# Business Development Director

**Company**: BlackRock
**Location**: Tokyo
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

The Aladdin Business Development team at BlackRock drives new client relationships, develops innovative business models, and delivers technology and investment management solutions. You will play a key role in growing the Aladdin business in Japan, working with large financial institutions to transform their investment and operating models through Aladdin and eFront solutions.

Your responsibilities:

- Develop a deep understanding of prospective clients' business models and strategic priorities to identify opportunities and deliver compelling value propositions.

- Build executive-level relationships, lead consultative sales engagements, and qualify opportunities throughout the sales lifecycle.

- Develop and maintain holistic account plans and advance strategic opportunities with targeted prospective clients.

- Engage with portfolio managers, traders, risk managers, and senior executives to understand requirements and drive successful outcomes.

- Coordinate cross-functional resources and subject matter experts to support client engagements and solution development initiatives.

- Monitor market trends, competitive developments, and client needs to inform business strategy and strengthen market positioning.

- Partner with product, legal, and contract management teams to support solution development and facilitate timely deal execution.

Your Experience:

- Demonstrated client-facing/sales expertise across investment management, capital markets, and alternative investments.

- Proven ability to assess complex client requirements and develop solutions.

- Experience selling investment, analytics, risk management, or technology-based solutions to financial institutions is highly valued.

- Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly and effectively.

- Business-level fluency in both Japanese and English.

Our benefits:

- Strong retirement plan

- Tuition reimbursement

- Comprehensive healthcare

- Support for working parents

- Flexible Time Off (FTO)

Our hybrid work model:

- Employees are required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week.

## Skills

### Required
- investment management
- capital markets
- alternative investments
- consultative selling
- market expertise
- commercial leadership
- Japanese
- English

### Nice to have
- Aladdin
- eFront

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