Project Manager – Creative Design Operations

The Opportunity
We are looking for Project Manager- Creative Design Operations to support our design and creative services team. This role is critical in bridging our internal stakeholders in Japan and creative specialists in Manila, ensuring projects are well-scoped, timelines are realistic, and feedback is clearly understood and actioned. As part of a global team, you will engage across multiple business units, cultures, and disciplines—ensuring project clarity, process excellence, and stakeholder trust. Your project management expertise will allow our designers to focus on their craft while you manage the operational complexity of creative delivery.

How You'll Make An Impact

• You will lead project scoping, planning, and coordination for creative deliverables.
• You will act as a bridge between clients and creative teams—capturing feedback, managing expectations, and translating needs into clear actions.
• You will support stakeholder engagement and foster strong, trust-based working relationships, manage processes, monitor deadlines, and ensure quality assurance across projects.
• You will facilitate reviews, gather approvals, and resolve blockers with minimal disruption to creative flow.
• You will provide visibility into project progress, risks, and opportunities for optimization.
• You will help drive process awareness, process improvement and documentation to scale creative operations.
• Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.
• You will be responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

Your Background

• You hold a bachelor's degree.
• More than 5 years' experience in project management, preferably in marketing, communications or creative settings.
• Experience in account management is a plus.
• Strong skills in process development, stakeholder engagement, and cross-functional collaboration, comfortable managing global projects across time zones and cultures.
• Lean Six Sigma certification or experience preferred, to support process improvement and efficiency, initiatives & Other relevant trainings and certifications such as PMP, Scrum or Agile project management.
• Proficiency in Japanese language (JLPT N2 or higher) preferred, to support collaboration with Japanese-speaking stakeholders.

More About Us
We pride ourselves on offering a holistic range of competitive benefit programs to support your financial, physical and mental wellbeing and personal development. We want you to truly thrive with us – in work and out. For this role, depending on grade and experience, we offer the following employee benefits:

• Employer-sponsored medical plan (inc. dental care and optical).
• Group Term Life insurance, Group Personal Accident insurance, Group Business Travel insurance.
• Hospitalization Insurance.
• Leave programs (Annual leave, medical leave, Hospitalization leave, Exam leave etc.).
• Annual rice allowance.
• SSS, HDMF, and Philhealth Coverage.
• Benefits are subject to the respective plan rules.

We can provide more information during the recruitment process.

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.

Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.