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 is a global Internet and e-commerce company with over 1.3 billion registered users worldwide. Our e-commerce platform is the largest of its kind in Japan and among the world's largest by sales. Rakuten has many subsidiaries as well, including well-known brands like Rakuten VIKI, Rakuten Symphony, Rakuten TV, Kobo (e-Reading), and Viber (messaging). For more information, visit http://global.rakuten.com/corp/about/.
The incumbent will be managing a range of internet advertising products used mainly by Rakuten Ichiba's merchants. You will be responsible for planning, development and operations of our online advertising products and systems, thereby taking the lead to achieve our goals and improvement of the product. At the same time, you will also manage the internal organization or external agencies (or vendors) to reach our product's goals.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the profit and loss of the product.
- Facilitate ad product improvement by working together with our engineering team in Singapore and business team in Japan to design roadmaps and release plans to improve its performance.
- Make key decisions regarding ad product requirements.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for salespersons, agencies and vendors.
- Manage contract and daily operation flow with agencies and vendors.
- Lead improvement activities in team operations.
- Conduct data analysis to clarify issues and identify improvement points.
- Manage tasks and schedules considering business situations.
- Develop strategies for ad product improvement & expansion to achieve targeted KPIs.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- Minimum 3 years of project or product management experience.
- Proficiency in Japanese (business level) for frequent communication with Japanese counterparts.
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint for delivering 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 is highly beneficial.
- Ability to effectively multi-task across projects.
- Excellent communication skills and conflict management skills.
- Precision in detailed work such as report creation and data analysis.
- High commitment to achieving team goals.
Rakuten is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications regardless of sex, marital status, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief or age.
