About Abbott
Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people's health. We're always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott
At Abbott, You Can Do Work That Matters, Grow, And Learn, Care For Yourself And Family, Be Your True Self And Live a Full Life. You Will Have Access To

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

Abbott Japan HR
Our local HR team is dedicated in supporting our employees from every facet from recruitment, development, compensation & benefits, safety, care for employees and their families. The department consists of highly competent professionals working very closely with the business as ONE HR to fulfill our mission. This is a great opportunity for you to join a top-tier organization and impeccable HR team.

Main Purpose of Role

• Responsible for learning and development curriculum planning, implementing and executing of learning and development programs within Japan that make the best use of Abbott employee's current and future abilities.
• Manage the overall training delivery and operations activities in Japan and ensure they are conducted efficiently, cost–effectively and in accordance with the organization's policies and standards.
• Individual contributor with comprehensive knowledge in the events management, coordination, and management of training and development activities and tasks
• Self-starter that is able to work with limited supervision but with regional and global mindset to keep leadership informed
• Ability to execute specialized projects while meeting the organization's needs.
• Ability to trouble-shoot issues and problem-solve while considering current training processes.
• Ability to flex depending on Japan market local needs and able to quickly support ad-hoc projects when and where needed

Apply developed learning and development knowledge and skills in the planning, implementation and delivery of training programs; work with the organization on learning needs of their business through vehicles such as the training needs analysis.

Support sourcing, evaluating, and tracking third party training vendors and programs; local training, events management (and others as needed) vendors contract processes with local purchasing; support and maintain on-going vendor relationships.

Maintain and analyze organization and individual training metrics in order to monitor the effectiveness of internal and external training programs; provide operational support to metrics gathering systems.

Support researching and sourcing training programs and resources, or recommend externally-provided programs, which meet the needs of individuals and are consistent with the organization's overall training plan.

Provide guidance to employees about the organization's training programs and policies and arrange for them to participate in internal and external training so the organization's training resources are allocated effectively.

Coordinate delivery and operations activities to ensure training programs are delivered with high quality resources.

• Coordinate day to day logistical support to execute the delivery of training.
• Procures, organizes, maintains, prepares and provides, set-up of materials, audio visual equipment and classrooms.
• Provide customer service to organization's employees with training registration and cancellations, course offering questions and other training related inquires.
• Maintain and updated training registration site for local classes and monitor classes and enrollments.
• Establish local course costs for open enrollment classes and intact request.
• Support other TD shared goals activities that require L&D support (key talent programs, capability, webinars, etc)

Track local training budget and report to management on a monthly basis the budget status and LBE.

Support the processing of invoices, documentation and monthly reconciliation for responsible budgets.

Support global and local translations by providing in-country review of translated content.

Keep abreast of developments and innovations in training and education in industry and government education sectors so the organization's training activities remain current and relevant

Qualifications
Education

Education Level
Associates Degree or equivalent Required

Major/Field of Study
HR, General Management or Business Administration or relevant studies

Education Level
Bachelor's Degree Preferred But Not Required
Experience/Background
Experience

• HR experience is NOT necessary
• 3-5 years training operations or relevant experience
• 2 years of project management experience
• Proficient in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint
• Able to lift up to 50 pounds
• Excellent organizational skills
• Strong communication skills
• Strong service orientation skills
• operations background particularly procurement is highly welcome

Experience Details

• Need on a daily basis to maintain optimal operations processes
• 2 years of project management experience
• Need on a project basis to effectively manage components of a project
• Proficient in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint
• Use on a daily basis
• Able to lift up to 50 pounds
• Need when setting up training classes
• Excellent organizational skills
• Stay agile and flexible to respond to changing organizational needs
• Keep multiple stakeholders informed/Answer customer inquiries

Position Details

• Travel 10%
• Located in Tokyo, Mita office
• Full-Time

Language

• Strong command in both Japanese and English (Speaking & Writing)