Job Description:

Business Overview

Ad & Media Company provides advertising and marketing services, including digital advertising, research, and influencer business.

Its appeal lies in its ability to offer end-to-end solutions for all aspects of marketing, from upstream strategy formulation to downstream execution such as ad operations, performance measurement, and data analysis.

Marketing-related businesses include "Rakuten Marketing / LinkShare," which provides general digital marketing solutions, "Rakuten Data Marketing," which offers marketing solutions utilizing Rakuten's big data, and "Rakuten Insight," which provides marketing research services, among other wide-ranging marketing businesses.

This environment allows you to place yourself in an organization that forms the core of Rakuten Group, leading to your personal growth and career advancement.

Department Overview

In an era characterized by the increasing diversification of lifestyles and values, the challenges in marketing research are becoming ever more sophisticated and complex. To address these shifts and derive deeper, more fundamental insights, our mission is to provide new value across the entire customer marketing process by leveraging over 100 million big data points connected by Rakuten Group's common ID through composite utilization.

Within the Rakuten Group, expectations are growing for new data businesses that capitalize on our unique and vast data assets. In December 2024, we executed an organizational restructuring, integrating Rakuten Insight, Inc., Rakuten Insight Global, Inc., and the Cho-Mini Job (Super Micro-Job) business. This move established a stronger synergy creation system for data utilization.

Under this new structure, we aim to further accelerate the application of AI technology. Our goal is to achieve automation and sophistication in data analysis, enable real-time insights, and enhance the quality of decision-making support. Through these efforts, we strive to create new value that innovates corporate marketing activities.

Ad & Media Solutions Section is a division that provides issue-solving marketing support to a diverse range of clients, primarily advertising agencies and media companies. We achieve this by leveraging marketing research, AI technology, and Rakuten's extensive data assets.
This department is composed of multiple specialized groups responsible for: product development that supports data-driven decision-making; designing and promoting services such as advertising effectiveness measurement and brand lift studies; building and operating data-related operations; and planning, proposing, and delivering marketing research both domestically and internationally. Working in close collaboration with these specialized groups, our Marketing Research Consultants (Sales) deeply understand clients' marketing challenges and jointly drive projects to provide optimal solutions.
This department offers the opportunity to be involved in proposing and solving complex and advanced challenges that go beyond traditional marketing research.

Position:

Why We Hire

Our company has positioned its overseas research business, which supports the global expansion of Japanese companies, as a new pillar of its growth strategy. To this end, we launched a specialized organization in April 2025.
We are seeking highly motivated individuals to join us as core members of this new organization, to jointly drive the growth of our overseas research business, and to help shape the future of Japanese companies.

Position Details

We are seeking members to contribute to the expansion of Rakuten Insight's overseas research business for Japanese companies. You will work in collaboration with sales teams to successfully lead clients overseas research projects.

Key Responsibilities
Sales & Operations Support:
- Collaborate with sales representatives to accurately understand client research needs and propose optimal overseas research plans (including creating estimates, schedules, and project proposals).
- Support the smooth progression of research operations after order acceptance (negotiating with internal and external operations teams).

Sales / Marketing Strategy Planning:
- Plan and execute sales strategies and promotional measures for sales growth.
- Propose strategies based on market trends and competitor analysis / Support new product development.

Collaboration with Overseas Partners:
- Communicate with overseas research partners and Rakuten Insight Global, Inc., manage progress, and control quality.
- Discover and develop new partners.

Work Environment

This position will be part of a 6-member global organization that includes foreign national employees. *As of August 2025

In the future, you will also have the opportunity to leverage the knowledge gained from overseas research for Japanese companies to challenge cross-border business expansion to international clients and to create new business opportunities in the global market.

Our team primarily consists of mid-career hires, bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds.
Both those with industry experience and members building new careers from unrelated fields are actively contributing and thriving here.

Mandatory Qualifications:

Required Skills and Experience
- Corporate sales experience (3 years or more)
- Excellent communication skills (able to explain in logical and organized sentences and speaking style. Able to understand human speech and the flow of discussions)
- Project management experience (project Experience of managing the progress of projects as a project manager, regardless of the size of the project)
- Basic PC skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint beginner to intermediate level)
- Basic business English skills (reading, writing, speaking)

Candidate Requirements
- Strong sense of ownership and ability to work with a sense of responsibility
- Able to see things through thoroughly to achieve goals.
- Able to have their own hypotheses and implement PDCA to improve sales activities
- Understand basic marketing frameworks (3C, 4P, STP, etc.)
- Actively learn new knowledge and skills and have a strong desire to grow
- Able to respond flexibly to change and act independently

Desired Qualifications:

- Business experience abroad (e.g., overseas assignment, study abroad, collaboration with international companies).
- Practical experience in market research or the marketing industry.

Others Information:

Additional information on Location

Futako Tamagawa Rise Office

2-21-1 Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo

Additional information on English Qualification

TOEIC Score exceeding 800 (or similar level of English ability) or a University Degree earned in an English-speaking country

If no evidence is available to prove the qualifications denoted above, taking an IP test, organized by Rakuten, during selection process is required.

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Overseas research business Sales promotion/business development for Japanese companies - Ad & Media Solutions Section, Data Solutions Department, Marketing Solutions Business