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 lead-off member for its AI Supply Chain Solutions division to plan and promote a data platform that uses sales data across the publishing industry. The work is new-business development in data strategy, with a wide range of duties depending on the person's wishes and ability.
Duties include planning new services and business models on the data platform and promoting alliances with key industry players; consulting for publishing-industry customers and proposing technology-based solutions; coordinating data-sharing alliances with publishers and related companies; clarifying use cases such as demand forecasting, inventory optimization and marketing; passing requirements to engineers and data scientists; project management, including goal setting and facilitating customer meetings; and corporate sales from lead generation to closing.
No formal qualification list is given. The role suits someone who can combine business planning, alliance building and sales across a many-stakeholder industry of publishers, distributors and bookstores.
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