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Medline

Makes and delivers medical supplies to hospitals

Strategy & Planning Specialist

Business OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTokyo, JapanHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience in corporate planning, business planning, sales planning, marketing planning, Commercial Excellence, FP&A, consulting, data analysis, or similar fields.
  • Approximately 2–4 years of related experience for the P2 level or at least 4 years for the P3 level.
  • Experience organizing and analyzing data with Excel, including formulas, pivot tables, and basic data analysis.
  • Experience creating management-facing materials with PowerPoint.
  • Experience coordinating with multiple departments and organizing and consolidating information.
  • Native-level Japanese proficiency.
  • Business-level English proficiency.
  • Logical thinking, numerical aptitude, and information-organization skills.
  • Communication skills to obtain necessary information from relevant departments.

Responsibilities

  • Collect performance, market, product, inventory, and supply data from Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, and other departments.
  • Organize basic data such as sales, gross profit, sales volume, product performance, forecasts, inventory, shortages, and supply status.
  • Confirm discrepancies in figures or assumptions across departments and organize the information clearly for the president.
  • Analyze basic factors affecting sales, gross profit, volume, price, mix, and inventory.
  • Organize variances between plan, forecast, and actual results and identify the main drivers of change.
  • Conduct simple analyses by product, department, customer, or region as needed.
  • Collect and organize market trends, competitor information, pricing trends, product trends, and customer and distributor information.
  • Combine internal data, external reports, distributor information, and input from Sales and Marketing to support market understanding.
  • Conduct basic analyses and prepare materials on market share and competitive positioning under the direction of senior staff.
  • Create and update PowerPoint materials for the president, Excel analysis tables, and management meeting materials.
  • Present figures and analysis so the president and management can understand them at a glance.
  • Prepare, translate, or summarize materials in Japanese and English as needed.
  • Support data collection and preparation of materials for AOP, forecasts, and monthly or quarterly business reviews.
  • Work with Finance and Commercial teams to organize planning, forecast, and actual-result assumptions and variances.
  • Organize post-meeting actions, discussion points, and unresolved matters, and support follow-up.
  • Coordinate with stakeholders in Finance, Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Operations, and other relevant departments.
  • Quickly collect necessary information from relevant departments in response to requests from the president.
  • Improve the speed of management decision-making by organizing and documenting cross-functional information.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in medical devices, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, or B2B business.
  • Understanding of work in Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, or Finance.
  • Experience with forecasting, AOP, business reviews, or KPI management.
  • Experience using Power BI, Tableau, or SQL.
  • Understanding of distributor, wholesale, or supply-chain-based businesses.

About the Company

Medline

Makes and delivers medical supplies to hospitals

Medline makes and distributes medical and surgical supplies for hospitals, surgery centers, nursing homes, physician offices and other care sites. It runs its own factories alongside a large network of warehouses and delivery routes, so one company can produce exam gloves, gowns and surgical kits and then deliver them straight to the bedside. Many health systems sign multi-year prime vendor agreements that make Medline the source for most of their medical-surgical supplies. It earns money selling its own products and those of other manufacturers, together with supply chain services. Medline was founded in 1966 and is based in Northfield, Illinois.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Northfield, IL
Founded
1966

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