Job Description:

Business Overview

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

Its key strength lies in offering comprehensive solutions across all aspects of marketing-from upstream strategy planning to downstream execution such as advertising operations, performance measurement, and data analysis.

Marketing-related businesses include a wide range of marketing businesses, such as "Rakuten Marketing Platform / LinkShare," which provides solutions for all digital marketing; "Rakuten Data Marketing," which provides marketing solutions utilizing Rakuten's owned big data; and "Rakuten Insight," which provides marketing research services.

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

Department Overview

"Procurement” is the process of selecting suppliers, purchasing, inspecting, and paying for all goods and services necessary for business operations.
The Procurement & Debt Management Section was newly established in January 2026 within the Ad & Media Company (A&M).
In response to revisions to Rakuten Group-wide procurement regulations and the resulting need to strengthen management and control/check frameworks, this section was formed to consolidate procurement management operations within A&M. The department will design, standardize, and execute A&M’s procurement operations, while also evaluating the introduction of a procurement management system.
By building a robust procurement process, we will contribute to enhancing the credibility and trust of A&M and Rakuten among business partners and society.

Position:

Why We Hire

We are seeking a proactive team member to manage procurement operations for our A&M business units.

Even if you are new to the field of procurement, we welcome candidates who can apply their professional experience to help us implement our new operational framework. In this role, you will play an active part in improving our processes, and we highly value your ideas and suggestions to help us grow.

Attraction
1. A&M is driving the growth of Rakuten’s advertising business as the Group’s fourth pillar.
You will have the opportunity to contribute to business growth in a new and challenging domain.

2. Realize a new career path, even without prior experience.
Even if you are new to the procurement field, you can leverage your existing experience to execute and manage our new operational workflows.

Position Details

As a member of the team, you will be responsible for executing and establishing the newly designed procurement management operations within the company. Your role will go beyond simple operational execution; you will proactively participate in improvement activities aimed at business integration across divisions and the implementation of new systems.
Our department works in collaboration with senior managers from each business division and individual company-who are also the stakeholders from the previous process-to realize these new operational workflows.

- We are currently designing the fundamental processes in coordination with relevant procurement operation departments within Rakuten. Even if you do not have prior experience in procurement, you will be working in an environment where you can build new business processes by collaborating with these teams.

- As we are in the initial phase of building this team from the ground up, you will join us as a founding member.

Work Environment

Organizational Structure
- Team Size: The team currently consists of one Vice Manager, two Senior Managers (in concurrent roles), and five concurrent members. We plan to hire approximately one additional person for this role. You will work in collaboration with external partners (contractors) to achieve team goals.
- Age Range: 20s to 40s
- New Graduate/Mid-career Ratio: 100% mid-career hires.

Background of Mid-career Hires
Our management team includes members from diverse backgrounds, such as sales in the manufacturing industry, who have further developed their expertise in management and accounting through business school or similar programs. They are applying their cross-industry experience to take on the challenge of building new operational frameworks. We provide an environment where you can thrive even without prior procurement experience, provided you have a logical mindset and a strong drive for continuous improvement.

Mandatory Qualifications:

- At least 2 years of professional experience in back-office or operations roles where accuracy is critical.
- Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with internal departments and external partners to drive projects forward.
- A proactive mindset, with a constant focus on identifying challenges and a strong drive to resolve or improve them.
- PC Skills: Proficiency in Excel (data aggregation and analysis using VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, etc.) and PowerPoint (presentation creation).

Desired Qualifications:

- Strong communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.
- Knowledge of procurement, purchasing, or accounting.
- Experience in business process improvement (internal or external).
- Experience in building business workflows or implementing new systems.

Other Information:

Additional information on Location

Futakotamagawa Rise Office
Futako Tamagawa Rise 13F
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.
Proof of qualifications will be required by the time of the job offer.
If no evidence is available to prove the qualifications denoted above, taking an IP test, organized by Rakuten, during selection process is required.

Rakuten Group, Inc. Homepage Link
- Benefits:https://corp.rakuten.co.jp/careers/benefit/
- Recruitment Information:https://corp.rakuten.co.jp/careers/information/ * Employment type is detailed
- Rakuten Culture:https://corp.rakuten.co.jp/careers/culture/

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Advertising Space Procurement Operations Staff (No experience required)- Business Planning Department, Marketing Solutions Business(A&M)