New Business Development / Agent Sales - Marketing Division

Job Description:

Business Overview
The Marketing Division leads the brand, creative, marketing, and membership initiatives across the Rakuten Group, which offers over 70 services. Our mission is to enhance membership value and expand the ecosystem of the Rakuten Group.

Department Overview
Marketing Planning Department is an organization that leads the planning of Rakuten Mobile's plans and product strategies and their implementation. The mission of the Business Incubation Section is to plan and develop new services and businesses for the next several years, and to establish unique contract acquisition methods through collaboration with external parties.

Why We Hire

This is an opportunity to be involved in “launching new projects” at Rakuten Mobile, a company that has been revolutionizing the Japanese telecommunications industry. While the three major carriers are launching powerful marketing initiatives, Rakuten needs to incubate new projects that other companies cannot imitate, and we are looking for a wide range of people who can lead the way. We are looking for people who want to take on challenges that will have an impact on society by fully utilizing their past experience in marketing and sales. Those who can plan logically based on data, and promote with passion after the start of operations. Those who want to anticipate needs and plan services, products, and measures that do not exist yet.

Position Details

You will be responsible for growing the “Agency Planning”, which has just been launched. After familiarizing yourself with the business and building relationships with related parties, you will take on the challenge of developing new business.

• Agency Planning - Alliance with language schools and VISA support companies to increase the number of contracts with foreign residents in Japan
• Alliance with insurance agencies to increase the number of contracts with senior citizens.
• Planning new agency projects

• New business development - Identify issues facing society, partner companies, and users.
• Planning of services and measures that lead to solutions to issues
• Execution and verification of PoC
• Planning and operation of expansion plans

Mandatory Qualifications:

• Experience in sales or practical experience in business consulting
• Business experience in both Japanese and English

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in business development
• Experience in planning proposals, solution proposals, and consulting sales
• Experience in project management
• Experience in negotiating and coordinating with diverse stakeholders
• Team building skills
• Ability to adapt flexibly to changing situations
• Skills in PowerPoint and Excel

Languages: English (Overall - 2 - Intermediate), Japanese (Overall - 4 - Fluent)

In Japanese, Rakuten stands for ‘optimism.’ It means we believe in the future. It’s an understanding that, with the right mind-set, we can make the future better by what we do today. So we challenge ourselves to evolve, innovate and experiment, to create a better, brighter future for everyone. Today, our 70+ businesses span e-commerce, digital content, communications and fintech, bringing the joy of discovery to almost 1.3 billion members across the world.

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