Senior Project Manager and Team Lead, Tokyo
- Application Deadline: April 24, 2026
- Tokyo, Japan
Do you have a strong drive for delivering value to clients within market expansion and growth in a highly international context? Would you like to work in the intersection of business and diplomacy, interacting with executives and senior politicians? Take this opportunity to be part of Business Sweden’s team in Tokyo.
As senior project manager and team lead your main area of work is to lead teams of consultants working close with our clients. You are responsible for building strong client relationships, design and drive analytical work, secure that insights and recommendations are well underpinned and packaged in an easy to understand and concrete manner. As a senior project manager at Business Sweden, you interact with a wide range of stakeholders within client organizations as well as governmental agencies, academia, and Business Sweden colleagues around the world. You will work closely with the Country Manager in developing the team and the office.
The role as Senior Project Manager position encompasses a diverse range of assignments such as:
- Drive client dialogues, and take on full sales cycle responsibility including monitoring leads, developing pipeline, and developing project scope, proposals, and cost
- Lead, manage, and develop project team members to ensure successful project deliveries and team competency development
- Design and drive analytical work, secure that insights and recommendations are well underpinned and packaged in an easy to understand and concrete manner
- Building strong client relationships, design and drive analytical work, secure that insights and recommendations are well underpinned and packaged
- Proactively find new business opportunities, drive insight selling in the region and have an active role in developing our value propositions.
We assume that you have a keen interest in leadership issues and in developing as a leader in your role. We offer leadership training to provide you with the conditions to succeed in your leadership.
You will report to the Trade Commissioner and the position is based in Tokyo, but you will be expected to work with our teams and clients globally, as required.
We apply probationary employment in all applicable positions.
Work with great people
Skills & Requirements
Core competencies and collaborative skills
- Demonstrate commitment, honesty, and accountability
- Provide support and take ownership to ensure high quality and on-time delivery
- Consulting skill-set: hypothesis-led problem solving, structuring, and communicating complex ideas, strategic thinking
- Entrepreneurial mindset, ability to work proactively and independently with relevant goals and tasks towards growing the region
- Result- and customer-oriented with a strategic mind-set and proven business acumen
- Collaborate effectively to achieve results with a positive can-do attitude
- Contribute to team spirit and transparent communication, supporting juniors and peers in their development
- Easily adapts to new ways of working and circumstances
- Voice your own ideas and share opinions. Show appreciation for different perspectives.
- Define and deliver on clear goals and communicate them effectively.
- Build trust and respect through competence and integrity.
- Promote global teamwork and contribute to an inclusive work environment where we value different perspectives.
Formal requirements
- Master of Science in Business Administration or Engineering or equivalent
- Minimum 7 years of relevant experience from Management Consulting and Strategic Business Development
- Experience from leading and coaching consultant teams and prior experience from an international environment, proven track record of successfully leading multinational project teams and working cross-border
- Strong experience from one or more of our core consultancy service areas, including Growth Advisory, M&A and Supply Chain
- Proven track record in sales and the ability to independently drive client dialogues, and take on full sales cycle responsibility
- Relevant experiences are within client facing business development as well as management consulting projects focused on revenue growth. The position is not focused on digital transformation and restructuring projects.
- A high level of proficiency in written and spoken English is a requirement, Swedish and / or Japanese will be strong merits.
Application
Please submit your CV and cover letter in English as soon as possible as we will be screening applications on a rolling basis. It is a requirement with both the CV and cover letter as well as it is to submit the application via the online system. Kindly do not send your applications via e-mail.
Great Place to Work
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Global exchanges and career opportunities
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Exclusive focus on our client’s growth agenda
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Extensive responsibility
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Diversified teams with world class colleagues
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Training academy for continuous development
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Entrepreneurial environment
About the company
Business Sweden is a global consultancy organization with approximately 500 colleagues working in 46 countries. We all share the same passion - creating maximum value for Sweden.
Business Sweden’s purpose is to help Swedish companies grow global sales and international companies invest and expand in Sweden.
Through our consultancy services we offer our customers strategic advice and hands-on support in their international growth and establishment.
Business Sweden is owned by the Swedish Government and the industry, a partnership that provides access to contacts and networks at all levels.
At Business Sweden we value and encourage applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds related to culture, gender, age, ethnicity, race, religion and belief, disability, nationality, sexual orientation and gender identity.
The diversity of our people is an important foundation of our culture and builds a workplace where everyone can contribute with unique experiences, perspectives and cultures.
OUR VALUESOur high performance culture rests on that all our employees live our core values. We will never have guidelines for every situation we will meet, but if all of us are guided by a strong sense of our values, we will always navigate in the right direction.
RESPONSIBILITYThis is the foundation of our culture. Taking responsibility is a way to show commitment to our work. We take ownership of the relationships with our clients and stay true to our word.
COLLABORATIONAlone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Collaboration knows no geographical borders. At Business Sweden, we act as one global team to create the best possible value for our clients.
IMPACTBy monitoring the world around us and identifying possibilities , we make a difference by helping companies to seize new, sustainable business opportunities. We create impact both for our clients and for Sweden.
Hanna Leffler | Contact Person
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