Responsibilities:

• The Head of the Execution Excellence team will be responsible to lead, manage, and coach a diverse team of professionals and experts to proliferate key enablement capabilities cross-functionally across IT and Business domains

Transformation

• Enable MetLife’s Agile enterprise transformation through coaching, training, and coordination of the Global Centers of Excellence (CoE)
• Drive and Facilitate Agile and ADM implementation for further success of team delivery
• Broadcast internal / external agility success stories for inspiring members
• Support creation and leading of Agile Community of Practices
• Support the embedding of Agile Delivery into existing projects and transform teams to use Agile methods
• Lead and drive Agile vision for the organization and ensure education and coaching support mechanisms
• Support for education and up-skilling of IT members to help the organization to be capable of executing on the strategy and transformative capabilities

IT Strategy & Governance

• Define, establish, and drive IT enablement through the development of the IT strategic roadmap, annual and mid-tern plan aligning with Local/Global strategy and transformation objectives
• Report / Communicate progress of strategic plan with stakeholders, incl. IT & BU management & members
• Enable team based single point of contact of the governance and audit topics across IT LoB
• Support initiatives led by Management Governance, such as annual inventory of policies, IT org changes, etc.

Requirements:

Experience:

• 5+ years leading or implementing Agile and Agile related transformational change in large organizations
• 7+ years leading and managing people
• Experience managing and coaching teams of 5 or more individuals
• 5+ years working with and communicating at a CXO/Sr management team level

Skills:

• Logical and strategic thinking 
• Ability to develop clear strategic plans and translate those plans into practical & implementable actions
• Ability to view big picture and determine dependencies between actions to achieve results
• Creative problem solving and able to incorporate past learnings into continuous improvement
• Strong communicator both written and verbal (EN and JP) across all functional levels
• Able to develop win-win solutions within challenging circumstances
• Ability to lead and drive initiatives and projects
• Able to work independently with minimum of instruction and supervision

Qualifications:

• University degree holder in business or technology related discipline
• Agile Certification (Scrum, Product Owner, SAFE, ACP etc) to demonstrate knowledge of Agile

Preferable:

• Experience working in JP Insurance industry is an advantage
• Experience working and managing activity in large global organizations
• Experience working within a technology team environment
• Advantage to have MBA or related field advanced degree
• Project management related certification is an advantage

Language:

• Bilingual required – Japanese: Native or N1 level , English: business level 

Personality:

• Creative thinker and innovative problem solver
• Personable and enjoys coaching people/teams
• Proactive and results-oriented
• Persuasive and tenacious
• Enjoys complex challenges and carries strong sense of responsibility