Job Description:

Business Overview

Rakuten Group provides more than 70 services in a wide range of fields, including e-commerce, travel, digital content, and other Internet services in Japan and overseas, as well as financial services such as credit cards, banking, securities, electronic money, and smartphone app payments, mobile services such as mobile carrier services, and professional sports. By organically linking these services through a membership system centered on Rakuten members, Rakuten has created a unique “Rakuten ecosystem” that is unlike any other.

*Our Businesses Key Figures
https://global.rakuten.com/corp/careers/services/

Department Overview

The Global Talent Acquisition Department is responsible for recruiting a wide range of talent to meet the needs of various business divisions, from engineers to business professionals in sales, marketing, and corporate functions, as well as executive-level hires.
Rakuten is a truly global organization with employees from over 100 nationalities, actively recruiting top talent from around the world. As the competition for acquiring exceptional talent intensifies, we seek individuals who can proactively identify challenges and resolve them by engaging both internal and external stakeholders.

With English becoming our official language since 2010, we aim to recruit necessary talent not only from within Japan but also from a global perspective. In this environment, you will be able to gain work experience utilizing various recruitment channels.

Position:

Why We Hire

Our Vision
Our company is accelerating global expansion and business diversification, prioritizing talent as our most crucial asset. Through our recruitment efforts, we aim to build an ecosystem where diverse talents from around the world can shine and drive the group's growth.

Current Situation and Desired Talent
In addition to strengthening existing businesses, we are actively investing in new ventures utilizing AI, making it urgent to acquire talent with specialized skills and a global perspective. Recruitment demands are rapidly increasing, and our current structure finds it challenging to keep up with these diversifying and sophisticated requirements.
To overcome this period of transformation and lead the realization of our vision, we are looking for a Recruiter with strategic thinking and execution capabilities. We welcome candidates who can deeply understand business needs, build trust with diverse candidates, and improve recruitment processes based on data.
Would you like to contribute your passion and expertise in recruitment to our global growth and collectively build an organization where top talents can thrive?

Job Satisfaction
- Directly Drive Business Growth
Experience the dynamism of contributing to business growth and transformation by recruiting critical talent who will shape the future of Rakuten Group.
- Grow as a Recruitment Professional
In an intensifying talent acquisition race, you can hone your strategic skills and enhance your market value by leveraging diverse recruitment channels.

Attractiveness
- Appeal of Business and Organizational Phase
Rakuten Group is in a "transformative phase," actively investing in AI to drive new business creation and evolve existing operations. In this dynamic environment, you will be at the forefront of talent acquisition directly linked to business strategy, feeling the tangible impact of shaping the Group's future.

- Appeal of Autonomy and Organizational Culture
You will have significant autonomy from strategy formulation to execution, allowing your ideas and leadership to flourish. It's a stimulating culture where you can constantly challenge new value creation in a flat, open, and multinational environment.

- Career Steps
You will deepen your expertise as a recruitment professional in areas such as business strategy-driven recruitment planning, sourcing high-level talent, data analysis, global communication, and project management. This opens up broad career paths in HR strategy, HRBP, and other human resources fields in the future.

- Differentiation from Competitors
Rakuten Group's overwhelming brand power and diversified business operations allow you to engage in recruiting specialized talent across a wide range of fields. You can lead large-scale, strategic recruitment projects by leveraging the Group's abundant resources (know-how, technology, network). Working in a truly global environment with diverse talent from approximately 100 countries/regions, you can deepen your cross-cultural understanding and enhance your global market value.

Position Details

To accelerate the growth of Rakuten Group, this position leads the entire End-to-End recruitment process for executives and high-class talent, from strategy development and execution to post-hire onboarding. This will also involve establishing relationships with global top 20 B schools (MBA), and managing end to end recruitment activities for senior leadership positions. This position carries a highly critical mission to collectively build the future of Rakuten Group.

Specific Responsibilities
- Collaborate with leadership to formulate and execute recruitment strategies and channel strategies for executive and high-class talent.
- Build and direct relationships with recruitment agencies.
- Manage the recruiting process and reporting.
- Establish and maintain relationships with global top 20 B schools (MBA).
- Develop and execute recruitment strategies specifically for MBA candidates.
- Manage MBA summer internship and full time hiring Activities.

Work Environment

Organization Structure
The team comprises members from their late 20s to 40s, possessing diverse backgrounds. With many foreign national members, communication within the team is conducted in both Japanese and English.

Existing Employee Backgrounds
Characteristics of Successful Mid-Career Hires (Industry/Occupation)
Mid-career hires who thrive in our department come from diverse backgrounds. Primarily, they include recruitment specialists from the IT/Web industry (some of whom are former engineers themselves), consultants from the recruitment agency industry, HR/HRBP professionals from other companies, and individuals with recruitment experience at global companies. They all possess high levels of specialization, strategic thinking, adaptability to change, a global mindset, and strong communication skills.

At Rakuten Group, mid-career hires are able to pursue a variety of career paths.

Mandatory Qualifications:

Job type/Experience
Minimum of 5 years of experience in executive and high-class talent acquisition at a corporate company or a headhunting firm.

Skills
- Communication Skills: High-level communication skills to build smooth relationships and collaborate effectively with diverse internal and external stakeholders.
- Project Management Experience: Proven experience in rallying support and successfully leading projects.
- Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to identify complex problems, logically formulate, and execute solutions.
- Negotiation Skills: Ability to successfully negotiate with candidates, recruitment agencies, and internal stakeholders.
- PC Skills: Business-level proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.

Language Proficiency
- Japanese: Business level or higher (Native level preferred).
- English: TOEIC score of 800 or higher, or equivalent English proficiency from at least 5 years of practical experience (Business level or higher).

Required Submissions
- Submit a resume in both Japanese and English.

Desired Qualifications:

Job type/Experience
- Practical knowledge and experience in IT industry
- Experience in a wide range of HR operations beyond recruitment (e.g., HR planning, system design, organizational development).

Skills/Experience
- Global Recruitment Experience: Experience in recruiting top talent based overseas, or experience working in a multinational recruitment team.
- Direct Sourcing/Recruiting: Full-cycle experience from candidate sourcing to closing.
- Data-Driven Recruitment: Experience in reviewing and improving recruitment processes using data.

Other Information:

Additional information on Location

Rakuten Crimson House
1-14-1 Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo

*When applying for this position, you must submit both a Japanese and an English resume.

Related Pages
- Employee Benefits: https://global.rakuten.com/corp/careers/benefit/

- Employee Conditions: https://global.rakuten.com/corp/careers/information/

- Culture: https://global.rakuten.com/corp/careers/culture/

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Languages:

English (Overall - 3 - Advanced), Japanese (Overall - 4 - Fluent)

Executive/MBA Recruiter - Global Talent Acquisition Department, Group Human Resources Supervisory Department (GHRD)