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Alliance Partnership Specialist - Platform Connection Group, Strategy Sales Department, Travel & Mobility Business (C&M)

Rakuten global.rakuten.com Open · verified Sep 25, 2026
Tokyo Full-time Mid-level Channel & Partnerships

At a glance

Mid-level Channel & Partnerships role at Rakuten. Tokyo · full-time.

Pay not stated

RoleChannel & Partnerships
SeniorityMid-level
LocationTokyo
EmploymentFull-time
PostedSep 14, 2026 · 11d ago
Role brief

Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

  • Build key-account alliances and relationship programs that create new sales opportunities
  • Recruit, develop, and manage strategic partners while moving opportunities through the pipeline
  • Promote company products alongside alliance recruitment and work toward shared partnership goals
  • Review alliance trends, financial projections, and marketplace sales impact for management
  • Protect account ownership by tracking competitor activity and responding with targeted strategies

What you bring

  • A bachelor’s degree plus at least two years of related experience, or an advanced degree without experience
  • Professional judgment to handle varied problems using established procedures, policies, and analytical methods

Who this fits

You’ll suit an individual-contributor role centered on alliance development, account retention, pipeline growth, and partner satisfaction. The work involves internal and external collaboration, moderate-scope analysis, and limited day-to-day instruction. This position is based in Tokyo, Japan.

From the employer

Job Description:

Identifies and develops key account alliances and relationship programs designed to produce sales opportunities. Recruits, develops and manages strategic partner alliances/partnerships and opportunity pipelines and ensures the retention, growth and customer satisfaction of accounts. Evangelizes company products in conjunction with recruiting key alliances/partnerships. Evaluates program trends and provides analysis and recommendations to management. Works toward mutual goals, strategies, and objectives to build awareness and support of overall strategic benefits of the alliance. Provides for financial analyses, long-range forecasting and analysis studies associated with potential alliances/partnerships. Monitors programs to assess the sales impact of the solution(s) in the marketplace and the overall success of the alliance. Monitors competitor activity in accounts and implements strategies to maintain account ownership and block competitor advancement. Identifies and develops key account alliances and relationship programs designed to produce sales opportunities. This is an individual contributor level role.

  • Collaboration & Interaction: Builds productive internal/external working relationships to resolve mutual problems by collaborating on procedures or transactions. Focuses on providing standard professional advice and creating initial reports/analyzes for review by experienced team professionals.

  • Complexity & Problem Solving: Works on problems of moderate scope which are often varied and routine where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors. Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action. Applies learned techniques and contributes to analysis and investigation to solve problems. Normally receives little instruction on day-to-day work, general instructions on new assignments

  • Knowledge & Application: Develops professional expertise, applies company policies and procedures to resolve a variety of issues. Determines a course of action based on guidelines and modifies processes and methods as required.

  • Typical Degree & Years of Experience: Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or an advanced degree without experience; or equivalent work experience.

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