Business Strategy & Planning - President Office, Ad & Media Company (A&M)

Job Description:

Business Overview
The Rakuten Group offers over 70 services in Japan and overseas across a wide range of fields, including internet services such as e-commerce, travel, and digital content, credit cards, fintech (financial) services such as banking, securities, electronic money, and smartphone app payments, mobile services such as mobile carrier operations and even professional sports. By organically linking these services through membership, centered on Rakuten members, we have formed a unique "Rakuten Ecosystem."
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Department Overview

Since its founding in 1997, Rakuten has expanded its business scale centered on its shopping mall business, Rakuten Ichiba, and credit card business, Rakuten Card. We have also successfully launched a new telecommunications business, Rakuten Mobile. Based on these three pillars, Rakuten has grown to ¥2.3 trillion in group revenue by fiscal year 2024. We believe that the expansion and growth of our advertising business will become a fourth pillar of our key business areas that will drive the Group's future growth. In addition to our existing businesses, including our internet advertising business, "Rakuten Marketing/LinkShare", marketing research business, "Rakuten Insight", and marketing solutions business, "Rakuten Data Marketing", we have a vision to create new business models by leveraging synergies with the "Rakuten Ecosystem," leveraging all of our advertising business assets, including our 70+ services, "Rakuten Membership", "Rakuten Points", "brand power", and "member data", to contribute as an unrivaled marketing partner to our clients.

The President's Office/Corporate Strategy Department, to which this position belongs, was newly reorganized in July 2025. It is a small but elite strategic planning department directly under the Business President, and is involved in projects focused on strategic planning, business conception, management transformation, and business development. As Rakuten's fourth pillar, it has a dynamic mission to drive the evolution of its advertising business, making this the perfect organization and timing for you to be involved in upstream management and experience its dynamism.

Position: Why We Hire

As a member of the newly reorganized organization that will make advertising the fourth pillar of Rakuten, he will serve as the right-hand man to the President of the Ad & Media Company. In this organization that is still in the launch phase, he will work with the President to consistently lead the business strategy from formulation to execution, and is expected to establish a new advertising business model that makes maximum use of the assets of the Rakuten economic sphere.

Attractions

• Deepen your expertise as a corporate planning professional at A&M and pursue a career as a business manager in the future.
• Expand your experience in business strategy and management in other Rakuten Group services or businesses.

Position Details

As a founding member of the new President's Office organization, you will be responsible for communicating with top management (the President and each business unit head), connecting upstream strategies with on-site business operations, and working at the core of business strategy, analyzing the current situation, identifying issues, formulating measures, and leading projects necessary to become the fourth pillar of our business.

Major Duties

• Developing a company-wide advertising strategy
• Proposing top management proposals to the CxO
• Driving strategic projects

Specific Project Examples

• Overseeing the entire business's service/product portfolio and planning optimal resource allocation and growth strategies
• Integrating and reorganizing marketing assets within the group to create synergies and achieve efficiency
• Leading the creation of new businesses and the expansion of existing businesses through M&A and strategic alliances
• Identifying and analyzing opportunities for expansion into overseas markets and promoting global business expansion

Work Environment

Organizational Structure - Business Division: Ad & Media Company /Global Ad Division: Approximately 700 employees - Department: President's Office/Corporate Strategy Department: 8 employees - Age Range: 30-40 - Ratio: More than half are mid-career hires
As a small, elite organization, each employee has considerable discretion, allowing for a sense of speed in their work. In addition, during the launch phase, we have an open environment where employees can proactively propose and address issues and initiatives while communicating closely with management.

Mid-Career Hire Background

Consulting experience in strategic consulting - Business planning experience in the IT industry

Mandatory Qualifications:

• The ability to identify fundamental issues from complex situations and consider solutions from multiple perspectives.
• The communication and project management skills to build smooth relationships and reach consensus with diverse stakeholders (executive management, division managers, field personnel, etc.).
• The ability to accurately articulate and visualize abstract concepts/insights.

Desired Qualifications:

You must have any of the following experience and qualifications:
- Experience in strategic planning and execution of new or existing businesses worth tens of billions of yen
- 2-3+ years of work experience at a consulting firm
- 2-3+ years of policy planning experience at a government agency
- Experience in data analysis and modeling using Excel and SQL

Other Information:

Additional information on Location
Rakuten Crimson House 1-14-1 Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
Additional information on English Qualification
English Requirement: Yes *TOEIC, TOEFL, IELTS, etc. *Details will be provided if you proceed to the selection process.

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