■Recruitment Background
GU, one of the Astri Retail Group's key brands, champions the brand message "YOUR FREEDOM: The freedom to reinvent yourself." We aim to become a true global brand by creating hit products that capture master trends, preventing stockouts of best-selling items, and delivering products and services that exceed customer expectations.
To become a truly global brand, GU still faces many challenges. These include building a stronger management team through the recruitment and development of diverse talent, enhancing the quality of products and styling, creating shopping environments that are easy for customers to navigate,We are seeking a candidate for the O2O Business Planning & Development Leader position who can join us in advancing our global challenge. This challenge centers on GU's unique brand value: maximizing fashion enjoyment with minimal SKUs and prices. This will be achieved through comprehensive transformation across all aspects of the apparel business, including improving the accuracy of quantity and sales planning, and establishing a flexible system for additional production.

■Department Overview
We operate the "GU Online Site," the world's largest flagship store, balancing commerce and branding. As the growth engine of our business, we aim to achieve sustainable and discontinuous growth in our e-commerce operations.
The Store & E-Commerce Integration Team we are recruiting for will collaborate with various departments to drive omnichannel initiatives and create a more seamless shopping experience between physical stores and e-commerce through digital touchpoints.

■Job Description
From both product and service perspectives, you will drive a more seamless shopping experience between physical stores and e-commerce through digital touchpoints. The goal is to realize "the clothes customers truly want, available when they want them, and ready to buy immediately."
Your mission is to review business performance from a customer-centric perspective and collaborate with various departments—from product development to sales associate customer service—across the entire business value chain to drive omnichannel integration. You will work closely with digital specialists to plan and implement new services centered around the GU app (with over 45 million cumulative downloads) and improve the app's usability based on customer feedback.

Specifically, you will be responsible for the following:
(1) Expand the customer base that uses both stores and e-commerce
(2) Increasing the number of users utilizing in-store pickup
(3) Introducing new services that integrate stores and e-commerce
　*(Examples) New rollouts of Click & Collect and ORDER & PICK services, etc.

■Career Path
Upon joining, you will gain an understanding of our in-store and online businesses while supporting the advancement of existing service initiatives. We expect you to take on the role of Product Manager at an early stage. Your scope of work will extend beyond Japan; you will horizontally scale domestic initiatives globally to deliver new experiential value to customers worldwide.

■Required Experience, Skills, and Abilities
・Product management experience (ability and experience to view products from the customer's perspective)
・Experience planning and developing new e-commerce services or new ventures at a business company or consulting firm
・Experience executing content planning or customer acquisition strategies for e-commerce services

■Desirable Experience, Skills, and Abilities
・Knowledge and understanding of the latest technologies and trends in the OMO (Online-Merge-Offline) domain
・Experience in planning and developing omni-channel services or introducing new services to stores
・Knowledge and experience in system planning and development for proprietary services
・Ability to accurately analyze current situations based on numerical results and sales conditions, and formulate and execute subsequent countermeasures with sound reasoning
・Strong leadership and communication skills to engage and inspire others
・English proficiency (TOEIC score of 700 or higher, as a guideline)
*Business-level proficiency in email, conversation, and presentations is a plus

■Company Name
GU Co., Ltd.

■Employment Type
Full-time Employee (Indefinite term, with a 3-month probationary period)

■Annual Salary Range
Approximately ¥7.04–11 million (Monthly Salary: ¥440,000–620,000)
・Allowances: Commuting allowance, overtime allowance based on grade
・Bonuses: Semi-annual bonuses twice a year, year-end bonus (payment and amount determined based on company performance and personnel evaluation)
・Promotions twice a year (determined based on performance evaluation)
*Salary will be determined based on company policy, taking into account previous annual income and experience, not limited to the above.

■Working Hours
Flexible working hours system, or managerial/supervisory role
・Flextime System: Standard daily working hours 8 hours, 1-hour break, Core time 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM, Flexible time 6:00 AM - 9:00 AM, 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Overtime work required
・Supervisory staff: Based on the working hours of the assigned department, determined by the employee

■Holidays & Leave
Two days off per week (Saturdays and Sundays; national holidays are workdays), special leave (8 days per half-year period, separate from paid leave), paid leave, special leave for family events

■Insurance Coverage
Social Insurance (Health Insurance, Employees' Pension Insurance, Employment Insurance, Workers' Accident Compensation Insurance, Long-Term Care Insurance)

■Employee Benefits
Employee stock ownership plan, mutual aid association, 401K, affiliated welfare programs, employee discount sales, cafeteria, dedicated shuttle bus (for commuting to Ariake Office)

■Other
・Our company actively hires mid-career professionals across various group entities (Fast Retailing, UNIQLO, GU, etc.). We encourage you to review the following information before considering your application.
- You may apply to multiple companies within the Fast Retailing Group simultaneously. However, please note that even if you progress in the selection process at multiple companies, you can only advance to the final selection stage for one position at a time.
- Based on your submitted resume and interview evaluations, we may discuss opportunities with other group companies or positions within the Fast Retailing Group.

・Smoking Prevention Measures: Smoking is prohibited on the premises and indoors. No designated smoking rooms are provided. (Smoking is prohibited during working hours, including breaks.)

Ariake Headquarters: UNIQLO CITY, 1-6-7 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo