Lead M&A strategy and the M&A team for a listed AI startup, covering sourcing, due diligence, PMI, group-company management, disclosure, and JV or subsidiary governance.
About this role
This role leads incubation and business development initiatives that help JDSC enter new business areas. The position primarily supports customers in government, pharmaceuticals, real estate, and education, developing new businesses through joint research and development activities that generate revenue from customers.
The manager identifies or anticipates customer challenges, develops hypotheses for data-based solutions, proposes those solutions, and supports their execution. Working with data scientists and engineers, the role advances digital transformation of customer operations and organizations, whether or not AI is introduced. The role also combines customer-owned data with JDSC technology to develop new data-driven businesses.
Projects are launched with small teams of two to three experts from relevant fields. While delivering the project, the team is expanded to approximately ten members. The manager leads three or more projects concurrently and is responsible for leading incubation activities that allow JDSC to acquire new business domains.
The work involves collaboration across business, data science, and engineering functions to support customer transformation from end to end. The posting states that the role provides exposure to knowledge from the University of Tokyo and advanced technologies. The work location is in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. The position is full-time.
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