Procurement Careers in Japan: What 216 Job Postings Ask For
Every figure on this page summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, in aggregate, and is shown the same way to every reader. It is not a description of any individual’s career or prospects.
- 216
- 90
- 50%
- 25%
What Gets You In
1-2 years of experience
10
3-4 years of experience
39
5-9 years of experience
41
10+ years of experience
18
17%
49% day-to-day or above
Procurement
93%
Supply Chain Management
43%
Price Negotiation
27%
Excel
25%
Logistics
24%
Stakeholder Management
23%
Project Management
20%
Cost Reduction
19%
216 postings
Levels by Experience
1–4 years
8%
53% day-to-day or above
49 postings
5+ years
31%
69% day-to-day or above
Excel 31% (+17)
Stakeholder Management 34% (+14)
Cost Reduction 31% (+13)
Data Analysis 25% (+11)
PowerPoint 17% (+11)
59 postings
Stated Pay
Median ¥6,600,000 · 54 postings state pay
¥5,500,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥8,000,000
Working Conditions
- 22%
Fully remote
1
Hybrid
28
On-site
9
216 postings
What Comes Next
People management
15
Specialist track
8
Internal transfer or rotation
3
Employers naming each step, of 17 that name one
Who Is Hiring
Related Functions
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Procurement career ladder?
A level-by-level summary of what live Procurement job postings tracked on AirTA ask for. Levels come from job titles (manager, director, senior and so on) and, separately, from the years of experience a posting states. Every figure is a statistic over those postings, refreshed daily.
Where do the numbers come from?
From the job postings AirTA collects from employer career sites and applicant tracking systems. Years of experience, certifications and management experience are read from the posting text; the level is read from the title; pay is the salary the employer stated on the posting. Nothing is estimated for an individual.
Why is there no pay figure at some levels?
A pay band publishes only when at least 30 postings at that level state a salary, and a median only from 10. Senior-level pay is rarely published in Japan, so the honest answer at some levels is no figure rather than a figure borrowed from another level.
What does "candidate for" mean?
Some postings are titled 「マネージャー候補」 or "Manager Candidate": the employer states in the title that the opening is for someone who will grow into that level. The ladder counts those titles as the employer wrote them. It does not predict anyone’s promotion.
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