Industry: Consumer Goods Other
AVERAGE Annual Salary: 14,000,000 yen
Japanese: 4 - fluent
English: 3 - good
DESCRIPTION:
Location: Tokyo, Japan
The company is one of the world's leading global office supplies manufacturers. Sales are over 1 billion US$ and growing. Japan is a small but profitable and growing unit of the Group.
Responsibilities:
- Extremely diverse.
- Manage the day to day operations of Japan.
- P/L responsibility, financial reporting, managing sales and marketing, inventory management, sales and expense budgeting / forecasting, new product development, sales channel rationalization, customer relations, industry networking, staff motivation and leadership.
- Grow sales through established channels and exploring new growth opportunities.
- Manage sales staff and support dealer relationships.
- Sales and expense budgeting and quarterly forecasting.
- Understand and report monthly BS/IS results.
- Work with staff, customers, and factory to develop new products, Assist and train sales staff.
- Manage ordering process for optimal inventory levels.
- Network to develop industry relationships and business leads.
Skills and Experience:
- Candidate should be a proactive sales professional with a strong understanding of FMCG sales channels.
- Be a proven professional with strong leadership skills.
- Good understanding of financial reporting.
- Possess creative marketing and product development ability.
- Enter into an established company with a positive track record but also a "start-up" potential and feel to it.
- An aggressive mid management professional looking to take the next step in their career.
- Emphasis on sales background but also experience in other related disciplines such as marketing, product
development, and must be able to read basic financial results.
- Will report to President of Japan located in the US.
