Corporate Planning Manager

The primary responsibility of this role is to support the Chief Strategy Officer(CSO) with respect to the Corporate’s strategic plan. The successful candidate will work alongside other C-Suite members, including reporting to its parent company in Japan.

This role is responsible to:

• Support corporate planning activities, strategic planning processes, performance reporting and ad-hoc projects undertaken by the department.
• Prepares the supporting documentation for any corporate changes globally in the company, its subsidiaries, and affiliates, such as liquidations and mergers, new investment or divestiture.
• Prepare responses in Japanese to requests for information from the parent company in Japan.
• Assist the CSO in monitoring the execution of the strategic plan through communication with Corporate management, Division management as well as the Parent Company in Japan.
• Analyze the performance of the company’s capital projects globally.
• Assist in the preparation of the company’s budget and corporate presentations.
• Prepare Senior Management Meeting minutes and presentations.

Required skills/Qualifications:

• Possesses at least 8 years of food and agricultural industry experience in a Japanese MNC.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in business Japanese (JLPT N1 certification or native Japanese speaker) to communicate with Japan HQ and auditors.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English is required to communicate with company operations.
• Business-level proficiency in Korean would be a plus.
• Minimum level of education needed is a Bachelor’s degree.
• Extremely strong analytical skills, intuitive, optimistic, and able to lead and motivate people.
• Possess ability to manage multiple projects/tasks of varying complexities through effective time management.
• Ability to work with a variety of different businesses and local cultures will be integral to succeed in this role.
• Proven ability to cope with stressful deadlines, understand new issues quickly and make wise decisions.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with various department heads across different entities and countries.