Assistant Manager - Tech Consulting & Partner Strategy

About the role

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Assistant Manager, Tech Consulting with 5+ years experience to join our team. The position requires an experienced professional with the ability to work with executives in a dynamic and geographically distributed environment, collaborating with peers and members supporting other TTS-US businesses and functions.

Essential Functions

• Develop and implement comprehensive partner strategies aligned with organizational goals
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize potential partners based on business fit, market opportunity, and strategic objectives
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders at partner organizations
• Negotiate and structure partnership agreements, ensuring mutual benefit and clear performance metrics
• Collaborate with internal teams to launch and manage joint initiatives, co-marketing campaigns, and product integrations
• Monitor and report on partnership performance, providing insights and recommendations for optimization
• Stay current on industry trends, competitive landscape, and emerging partnership opportunities
• Represent the company at industry events, conferences, and partner meetings
• Provide IT consulting support to both internal teams and partner organizations
• This includes assessing technology needs, recommending best-fit solutions, and advising on digital transformation initiatives to enhance collaboration and operational effectiveness
• Communicate with the customers and gather technical requirements with Sales teams
• Create documents, presentations, demonstrations for the customer
• Guide the adoption of new technologies, ensure compliance with industry standards, and offer expertise on IT governance and risk management practices
• Perform supervisory and/or advisory role in accordance with the company policies and applicable laws

Requirements

• Required Education and Experience:
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Business Administration, or a related field
• Bilingual Japanese / English languages
• 5+ years of experience in project management, partner management, business development, or similar roles
• Participate in RFP/RFI responses, proposal creation, and technical presentations
• 2+ years leading cross-functional initiatives or supervising small teams (formal or matrix)
• Hands-on experience assessing technology environments, gathering technical requirements, and creating solution proposals
• Comfortable guiding customers on digital transformation (cloud adoption, integration, security, governance, data)
• Able to produce customer-facing artifacts (presentations, demos, architectures, proposals, statements of work)
• Strong executive presence—presenting at industry events, leading partner meetings, and managing C‑level stakeholders
• Excellent written/oral communication and technical writing for customer-facing documentation
• Proven success identifying, negotiating, and managing partnerships with measurable revenue or adoption outcomes
• Experience gathering customer technical requirements, creating presentations/demos, and advising on digital transformation and IT governance/risk
• Track record collaborating with Sales, Product, and Marketing to launch joint initiatives and product integrations
• Strong stakeholder management and communication; comfortable presenting at industry events and executive-level forums
• Familiarity with BI reporting, and project tools; ability to build performance dashboards and executive reports
• Travel: This position requires travel up to 30%