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This role provides presales support for submarine cable systems for major telecom carriers and over-the-top service providers, mainly overseas customers. The business supports international communications across the Asia-Pacific, North and South America, Indian Ocean, and European regions.
Daily work includes researching demand from potential customers before bids are announced and proposing technical specifications. After a bid is announced, the role reviews customer requirements, develops network and system designs, selects proposed equipment, prepares technical and bid documents, and handles clarification requests. Customer-facing work includes proposal presentations and responding to questions. After an order is secured, the successful proposal is handed over to the project execution team.
For chief-level positions, the requirements are conversational English and experience designing or developing optical communications-related systems. For section-manager and department-manager-level positions, the requirements include negotiating technical specifications with overseas customers, preparing bid documents from technical requirements, delivering presentations and answering questions, business-level English, and experience designing or developing optical communications-related systems. No educational requirement is stated.
The role is part of a presales organization serving customers in the submarine cable systems business. Optical submarine cable projects may involve cable installation over thousands of kilometers, take two to three years to complete, and sometimes have a value of several tens of billions of yen. The posting states that both management and specialist career paths are available, including deeper presales specialization or broader careers in sales and technology.
The position is planned as a regular full-time employee at a level from chief to department manager and is located at the company headquarters in Minato, Tokyo. Annual compensation is approximately JPY 6.8–9.9 million for chief-level roles, JPY 9.3–11 million for section-manager roles, and JPY 10–14 million for department-manager roles. Monthly salary ranges are also stated by level, with the prior salary taken into consideration and subject to company rules. Duties may change within company-designated duties, and the work location may change to company-designated locations, including a telework location where applicable.
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