Japanese Bilingual Product Planner

Job Description

Currently, an internationally well-established Japanese corporation in Electrical Components Manufacture for Automobile is looking for a Full Time Product Planner (SCA#24899)---Product Planner-------. If you love car, sports car, automobile in general and have great interpersonal, sales, marketing skill set, this will be a quite exciting position for you!

Position: Product Planner

Industry: Technology / Automobile/Marketing/PR

Location: Torrance, CA /Greater Los Angeles / Southbay area

Languages: Japanese and English a MUST

Pay: $55-70K (Depending on your experience)

Status: Full time + Excellent benefits

Duties

• Liaises with engineering, sales division to determine customer requirements
• Approves materials, costs, manufacturing equipment, and the size of workforce needs to manufacture goods
• Predicts how long a project will take to complete
• Develops a production schedule detailing all tasks and when they should be completed by to meet predicted completion date
• Liaises with customers, suppliers, the human resources department, and engineering employees to ensure all workers, materials, and machinery will be available when required
• Monitors project's progress to ensure it's following the schedule
• Troubleshoots problems that occur during production, including staff shortages and machinery malfunctions
• Organizes project paperwork, including purchase orders, and maintains records
• Monitors production and raw material costs
• Collects and assesses data about the production and team's performance
• Prepares reports about production processes for upper management and suggests ways to improve efficiency

Qualifications

• Japanese must be native level in speaking, writing, and reading. English must be business level
• Work experience in Automobile, Electrical Components, IT, Computer industry will be preferred but not required
• Must have +2 over years of new product development, marketing, and/or PR experience
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other office related software skill will be welcomed
• Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skill
• Able to work independently