Situated in the heart of Singapore's Central Business District, Rakuten Asia Pte. Ltd. is Rakuten's Asia Regional headquarters. Established in August 2012 as part of Rakuten's global expansion strategy, Rakuten Asia comprises various businesses that provide essential value-added services to Rakuten's global ecosystem. Through advertisement product development, product strategy, and data management, among others, Rakuten Asia is strengthening Rakuten Group's core competencies to take the lead in an increasingly digitalized world.
Rakuten Group, Inc. is a global leader in internet services that empower individuals, communities, businesses, and society. Founded in Tokyo in 1997 as an online marketplace, Rakuten has expanded to offer services in e-commerce, fintech, digital content, and communications to approximately 1.7 billion members around the world. The Rakuten Group has nearly 32,000 employees and operations in 30 countries and regions. For more information visit https://global.rakuten.com/corp/
Responsibilities:
- Drive the development of product definition and solution plans to optimize the company’s products and services portfolio.
- Apply broad knowledge of company’s product/service capabilities and competitive environment to identify new growth areas, new technology and emerging product/service opportunities.
- Oversee the analysis and evaluation of key market statistics and customer requirements to define product strategies and identify product opportunities to expand market share.
- Evaluate in-depth market analysis and leads business case for optimization of existing products/solutions alternatives and/or to create the next generation of new products.
- Collaborate with research and development to create products and validate early product definitions.
- Select, develop and evaluate personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- Must have at least 5 years of project or product management experience.
- Must-have language requirements: Japanese (Native level) as you will be required to communicate frequently with our Japanese counterparts, and English (Business level).
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint skills required to deliver presentations to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of the Advertising & Media Industry, Travel Internet Industry (agency side, media side, OTA etc.) or Coupon Platforms, eCommerce and IT service services will be highly beneficial.
- Capable of multi-tasking projects effectively.
- Excellent communication skills and conflict management skills.
- Capable of performing detailed work precisely like report creation and data analysis.
- High commitment to achieve the team's goal.
