JOB ID 26872

Market Research Business Development Account Manager

  • Consulting & Professional Services, Research
  • Sales, Business Development & Strategy, Account Manager (B2B)
  • Tokyo
  • ¥4,800,000~¥7,100,000

This global market research firm specializes in providing comprehensive data, analysis, and insights across various industries and consumer markets. Their reports help businesses understand market trends, competitive landscapes, and consumer behavior to support strategic decision-making. serve a wide range of clients, including corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies, delivering tailored research solutions to drive growth and innovation worldwide. They serve a wide range of clients, including corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies, delivering tailored research solutions to drive growth and innovation worldwide.

This position is designed to retain, strengthen, and expand relationships with existing clients in the consumer products and retail sectors, with the objective of driving renewals and increasing revenue. You will be responsible for managing a portfolio of key accounts, understanding each client's business needs, and promoting market intelligence solutions and value-added services to support their strategic decision-making.

As an Account Manager, you will need strong client-facing experience and the ability to develop long-term relationships while identifying opportunities to expand account value. You will play a key role in securing contract renewals, growing existing business through upselling and consulting services, and collaborating with internal teams to deliver tailored solutions that support client success.

In this position, you will maintain, strengthen, and expand relationships with existing customers in the consumer goods and retail industries, aiming to secure contract renewals and increase sales. You will manage accounts for your clients, deeply understand each client's business needs, and propose market research and analysis solutions as well as value-added services to support your strategic decision-making.

As an account manager, you are expected to excel in customer service and build long-term trust. You will also play a crucial role in identifying opportunities to enhance the value of existing accounts, enabling contract renewals, expanding sales through upselling and consulting services, and collaborating with relevant internal departments to deliver optimal solutions that drive your success.

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Job Description

  • Responsibilities
    Account Manager will be mainly managing existing subscribers of Japanese leading players in FMCG industries. With the assigned accounts, you are expected to:

    - Secure contract renewal and grow revenues for each client
    - Develop client relationships
    - Understand company organization, strategy and priorities and grow network of users, grow usage, successfully convey benefits of product and company methodology, establish product as must-have, develop partnership style relationship
    - Train users face-to-face or via online demos
    - Provide expert research support to all clients, through detailed understanding of Euromonitor's product portfolio and research methodology
    - Encourage information sharing to improve quality of data
    - Collaborate with colleagues from research and other offices, and leverage research and industry expertise on queries, presentations, updates develop product offering to meet the changing needs of our client base share key selling points with counterparts for targeted upsell

    As an account manager, you will be responsible for existing customers, mainly from Japan's leading consumer goods manufacturers. The main duties are as follows.

    * Secure contract renewals with existing customers and drive
    sales growth * Build and strengthen
    long-term trust with customers * Understand customers' organizational structures, business strategies, and priorities, and deepen
    partnerships through user growth and service utilization * Conduct
    product training and demonstrations either in-person or online * Leveraging expertise in market research and analysis services and methodologies, we provide
    research support to customers* Contributing
    to improved data quality through collecting and providing feedback from customers* Collaborating with domestic and international research teams and related departments to facilitate customer inquiries, presentations, service improvements, and upselling opportunities
  • Requirements
    - At least 3 years of proven track record in achieving revenue goals with new business development and/or account management role, preferably (but not necessarily) in FMCG space
    - Knowledge of consumer market trends and dynamics
    - International perspective
    - Ability to conduct successful negotiations with senior management
    - Superb organizational skills with strong attention to detail
    - Goal-oriented, target-driven and able to work under pressure to produce results
    - Excellent presentation skills
    - Excellent oral and written communication skills
    - Business level or Native level Japanese and Intermediate English

    **Eligibility Requirements**

    * Over 3 years of experience in new business development sales or account management (experience in the FMCG industry is a plus)
    * Proven track
    record of achieving sales targets * Knowledge
    of trends and market trends in the consumer goods market * Possessing a global perspective and the ability to
    work in diverse environments * Communication skills
    to facilitate smooth negotiations and negotiations with management* High organizational skills and meticulous work execution
    ability * High goal ambition and ability to
    deliver results even under pressure * Excellent presentation skills
    * High Japanese communication skills (reading, writing, conversation)
    * Japanese: Business level ~ Native level, English: Intermediate level or above

  • Preferred
    · Experience working with the FMCG sector would be an advantage
    - Market research, consulting, account management and/or industry analyst experience is a plus
    - Business English is Preferable

    ** **Preferred**

    * Experience
    working in the FMCG (consumer packaged) industry * Experience in market research, consulting, account management, or as
    an industry analyst * Business-level English proficiency


  • Location
    Tokyo
  • Work Style
    Remote working possible, Flex working possible
  • Salary
    ¥4,800,000~¥7,100,000
  • Attractive
    Points
    No relocation, Over 50% Mid-Career Hires, Overseas communication, Foreign capital company, Make use of languages, Weekends and holidays off

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