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Assistant Business Manager (Japanese Speaker)

Provide business insight and reporting to key stakeholders, to both SEJ West Business Division and SEJ, including all aspects of the publishing portfolio.

Provide a direct contact with the Business Units (BU) in Square Enix, Japan, for all aspects of the business. Tracking the latest project status such as development milestones, release timings, marketing/PR activities and platform strategies.

Drive improvements through robust analysis of the business, along with available third party data/industry report, carry out trend analysis, competitor performances.

Key deliverable

• Work with Senior Business Manager to develop project forecast P&L for submissions to BU’s.
• Provide industry data/insights including NPD/GFK/Newzoo data to analyse competitor title’s performance to support multiple Square Enix West forecast scenarios.
• Frequent update, track and share the project status among the SEJ West Business Division, utilizing internal SharePoint library.
• Manage the monthly sales figures reporting to each individual BU’s.
• Work with the SEW/SEJ digital team to manage the sales promotions and price decay during the product life cycle. Obtaining approvals from SEJ.
• Manage the analysis of the digital promotion sales results and report to each BU’s project team, after the promo period.
• Manage the departmental overhead budgets and approvals, in conjunction with Finance.
• Ad hoc reporting and project work.

Desirable

• Understanding of the video games/digital business environment
• Have passion and excitement about video games

Requirements

• English & Japanese speaker
• Working experience at Japanese company
• At least 5 years working experience
• Good project management capability, highly organized and meticulous planning
• Advanced excel, modelling and data manipulation skills
• A logical, well organised approach, as well as commitment, flexibility and self-motivation
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong team player - able to work within an interdisciplinary team and international business
• Ability to deal with the tight deadlines and multiple re-workings
• Ability to deal effectively with multiple tasks simultaneously so as to meet all deadlines
• A strong desire to add value and show initiative
• Can travel abroad when needed

Key Stakeholder:

Executive Director, Brand and Marketing Directors, Product and Brand Manager at SEE/SEA, Project Managers & Producers, Finance teams at SEA/SEE, Commercial General Managers, Local marketing teams, Digital teams, SEJ BU’s stakeholders