Strategy & Planning Careers in Japan: What 521 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.
- 521
- 214
- 45%
- 46%
What Gets You In
1-2 years of experience
45
3-4 years of experience
96
5-9 years of experience
69
10+ years of experience
23
18%
35% day-to-day or above
Project Management
39%
Stakeholder Management
31%
Data Analysis
25%
Excel
17%
PowerPoint
11%
521 postings
Levels by Experience
1–2 years
16%
34% day-to-day or above
45 postings
3–4 years
22%
34% day-to-day or above
Bookkeeping certification (日商簿記) 5%
Stakeholder Management 39% (+32)
96 postings
5–9 years
22%
41% day-to-day or above
69 postings
10+ years
17%
Stakeholder Management 57% (+25)
23 postings
Stated Pay
Median ¥8,500,000 · 238 postings state pay
¥7,000,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥10,300,000
Median ¥9,600,000 · 52 postings state pay
¥7,000,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥10,400,000
Working Conditions
- 123 days
56 postings
- 19 h
39 postings
- 34%
- 19%
Fully remote
13
Hybrid
124
On-site
19
516 postings
What Comes Next
Senior leadership
27
People management
22
Specialist track
10
Project management
6
Overseas assignment
4
Internal transfer or rotation
3
Employers naming each step, of 36 that name one
Levels by Job Title
Specialist track
Entry / new graduate
6
Junior / associate
3
Senior
7
Principal
3
Management track
Team lead
42
Manager
37
Director
20
Team-lead level
42 postings from 24 employers
Every figure below summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA at this level. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, not any individual.
These figures summarize other postings tracked on AirTA, not this role.
Strategy & Planning · team-lead level
English · 37 postings
Daily English
38%
Some English
30%
No English stated
32%
Japanese · 37 postings
Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)
89%
Professional Working Proficiency (JLPT N2)
5%
No level stated
5%
5 years median (middle half 3 to 6)
over 13 postings stating a threshold
29% of postings (12)
9 openings are titled as a candidate for this level
Manager level
37 postings from 28 employers
Every figure below summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA at this level. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, not any individual.
These figures summarize other postings tracked on AirTA, not this role.
Strategy & Planning · manager level
English · 36 postings
Daily English
39%
Some English
31%
No English stated
31%
Japanese · 36 postings
Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)
78%
Professional Working Proficiency (JLPT N2)
17%
No level stated
6%
4.5 years median (middle half 3 to 5)
over 22 postings stating a threshold
19% of postings (7)
Project Management 46% (+22 pts over the level below)
Excel 24% (+12 pts over the level below)
terms counted over 37 postings at this level
18 openings are titled as a candidate for this level
Director level and above
21 postings from 18 employers
Every figure below summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA at this level. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, not any individual.
These figures summarize other postings tracked on AirTA, not this role.
Strategy & Planning · director level and above
English · 18 postings
Daily English
56%
Some English
28%
No English stated
17%
Japanese · 18 postings
Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)
67%
Professional Working Proficiency (JLPT N2)
22%
No level stated
11%
7 years median (middle half 5 to 11.5)
over 18 postings stating a threshold
29% of postings (6)
Stakeholder Management 52% (+11 pts over the level below)
terms counted over 21 postings at this level
1 openings are titled as a candidate for this level
Who Is Hiring
Related Functions
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Strategy & Planning career ladder?
A level-by-level summary of what live Strategy & Planning 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.
Role information is sourced from companies' public careers pages. Listed companies are not affiliated with AirTA. Is this your company? Claim your listing or request removal.