Job offer: Assistant in Tokyo with MetLife

• Optimize company-wide business architecture to maximize corporate value with long-term view for better customer experience, employee engagement and higher efficiency / effectiveness
• Support building mid-term strategy and identify key capabilities to be enhanced
• Design business architecture aligning with IT architecture and its roadmaps
• Clarify business requirements, analyze as-is pain points, design to-be business model and calculate business cases in terms of customer / producer experiences and internal operating models (eg, process, organization, technology)
• Support streamlining project portfolio considering engagement dependency and overlaps
• Lead and motivate project members consist of cross-functional departments for the successful project delivery
• Offer constructive ideas, influence and negotiates on high impact, high risk and highly complex situations
• Establish business architecture framework, tool, methodology, and develop / maintain business values ​​and capabilities
• Support Lead Business Architect in the overall direction, guidance and definition of the business architecture to effectively support business strategy

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in related fields such as business architecture, enterprise architecture, strategy planning or business process re-engineering with the deep knowledge of those concepts and methodologies
• Demonstrated experience optimizing and simplifying complex business processes, technology and change programs across a complex organization

Skills:

• Communication and program management skills, and the ability to work effectively with IT management and staff
• Ability to influence, negotiate and constructively challenge to achieve quality improvement
• Ability to work independently with flexibility and focus in a dynamic environment

Preferable:

• Extensive knowledge of systems architecture, process modeling and excellent analytical skills, consultative skills
• Analytic and strategic thinker capable of translating senior-level direction and corporate policies and procedures into structured, practical, efficient and effective business processes

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and related field experience required; Advanced degree preferred
• 5+ years professional experience, preferably within insurance, financial services or management consulting firms

Language: Language:

• Bilingual (expert level fluency) with English and Japanese
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Personality:

• Strong relationship building and interpersonal skills with the ability to work with stakeholders from all levels
• Well organized with ability to lead others in a team environment

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