A current stream of client demand has created an opportunity for a commercially credible Remote Training Specialist in First-Time Manager for assignments associated with Tokyo and the wider Asian market.

Brief Overview

This opportunity is targeted at a strong specialist trainer with proven First-Time Manager expertise and experience supporting people managers, supervisors, and team leads across Asia. The brief focuses on practical delivery, stakeholder alignment, and high-quality learner engagement.

We expect this work to suit trainers who are organised, responsive, and comfortable shaping delivery around business context, participant maturity, and operational realities.

Core Responsibilities

• Adapt delivery to the client brief, participant seniority, and the sector context without losing clarity or pace.
• Keep the learning intervention aligned with business priorities, not just topic coverage, so the work delivers visible value to the client.
• Use practical case studies, scenarios, tools, or workflows to make First-Time Manager content easier to apply after the session.
• Facilitate discussion, questions, and applied exercises in a way that keeps learning commercially relevant and outcome-focused.
• Deliver structured First-Time Manager training sessions for client teams linked to Tokyo and wider Asia.

Candidate Background

• Strong communication and facilitation skills, including the ability to explain complex material in a clear and applied way.
• Confidence working with client stakeholders and adjusting delivery to different business contexts, sectors, and learner groups.
• Previous experience delivering training, workshops, facilitation, coaching, or advisory work for professional audiences.
• Proven subject-matter credibility in First-Time Manager with evidence of practical business or corporate application.
• Availability for project-based work linked to Tokyo, Japan, and wider Asia where relevant.

Demonstrable expertise in First-Time Manager; confidence running workshops, training, or advisory sessions for corporate audiences; credible management experience, facilitation maturity, and strong behavioural coaching capability; comfortable working in remote / virtual environments.

Ideal candidates will have worked across people management, manager capability, team leadership, or change leadership, with the credibility to engage client stakeholders and deliver practical learning outcomes for business audiences.

Expression of Interest

The current requirement points to Remote / Virtual delivery and should suit someone comfortable supporting One-Off Assignment projects.

Suitable candidates should apply with a concise summary of relevant expertise, client-facing delivery experience, and current availability for assignments of this nature.