Title: Japanese speaking Event Manager 

Salary: up to £65K (depending on experience
Location: London
Work hour: Mon to Fri, 9:00 – 17:30 *this is a 5 days office based role.

 An international entertainment company is looking for Japanese speaking Event Manager.

Japanese speaking Event Manager - Main Responsibilities

• Leading the co-ordination and local execution of events, including real-world exhibition of games at conventions, and online digital events.
• Being responsible for communication between all relevant team members across oversea branches (between Japan and several of European offices) with the goal of efficient and transparent co-ordination of events.
• Developing detailed project plans that outline timelines, milestones, deadlines and resource allocation including budgets when appropriate.
• Communicating between stakeholders to ensure alignment and address any challenges.
• For physical events, co-ordinate logistics such as venue selection, vendor management, and technical requirements between local PR and marketing teams, and development and marketing teams in Japan.
• For digital events in particular, liaising between departments to set and efficiently follow asset approval, localisation and online streaming schedules
• Establishing event KPIs, collating relevant reporting data, and sharing across relevant teams.
• Continuously gather, analyse and share post-event feedback to inform future project planning and improvements, both within own team and across others.
• Manage the team, including working on KPIs and approving absences and expenses.
• Liaising with the finance team on reporting requirements.
• Facilitating visits from internal colleagues, press tours, events and business trips as required.
• Working proactively as a member of the Business Services team to cooperate with and support the other roles.
• Other duties as assigned by the heads of relevant business divisions or executives.
• To perform other duties as and when required

Japanese speaking Event Manager - Requirements:

• Previous experience in Video games industry
• Fluency in Japanese is essential.
• Experience with EN/JP and JP/EN translations is also necessary
• Project Management skills
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word/Excel and PowerPoint).

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