.

Own end-to-end programs, executive priorities, schedules, logistics, budgets, travel coordination, vendor relationships, and leadership communications across APAC and global teams. Translate priorities into plans, manage cross-functional workstreams, identify risks, improve operating processes, facilitate meetings, reconcile expenses, and prepare executive-ready updates. The role supports executives across Japan, Korea, and global time zones while coordinating stakeholders and external partners.

Lead technical program management for automotive engagements in Tokyo. Establish milestones, timelines, deliverables, sprint execution, and software roadmaps through series production. Manage OEM and supplier relationships, serve as the primary customer contact for Japanese OEMs, translate requirements into engineering work, coordinate international teams, resolve dependencies and issues, and drive projects to completion across sites and time zones.

Oversee portfolios of Generative AI data operations projects, managing delivery, capacity planning, vendors, budgets, quality, risks, automation, and client reporting. Coach project managers and coordinators, collaborate with recruiting and finance, enforce data security and compliance, and improve processes across distributed teams.

Leads fit-out project delivery as the primary client contact, managing stakeholder communication, decision-making, integrated project and cost management teams, and delivery against client requirements. The role requires leading large multidisciplinary construction teams, coordinating stakeholders, solving problems under pressure, and overseeing banking, high-rise, or apartment projects.

Leads pharmaceutical development projects across therapeutic areas from early development through lifecycle management. Responsibilities include aligning global and Japan strategies, coordinating medical, clinical, regulatory, manufacturing, marketing, and safety functions, managing launch readiness, risks, budgets, timelines, and project governance, and coaching team members. The role requires strong bilingual Japanese-English communication, strategic thinking, leadership, project management expertise, and at least three years of R&D experience.

Lead Japan-based project portfolio execution for ABB’s Electrification Distribution Solutions business. Responsibilities include project governance, continuous improvement, operational standardization, profitability, forecasting, resource allocation, risk and contract management, stakeholder engagement, and resolution of complex project issues. The role also oversees, develops, and strengthens the Project Execution team while ensuring safety, quality, schedule adherence, customer satisfaction, and financial performance.

Provide technical leadership for pharmaceutical OSD, packaging, and ASRS projects. Oversee design contractors, review drawings and specifications, ensure compliance with GMP, engineering, SHE, and regulatory requirements, and resolve technical risks during design phases. Develop technical requirement specifications, participate in risk assessments and design assurance, and support equipment selection, supplier alignment, installation, commissioning, validation, and cross-functional stakeholder collaboration.

Supports the delivery of construction and workplace projects throughout their lifecycle. Responsibilities include project planning, research, benchmarking, documentation, scheduling, progress tracking, change control, reporting, stakeholder coordination, meeting participation, and preparation of meeting minutes and formal presentations. The role liaises with clients, contractors, consultants, and internal teams to maintain communication and help ensure projects are delivered successfully.

Lead the full delivery of small to medium-sized construction and workplace fit-out projects, managing schedules, budgets, quality, safety, change control, governance, reporting, and stakeholder communications. The role leads cross-functional teams, coordinates clients, consultants, contractors, and quantity surveyors, ensures compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards, and identifies opportunities with existing clients. Candidates need at least five years of international commercial office, retail, or showroom fit-out project management experience and fluent English.