**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)** An Equal Opportunity Employer Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce. We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com