Uses publisher and bookstore logistics and sales data to develop book-demand forecasts, recommendations, and inventory and delivery optimization. The role spans generative-AI data enrichment through model deployment and operation in products.
About this role
PubteX, formed in March 2022 by the Marubeni group and the publishers Kodansha, Shogakukan and Shueisha to make Japan's publishing distribution sustainable through digital transformation, is hiring a player-manager Project Manager (section chief candidate) for its AI Supply Chain Solutions division. The division stores the data it needs in the cloud and uses AI to analyze it and provide recommended values.
In the engineering team the project manager works with vendors across system planning, implementation and operation. Duties are system planning and leading proofs of concept, system implementation, and project management covering budget, progress, issues and quality, all in collaboration with vendors. The position involves reform across publishers, distributors and bookstores, from the upstream to the downstream of the supply chain.
No formal qualification list is given. The role suits people who want hands-on business work rather than desk-based verification and who can coordinate many stakeholders.
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