# Head of Markets Strategy & Operations, Japan

**Company**: Spotify
**Location**: Tokyo
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Markets team at Spotify is responsible for managing the company's regions and their performance across all business-relevant metrics.

As Head of Market Strategy and Operations, you will be responsible for strategic direction based on business analysis and insights; business planning; regional operating processes; and managing cross-functional projects by building strong relationships across the company.

## What You'll Do

### Problem Solving and Strategic Projects:

- Collaborate with the Managing Director as a thought partner to chart regional strategy and initiatives.

- Evaluate and execute strategic market opportunities, identifying and recommending growth and differentiation strategies with an entrepreneurial mindset.

- Identify and solve operational problems on a tactical level with practical and creative approaches.

- Step in and execute alongside or in place of functions when needed.

### Business Planning:

- Work with the Managing Director, Japan, and functional leads to formulate local strategy in line with Spotify's overall global strategy.

- Own and adapt the regional planning process and framework.

- Ensure that the plan takes into account all necessary local and global functions and addresses both local challenges and global priorities.

### Business Reviews and Reporting:

- Track the performance of key market metrics.

- Own the process, framework, and output of market analysis and business reviews, tracking of regional budgets and initiatives as part of the business plan.

- Monitor and gather insight on competitor activities.

### Operating Processes:

- Drive operations for the region by building efficiency, removing obstacles, and improving processes.

- Provide functions with the insights and knowledge needed to drive decisions and define strategy.

- Ensure communication and alignment between all functions, including Music, Podcasts, Marketing, Growth, Finance, Ad Sales, PR, and HR.

- Communicate and align with global stakeholders, including but not limited to the Global functions in Markets & Subscriptions.

## Who You Are

- A minimum of 8-12+ years of work experience, including an early or growth-stage internet company and/or top-tier management consultancy, and experience working with an international team.

- Passionate and have a deep understanding of the technology and music spaces.

- Familiar with Japanese popular culture, the Japanese business landscape, and Japanese consumer behavior.

- Thought leader with proven results demonstrating business judgment.

- General business skills, equally comfortable analyzing data, coordinating internal projects, speaking to partners, or negotiating a deal.

- Organized, process-driven strategic thinker with an understanding of planning and budgeting.

- Analytical expert, developing and interpreting deep data analysis and presenting rigorous analysis and insights with simplicity, clarity, and confidence.

- Rapid and effective decision-making skills.

- Ability to learn new concepts, technologies, and businesses quickly and produce quality work in short time-frames.

- Outstanding communication skills:

- Speaking and presenting in front of groups, building concise and illustrative presentations.

- Writing succinct but detailed memos and briefs.

- Confident, friendly, supportive verbal manner and inquiry.

- Ability to manage internal stakeholders and align teams even with diverse levels of seniority and tenure.

- Genuine, confident, flexible, and fun attitude.

- Thrive in a constantly-changing but always-exciting environment!

- Bilingual in English and Japanese.

## Where You'll Be

- This role is based in Tokyo.

- Flexibility to work where you work best, with some in-person meetings.

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## Skills

### Required
- Strategic thinking
- Business planning
- Market analysis
- Project management
- Communication
- Leadership
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving
- Entrepreneurial mindset
- Japanese
- English

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