Keisuke Kimura

- Developing new business through marketing initiatives and strategic planning, while collaborating with technology firms and academic institutions to create innovative applications for the food and tourism sectors.

- Played a key role in the executive committee for an international marine environmental event, coordinating remotely from Seattle. This significant event, held in Japan in collaboration with Fukuoka City, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and other stakeholders, successfully took place last October

• - Conducted target market research to scope out industry competition and identify advantageous trends.
• - Drove product development from concept to launch, ensuring alignment with customer needs.
• - Identified business development challenges and customer concerns for proactive resolution.

• - Oversaw the North American mainland operations of a publicly listed Japanese company with over 350 stores in Japan, managing a staff of 175 and effectively responding to both internal and external audits.
• - Collaborated cross-functionally with headquarters, regional and other teams nationally to maintain consistent message and experience.
• - Increased profit margins through effective budget and overhead control and optimizing product turns, enhanced product performance via data-driven analysis and continuous improvement initiatives, achieving 1.8 times sales and 39 times net profit over four years without reducing labor.

- Exclusively sold Mitsubishi Electric’s hand dryers and other products.

- Enhanced profitability by developing pipelines utilizing marketing and sales strategies.

- Conducted market research to identify new opportunities and target markets.

- Developed a product tracking system in collaboration with Microsoft, optimizing product lineups using data from POS and this system, and conducted market analysis to identify opportunities.

- Managed purchases, inventory levels, and distribution of all food, beverage, and operational supplies, coordinating with vendors to ensure product quality and negotiate pricing, while optimizing inventory management systems to minimize losses due to shrinkage or obsolescence.