Description and Requirements

• Job Summary

Head of Strategy Planning & Project Delivery role is responsible for managing and overseeing a diverse portfolio of complex, large-scale Infrastructure programs and projects. The role directly engages senior stakeholders across the organization globally, including Global and Regional CIOs, CTOs and Senior Business Executives to foster strong relationships and successful delivery of strategic initiatives. In addition to leading the team of Project Management, this position plays a critical role in financial governance for the CTO organization in Japan, including investment planning, budgeting, and ongoing portfolio performance management. The ideal candidate combines strong leadership capability, deep program management expertise, and the ability to drive execution in a fast-paced, multinational environment.

• Responsibilities

• Plan, execute, and oversee large and complex global programs, coordinating delivery across geographically dispersed teams and engaging stakeholders across regions to ensure alignment, transparency, and successful outcomes.

• Supervise the end-to-end IT Infrastructure project portfolio, ensuring alignment with organization's strategy, roadmaps, and business priority.
• Drive standardization and operational excellence through PMO practices, methodologies, governance frameworks, tools, and reporting structures.
• Engage regularly with senior executives to provide updates, influence decisions, and ensure alignment with strategic objectives.
• Manage financial planning and governance for the CTO organization, including annual budgeting, forecasting, cost tracking, and investment prioritization.
• Oversee the CTO investment portfolio, ensuring value realization, financial discipline, and rigorous business case management.
• Identify Project risks, issues, and dependencies across the portfolio and drive proactive mitigation, timely escalating to CIO/CTO leaderships.
• Partner with other technology units under CIOs, to ensure seamless execution of cross-functional and enterprise-wide initiatives.
• Guide and provide mentorships, and lead a team (over 10 employees), fostering a high-performance and delivery-focused culture.

• Requirements (Experience, Skills, Education)

• Proven track records of leading large IT Infrastructure project in end-to-end, from project initiation, defining scope and objectives, timelines, and success criteria and business cases.

• 10+ years of experience in Global and multi-national IT organization, in the role of either strategy planning, project management.

• Strong executive communication skills and writing/reporting capability - able to produce concise, structured reports and presentations, synthesize complex data into clear insights, and manage proactive issue/risk escalation.

• Advanced financial management skills, including budgeting, forecasting, investment planning, and interpreting financial/operational metrics to inform decisions.

• Excellent stakeholder and vendor management, aligning IT, Finance, Risk/Compliance, Procurement, and external partners to drive outcomes and resolve conflicts.
• Bachelor's degree in business, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field

• Preferable

• Strong documentation and analytical skills, with the ability to create crisp, structured updates
• Familiarity with enterprise-level IT infrastructure and experience managing large-scale infrastructure projects such as data center migrations, office relocations, and desktop or mobile technology refresh/upgrade initiatives.
• Experience supporting operational resilience, disaster recovery, and business continuity programs.
• Japanese: JLPT N3 or equivalent
• PMP certified

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メットライフ生命では、ワークライフバランスと社員の心身の健康を促進する福利厚生を提供しています。社員はフレックスタイム制度、年次有給休暇、特別連続休暇、リフレッシュ休暇等の休暇を利用できます。また、社会保険や団体保険の他、旅行や英会話教室で使える割引も提供しています。柔軟に働けるよう、オフィス勤務と在宅勤務を組み合わせた勤務形態の導入や、短時間勤務制度、また柔軟性のあるドレスコードなども設けています。

Benefits We Offer

MetLife Japan offers a comprehensive benefits package that promotes work-life balance and employee wellbeing. Employees can take advantage of flex time policy and a generous time-off policy, national holidays, annual paid leave, special consecutive leave, and refreshment leave. We also provide full social insurance coverage, a commuting expense reimbursement, group insurance, and discounts on travel and English language lessons. To support work flexibility, employees also have hybrid work options, shortened working hours for parents with children in third grade or below, and a casual dress code.

メットライフについて

メットライフは、グローバルで展開する金融サービス企業です。個人および法人のお客さまがより確かな未来を築けるよう、保険、年金、社員福利厚生給付、資産管理のサポートを提供しています。1868年に創業したメットライフは、世界40以上の市場で事業を展開し、米国、アジア、中南米、ヨーロッパ、中東において業界をリードしています。

メットライフ生命は、日本初の外資系生命保険会社として、1973年2月に国内での営業を開始しました。当社のPurpose「ともに歩んでゆく。よりたしかな未来に向けて。」は、メットライフが誇るグローバルネットワークと世界中のベストプラクティスを活かし、お客さまのニーズに応え、地域社会との信頼関係を築くという信念を表しています。

メットライフは、New Frontier戦略の一環として、AIを活用し、人を中心に据えた未来を築いています。私たちは、AIを活用して顧客へのサービス向上、地域社会への支援、そして働き方の変革を推進していく中で、好奇心、適応力、そして成長意欲を持つ人材を求めています。メットライフにおいて、AIは、人間の判断力、創造性、継続的な改善を支える責任あるパートナーであり、信頼、インクルージョン、そして長期的な価値の構築に貢献しています。About MetLife

About MetLife

MetLife Inc., through its subsidiaries and affiliates (MetLife), is one of the world's leading financial services companies, providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to help individual and institutional customers build a more confident future. Founded in 1868, MetLife has operations in more than 40 markets globally and holds leading positions in the United States, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.

MetLife Japan began operations in February 1973 as Japan's first foreign-owned life insurance company. Our purpose, "Always with you, building a more confident future," encapsulates our strong commitment to leveraging our global network and best practices worldwide to stand with our customers and build trust with our communities.

As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future. We're looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long-term value.