# Vice President in Japan Wealth Wholesale **Company**: BlackRock **Location**: Tokyo **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Finance **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635 **Apply**: https://blackrock.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/BlackRock_Professional/job/Tokyo-Japan/Japan-Wealth--Wholesale---Vice-President_R266834?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/vice-president-in-japan-wealth-wholesale-03291ff7-151/ ## Description The Japan Wealth team at BlackRock serves a broad range of intermediary clients, including securities firms, banks, and other wealth distribution partners, providing investment solutions and services across asset classes. As a Vice President in Japan Wealth Wholesale, you will be responsible for translating distributor-level strategy into effective execution across branch networks. You will build sustained engagement with frontline sales professionals through investment seminars, training, field sales activities, and ongoing branch interaction. The role combines investment knowledge, commercial execution, and relationship skills. You will work closely with Relationship Managers to understand each distributor’s priorities and identify where BlackRock can add value, then translate those priorities into practical initiatives that increase engagement and support product adoption at the branch level. You will also act as an important connection between the market and BlackRock, bringing feedback from distributor branches into the organization while drawing on BlackRock’s investment, product, and regional capabilities to deliver relevant insights and solutions to Japan’s wealth market. **Responsibilities:** - Develop and execute branch-level initiatives to increase the penetration and adoption of BlackRock’s investment products across distributor networks, building sustained engagement through regular interaction and follow-up with sales professionals. - Plan and deliver investment seminars, study sessions, workshops, and product training that strengthen the investment knowledge and effectiveness of distributor sales professionals. - Translate BlackRock’s investment views, market insights, and product capabilities into clear, practical messages that distributor sales professionals can use in conversations with end investors. - Support distributor sales activities through joint visits, client seminars, and other field-level initiatives that help sales professionals engage end investors and develop business opportunities. - Partner closely with Relationship Managers to translate distributor priorities and product opportunities into effective branch-level execution, using feedback from frontline sales professionals to identify opportunities and refine commercial initiatives. - Partner with investment, product, marketing, legal, and compliance teams to develop and deliver effective sales content, investment education, and branch engagement initiatives. - Leverage BlackRock’s global and Asia-Pacific resources to bring relevant investment insights, market perspectives, and capabilities to distributor sales networks in Japan. **Experience:** - Typically 7–10 years of relevant professional experience, preferably in asset management, securities, banking, wealth management, or financial services. - Strong wholesale client engagement and relationship-management skills, with demonstrated ability to build credibility with distributor sales professionals and other wealth-management stakeholders, identify and develop business opportunities, and execute against commercial objectives. - Strong understanding of investment products, financial markets, and Japan’s wealth-management and intermediary distribution landscape. - Strong Japanese communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, together with business-level English and the ability to collaborate effectively with regional and global colleagues. - Highly collaborative, with demonstrated ability to work effectively across relationship management, investment, product, marketing, legal, and compliance teams. - Bachelor’s degree and any relevant securities qualifications or professional registrations required for the role, as applicable. - Flexibility and willingness to travel within Japan as needed to engage distributor branches, sales professionals, and clients. **Benefits:** BlackRock offers a wide range of benefits, including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents, and Flexible Time Off (FTO). **Hybrid Work Model:** BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of employees, while supporting flexibility. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - investment products - financial markets - wealth management - relationship management - communication - presentation - interpersonal skills - Japanese - English --- Source: [Apply at blackrock.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://blackrock.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/BlackRock_Professional/job/Tokyo-Japan/Japan-Wealth--Wholesale---Vice-President_R266834?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)