Mass Merchant Promotion - Super Deal Department Leader Candidate

Attractions of Our Service:

1. Sense of speed in business expansion
2. High profitability that can create investment sources
3. Database that can individually appeal to 100 million customers
4. Many opportunities for promotion/challenge
5. Great discretion to demonstrate individual abilities
6. Organizational culture that encourages new initiatives
7. Diversity of members with various skills

Mission of the Ichiba Merchant Group:
To create more touchpoints between partner companies and the world (users) through the growth of the Rakuten ecosystem

Attractions of working in the Ichiba Merchant Group:

• Possibility of taking on challenges at scale
• An environment where you can work autonomously
• An environment with a fast pace of growth

Position:
Why We Hire
To strengthen the organization

Position Details
You will be responsible for formulating and executing strategies to increase the number of companies using the Super DEAL service.

Specific duties:
Premise

• Classify companies based on the products they handle, assign a person in charge for each company group, and plan and execute strategies to increase the number of participating companies within those assigned groups.
• The main focus will be to promote service usage either to dedicated EC consultants (Rakuten employees) who act as intermediaries in communication with each company, or directly to the companies themselves.

Identifying issues for assigned company groups & promoting service usage
Further classify company groups by their specific challenges and promote usage methods that demonstrate how the service can solve those challenges.

Planning, design, and implementation

• Design initiatives to solve issues within company groups and remove bottlenecks that hinder the growth of participating companies.
  Example: For a company group struggling with low visit numbers, design and propose an initiative that can increase their visits and have them participate.
• Coordinate with various internal departments to negotiate resources for implementing initiatives, execute the plans, and have companies participate.

Feedback
Provide feedback on the effects brought about by service usage to the assigned company groups and the intervening EC consultants, and connect this to continuous service usage.

*For candidates for leadership positions:
You will be responsible for the management of team members and the formulation of strategies for the entire organization under your jurisdiction.

Work Environment
1 Manager, 3 members

More than half of the members joined mid-career.
Previous backgrounds: Machinery manufacturers, IT companies, etc.

　
Mandatory Qualifications:

• Person who has entrepreneurship
• Person who can lead business as one's own business

Desired Qualifications:

• Sales experience: 3+ years
• Business planning and strategy formulation experience: 3+ years
• Client marketing experience: 3+ years
• Project management experience: 3+ years
• Management experience: 3+ years
• Experience in launching new businesses
• Experience with SQL
• Experience in operation design and management
• Experience in data creation and management
• Experience in hypothesis testing
• EC business experience

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Those who are curious about new things(Who can face new things with fun)
• Those with strong positive emotions(Experience of overcoming hardship and adversity)
• Those who want a fast-growing environment
• Those who have a habit of delivering continuously (Experience of continuously achieving goals)

Other Information:
Additional information on Location
Rakuten Crimson House
1-14-1 Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo

　
Additional information on English Qualification
TOEIC Score exceeding 800 (or similar level of English ability) or a University Degree earned in an English-speaking country.
Proof of qualifications will be required by the time of the job offer.
If no evidence is available to prove the qualifications denoted above, taking an IP test, organized by Rakuten, during selection process is required. 　

Rakuten Group, Inc. Homepage Link

• Benefits:https://corp.rakuten.co.jp/careers/benefit/
• Recruitment Information:https://corp.rakuten.co.jp/careers/information/ * Employment type is detailed
• Rakuten Culture:https://corp.rakuten.co.jp/careers/culture/

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