Recruitment Background

Since its launch in 2003, “UT” has continued to produce collaboration T-shirts. With its growing global presence in regions such as the U.S., the EU, and ASEAN, the importance of planning collaboration products has also increased. To ensure we continue delivering timeless value to customers around the world, we are seeking individuals who can drive the production of “UT” collaboration products (licensed products).

Department Overview

“UT,” UNIQLO’s T-shirt brand, began in 2003 as the “UNIQLO T-shirt Project.” Under the theme “T-shirts: More Freedom, More Fun,” it has widely promoted T-shirts to society as a tool for freely expressing individuality.In the fall of 2006, the opening of the UNIQLO SOHO NY store featured a flagship campaign titled the “Japanese Pop Culture Project.” This project garnered significant attention when leading Japanese artists used T-shirts as canvases to express “Contemporary Tokyo” through their own creative visions. This success accelerated our efforts to create the world’s best T-shirts. Since then, we have continued to collaborate with artists, characters, companies, and brands from around the world, delivering an overwhelming variety of graphic T-shirts to our customers every year.By realizing collaborations that amaze customers around the world—and by embodying UNIQLO’s “LifeWear” philosophy while centering on culture—we are driving UNIQLO toward becoming the world’s number one apparel brand in both name and reality.

Job Description

As a project manager at the global headquarters, you will drive each collaboration—from planning and negotiating various UT content (such as art, manga, fashion, and characters) to coordinating with business units and the overseas business division.

Specifically, you will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Conduct market research based on seasonal strategies and develop concrete collaboration plans
• Negotiating contracts with licensors involved in collaborations
• Drive the UT business in collaboration with relevant internal departments (MD, MK, R&D)

Taking your previous experience and skills into account, you will start by focusing primarily on either marketing-related tasks centered on UT or licensing-related tasks such as contract negotiations with licensors; in the future, there is a possibility that your responsibilities will expand to include both types of work.

Career Path

• In the medium to long term, you are expected to take on the following roles:

• Head of Collaboration Business Promotion
• UT Brand Manager
• Global Product Marketing Professional

Required Experience, Skills, and Abilities

• Business-level English proficiency

(Guideline: TOEIC score of 700 or higher. Please include your TOEIC score, business-related experience, study abroad experience, etc., in your resume and work history.)

Candidates with experience in any of the following areas

• Practical experience in product management, marketing, or PR at a corporate entity, publishing company, advertising agency, creative agency, or in the licensing business (approximately 3 years or more)
• Experience involved in various types of licensing businesses
• Experience leading projects involving internal and external stakeholders, both domestically and internationally

Preferred Experience, Skills, and Abilities

• A passion for culture—such as fashion, art, and music—with at least one area of expertise, as well as deep knowledge, insight, and a keen understanding of that field
• Experience in product planning
• Experience planning and editing cultural articles for magazines, websites, and other media

Company Name

UNIQLO Co., Ltd.

Employment Type

Full-time Employee (Permanent Position, with a 3-month probationary period)

Annual Salary

• Annual Salary Range: 6.56–16.20 million yen (Monthly Salary: 410,000–900,000 yen)

• Allowances: Commuting allowance, overtime pay, etc. (*All subject to company regulations)

• Bonuses: Semi-annual bonuses twice a year, year-end bonus (eligibility and amount determined based on company performance and performance evaluations)

• Promotions twice a year (determined based on performance evaluations)

*Salary will be determined based on company regulations, taking into account your previous annual income and experience, and is not limited to the figures listed above.

Working Hours

Flexible work hours or managerial/supervisory position

• Flexible work schedule

Standard daily working hours: 8 hours; break: 1 hour
Core hours: 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Flexible hours…6:00–9:00 and 14:00–20:00; overtime work may occur

• Supervisors

Based on the working hours of the employee’s department; left to the employee’s discretion

Holidays and Leave

Two days off per week (Saturdays and Sundays; national holidays are considered workdays) Annual paid leave, special and bereavement leave, childcare and family care leave systems, etc.

*In addition to paid leave, special leave is granted in the first and second halves of the fiscal year (the number of days granted varies depending on employment status and the company to which the employee belongs)

Insurance Coverage

Social Insurance (Health Insurance, Employees’ Pension Insurance, Employment Insurance, Workers’ Compensation Insurance, Long-Term Care Insurance)

Employee Benefits

Employee stock ownership plan, mutual aid association, partner welfare programs, employee discount program, cafeteria, dedicated shuttle bus (for commuting to the Ariake Office), defined contribution pension plan

Other

• We are actively hiring mid-career professionals across various Group companies (Fast Retailing, UNIQLO, GU, etc.). We would appreciate it if you could review the information below and consider applying.

• Within the Fast Retailing Group, you may apply to multiple companies simultaneously. However, please note that even if the selection process proceeds 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 performance, we may suggest other companies or positions within the Fast Retailing Group.

• Measures Against Secondhand Smoke: As a general rule, smoking is prohibited on company premises and indoors; we do not provide designated smoking rooms (smoking is prohibited during working hours, including break times).

Ariake Headquarters: 1-6-7 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo, UNIQLO CITY
*Your location may be changed to a location designated by the company, including overseas locations.