Corporate Planning & Strategy Senior Manager

Job Title: Corporate Planning & Strategy Senior Manager (permanent position)
Company Info: Multinational Insurance company
Work Location: Tokyo

Language Skills:
Japanese: Native level
English: Business level

This position is providing you an opportunity to work for a Japanese company with a global and innovative environment, belonging to World’s big insurance group.

Responsibility:
1. Defines high-impact, long-term (i.e., 2-5+ year horizon) business strategies at the corporate, business.
2. Partners with senior management to identify existing operational and new business opportunities.
3. Conducts rigorous, data-driven analyses to diagnose the current state and model future outcomes for business performance.
4. Develops recommendations for senior management based on competitive market, financial, statistical, and economic trend data.
5. Manages corporate strategy initiatives and participates in communicating the strategy to the client organization.

Key Accountabilities:
1. Drive company-level strategic growth planning; collaborate with executive and finance teams to develop tools and structure to enable flexible but effective quarterly, annual, and long-term strategic planning
2. Contribute to fast-paced and agile team participating in all aspects of corporate strategy including planning, documentation, execution, testing, and launch of projects.
3. Define company and division’s annual goals based on the annual budget and obtaining an internal approval after negotiation with relevant departments
4. Conduct facilitation, including coordination of related departments in new product sales strategy formulation
5. Develop analytical frameworks to identify, assess, and determine growth opportunities
6. Drive leadership-wide alignment and execution of high priority strategic initiatives and projects
7. Provides analytical point support on critical questions in the business.
8. Conduct an a-hoc analysis, such as profitability analysis on a specific product
9. Elaborate business case essential for a new product sales forecast through collaboration with related departments.

Required Skills:
1. Proven experience as a Strategic Planner or Business Consultant
2. Understanding of market research and data analysis
3. Knowledge of business operations and procedures
4. Final Education: University/College
5. MBA is welcome ※BSc/BA in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance or a related field; MSc/MA/MBA is a plus
6. Deep Non-life insurance industry experience (+3 years) (Welcome)
7. Insurance accounting experience (Welcome)
8. Report creation experience using BI tools (Welcome)