Account Planner

This position is based in Tokyo, Japan.

The area: Large Customer Sales

The regional Large Customer Sales (LCS) teams partner closely with our major advertising clients and agencies to develop digital solutions that build our clients' businesses and brands. We are in a unique and exciting position to shape how marketing and business is conducted in the digital age. We generate revenue from across Google's broad range of solutions, from Google AdWords, to YouTube, to Mobile, that help our customers connect instantly and seamlessly with their audiences and get the most out of the web.

The role: Account Planner

Reach for new revenue-generating heights as a Sales Googler. Businesses that partner with Google come in all shapes, sizes and market caps, and no one Google advertising solution works for all. Your knowledge of online media combined with your communication skills and analytical abilities shapes how new and existing business grow. You leverage your entrepreneurial drive to target, educate and persuade new customers to embrace Google's latest advertising products and technologies. Using your influencing and relationship-building skills, you provide Google-caliber client service, research and market analysis. You anticipate how decisions are made, understand the details of individual campaigns and persistently explore and uncover the business needs of your key clients. Working with them, you set the vision and the strategy for how their advertising can reach thousands of users.

As an Account Planner, you will work primarily with large clients and agencies. You will take a research - oriented yet creative position that requires a sharp, analytical mind and an entrepreneurial spirit. Armed with deep knowledge of Google’s products, marketing trends and individual client needs, you will brainstorm, develop and refine compelling, customized marketing plans and then deliver them to the Sales team in advance of client-facing meetings. Your primary goal as Account Planner is to capture a given target audience with innovative Google tools and refine how we position our products in an integrated way to achieve our Sales team's objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Develop smart, integrated, research-based proposals and presentations to enhance Google's reputation with clients as a consultant and partner.
• Use comprehensive knowledge of Google's products to align them with the client's marketing objectives.
• Acquire and share deep knowledge of the industry/vertical, its competitive landscape, client products, and key business issues that affect the client and industry.
• Develop new marketing collateral using industry, marketing, and third-party research.
• Organize and host local and regional client appreciation events and strategic summits.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree (In lieu of degree, 5 years relevant work experience).
• 4 years of work experience in sales support and market research.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in areas such as online advertising and/or communication planning.
• Strong project management, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Detail-oriented, strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills to quickly complete a large volume of high quality work.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, constantly evolving team environment.
• Advanced level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Fluency in Japanese and English.