Strategy Planning & Business Development Lead (Insurance & Finance)

SoftBank

Fintech

Biz Dev

Strategy

About this role

This lead role sits within the Next Generation Strategy Division, which develops new businesses addressing structural challenges in Japan’s insurance and financial-services industries. The work focuses on creating business opportunities that combine group assets with next-generation digital capabilities.

The role identifies industry problems, redefines total addressable markets, develops hypotheses and business plans, designs proofs of concept, and drives them toward commercialization. It also prepares execution plans and coordinates handovers to business units or group companies, while designing co-creation proposals and negotiating partnerships with major insurers, financial institutions, and government agencies. The named technology assets include AI, networks, cloud, user touchpoints, and data. Applicants must have experience in new-business development covering market research, hypothesis creation and validation, business-plan development, system and operations design, investment approval, external negotiation, service implementation, and post-launch improvement.

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