Senior Manager of Strategy & Planning (Program Management & Pricing)

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Job details

Company overview

Our client replaces or repairs customers' mobile phones or provides remote support on how to set up electronic devices.

Responsibilities

Main responsibilities:

• Management of the pricing process and stakeholder management
  • Coordinate the collection and validation of relevant information from across the organization, including peers in senior leaders in the finance, product, client services, marketing, and program management organization.
  • Synthesize analysis and present recommendations to senior management in an effective way to aid executives in making investment decisions
  • Develop and maintain strong cross functional partnerships with internal company functions to ensure organizational support of pricing decisions.
  • Adeptly manage internal conflicts
  • Be seen as a trusted business advisor by the leadership of the client and product teams
• Development of strategic pricing recommendations
  • Combine business logic, rigorous analysis, and strategic perspective to develop pricing recommendations.
  • Demonstrate mastery of our internal financial and operational data sources across all functions, and interpret this data correctly to drive financial projections
  • Exercise solid, logical business judgment in the development of assumptions to inform the costs, revenues, and other operational inputs for the pricing of new products or the application of existing products to new clients, channels, and offer environments.
  • Apply external market knowledge, internal and external client context and history as a key lens to inform pricing decisions.
• Management of program growth & risk analytics
  • Lead a small team of managers and analysts focused on forecasting & analyzing our growth and risk KPIs of our monthly subscription protection product
  • The role will require working with cross-functional team of Program Management, Finance, Supply Chain, Customer Care and Client Services to identify to improve accuracy of our forecasting and analysis, and to identify initiatives to improve profitability
  • Apply advanced analytic techniques to assess various drivers to underwriting profit and develop conclusive recommendations for improvements using complex variables from multiple resources
  • Partner with other team members to develop short- and long-term forecasts for the program
  • Partner with Accounting, Finance, Supply Chain, Customer Care, IT, and Client Services to gain support, resources and champions for initiatives aimed at improving captive profitability

Requirements

Minimum requirements;

• 8-10 years of business experience or three to five years of experience after the completion of graduate business school
• Business experience working in an analytic capacity in fields such as management consulting, risk management, marketing analytics, or financial analysis
• Excellent knowledge of MS Excel
• Ability to interact with senior management; strong communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to synthesize information into key messages appropriate for the audience
• Intellectual curiosity and interest in using data to drive decisions.
• Native Japanese required
• Bachelor's degree required

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA strongly preferred
• English proficiency desired

Salary

10 - 15 million yen

Location

Tokyo