Category Manager/Senior Manager (Multi-Vertical), TikTok Shop - Japan

The e-commerce industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years and has become a hotly contested space amongst leading Internet companies, and its future growth cannot be underestimated. With millions of loyal users globally, we believe TikTok is an ideal platform to deliver a brand new and better e-commerce experience to our users. We are looking for passionate and talented people to join our product and operations team, together we can build an e-commerce ecosystem that is innovative, secure, and intuitive for our users. Join us as we drive the future of e-commerce here at TikTok.

Responsibilities:

• Defining the long-term strategy, leading key initiatives, and setting the future direction of partners
• Responsible for the P&L of Multi industry (FMCG, 3C, Home&Living, etc.)
• Providing certain industry knowledge and leveraging your network to ensure success in the category
• Map the category and subcategories landscape, and define priority on which segment to be developed in collaboration with partners
• Acquiring partners by actively identifying, prioritizing, and onboarding to the platform
• Developing partners by driving and managing end-to-end partnerships, planning, executing, and maintaining category performance, including but not limited to business model suggestions, creator affiliation, partner education
• Collaborate cross-functionally to unlock partners' potential on the platform, drive brand growth, and adopt livestream and short videos
• Navigating through ambiguity, adapting to frequent changes, and influencing key stakeholders to drive decisions for the category
• Decomposing complex problems, devising new approaches, and creating scalable solutions
• Own internal projects to contribute to the industrial ecosystem as a whole (including campaigns, product launches, B2B marketing)

Minimum Qualifications:

• Growth-orientated mindset, self-starter with strong communication skills, logical thinking, analytical skills, who can manage strategic partner relationships
• Customer service orientation and experience working in a client-facing capacity
• Strong track record in leading business projects and delivering against stretching performance goals
• Experience with a commerce platform/marketplace
• Strong understanding of social commerce, content marketing, and influencers
• Good written and oral proficiency in Japanese, medium written and read proficiency in English is required in a global working environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of the Japanese industry landscape, consumer demands, digital evolution, and mobile transformation
• Extensive experience in one industry/category management is preferred
• 3 to 5 years of experience in managing diverse teams or KA accounts is preferred
• Collaborative and open to changes and challenges and learn