This role focuses on business development in retail robotics, expanding partnerships with convenience stores in Japan.
About this role
This early-career specialist supports AI-robot production, export and procurement while improving the supply chain. The role works with domestic and overseas factories, suppliers, customs brokers and freight forwarders and uses data to improve cost, inventory and logistics.
Work covers sea, air and land routes; invoices, packing lists and HS codes; brokers and bonded options; inventory and replenishment; logistics KPIs; component plans, orders and delivery; supplier evaluation; quotations, negotiation, BOM cost reduction, contracts, and purchasing from prototype through production.
Candidates need one to five years in one of supply-chain management, procurement, logistics or trade. They must use Excel quantitatively with VLOOKUP, SUMIF and pivot tables and have native or JLPT N1-equivalent Japanese. The role also requires initiative in unfamiliar situations, data-based judgment, fast execution, and coordination across internal, external, domestic and international stakeholders.
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