- We launched our first mid-size office during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- I serve concurrently in Project Planning Dept. I and Project Management Dept. I, handling everything from land acquisition to sales, regardless of asset class. Among the projects I have been involved in, the one that stands out most is S-GATE FIT Nihonbashi Bakurocho, the first project I planned after joining Mitsubishi Corporation Urban Development.
We had no prior experience developing standalone mid-size offices, so we started by establishing a company-wide strategic approach. At that time, office vacancy rates in Tokyo were soaring due to the pandemic, and the perception of offices was deteriorating. Despite facing opposition within the company, the project team painstakingly collected and verified minute data and built logic to gain consensus, and though it was challenging, the sense of accomplishment when the project was successfully commercialized was immense. This project was especially memorable as it was my first responsibility after joining and involved elements similar to partial asset swaps and was a joint venture with another company, encapsulating a variety of challenges.
- Striving to be a generalist, a project manager who covers everything broadly and deeply.
- I aspired to join Mitsubishi Corporation Urban Development because I felt it would be an opportunity to broadly experience the development of various asset classes from start to finish. I initially worked in a completely different field at a judicial scrivener's office but wanted to create something lasting in the community, so I switched careers to become a developer focused on residential projects. I had decided from the start to first gain experience before moving up to work as a developer dealing in commercial and logistics facilities.
Having gone through a variety of experiences, I realized I want to be a generalist. As a project manager, I must obtain cooperation not only from different departments but also from stakeholders as I do my work. I cannot make accurate decisions without a certain level of knowledge, be it architectural knowledge or legal knowledge. That is why I aspire to be someone who covers everything broadly and deeply, not just broadly and shallowly, although this is easier said than done. That is why, even for trivial matters, I place value on thinking about the reasons for things and having my own ideas about everything rather than deciding things willy-nilly. Doing so means I can clearly communicate to others what I want to do and why I think that way, and this makes it easier to correct things when I make a mistake. I believe that thinking involves engaging with things as if they were relevant to you, which deepens input, builds knowledge, and expands the scope of your skills. We have a culture where individual opinions are heard and there are many professionals within the company that you can talk to, so I appreciate this environment and hope to become a reliable resource for those around me.
