Leads BOOKTRAIL’s bookstore business, overseeing sales and operations teams of 15–20 people while driving adoption, major-chain negotiations, store support, and service improvements.
About this role
PubteX, formed in March 2022 by the Marubeni group and the publishers Kodansha, Shogakukan and Shueisha to reform publishing distribution through DX, is hiring a Business Planning Officer for its management planning office, which was set up under the president in April 2025 and has six members. The office is the center of company-wide strategy and business-plan creation and execution support, and the role is a path toward future office head.
Work includes aggregating monthly income and expenditure in a management accounting format and analyzing budget variance with business divisions, then reporting to stakeholders; supporting medium- to long-term business strategy and plans and reviewing progress regularly; running the secretariat of management meetings, preparing materials and minutes; supporting new-business launch projects by analyzing and drafting business models and workflows and supporting partner collaboration; and research and materials for special management issues.
No formal qualification list is given. The role calls for numerical reporting and planning skills and close work with executives, divisions and outside stakeholders such as publishers.
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