Propose and deliver RFID-based IoT solutions for publishers, bookstores, warehouses and related businesses, identifying issues, running demos and PoCs, and coordinating deployments and partners.
About this role
This company (a joint effort of major publishers Kodansha, Shogakukan, and Shueisha with the Marubeni Group) transforms Japan's publishing distribution with RFID (IC tags) and DX. In the IoT Solution division, this Business Planning Manager (section-chief, next department-head candidate) plans and drives an RFID-based bookstore-DX business under the division head — building alliances with bookstores, publishers, and related companies and owning business planning, RFID-adoption strategy, and sales strategy end to end: business-model/roadmap design, budget/KPI/ROI monitoring, governance-aware business management as a general-trading-company subsidiary, proposal-based sales and alliance building with executives, contract negotiation, adoption initiatives with a dedicated sales team, and cross-team/vendor project management. Full-time (seishain); Tokyo (Toranomon, Minato); no relocation, some domestic travel.
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