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Yukiko Sakata

Serial Entrepreneur &

International Marketer for

Luxury, Fashion and Global Business

Skype @360yukiyukiko

Email yuki.sakata@protonmail.com

Address New York, NY / Tokyo, Japan  

about

ABOUT

An ambitious, diligent and skillful international serial entrepreneur with global business and marketing background. Specialized in cross-cultural communication, international business, global brand marketing, fashion, luxury, sport marketing, PR communication planning and marketing strategies. Her style is diplomatic and strategic in an creative way through harnessing the extraordinary understandings around human characteristics, emotions and intellect.  Her approaches to the problems and challenges take into consideration the significance of the totality of the business performance and human creativity, as well as the market trend and insight around various topics including and not only the business per se; social activism, economical challenges, political conflicts, diversity, environmental sustainability, gender and racial equality, civil rights and so on.

resumé

SKILLS & EXPERTISE

  • Business Administration: Basic office administration from the business set up to managing the administrative services for the multi-national large enterprises.

  • Presentation: High level document preparation and public speaking for sales pitches, lectures, briefings, and educations.

  • Marketing Planning: Omni-Channel marketing planning customized for the business needs using digital & social marketing, advertising and PR communication strategies.

  • Brand Marketing: Mix the strategies of branding, image advertising, creative production, marketing management and business analysis to lift up and maintain the desired brand value. 

  • Digital Marketing: Packaged services of website development, online marketing, email & social media, internet advertising and cross media creative planning to integrate into the 360 degrees marketing management to drive results.

  • Direct Marketing: Planning and execution of the strategies aiming to generate the desired short term sales results.

  • Business Development: Identification and analysis of potential new business opportunities, projectization, planning, communications and negotiation.

  • Business Planning: Establishment of the solid business planning from scratch to scale with decent productivity assured through market analysis and value assessment.

  • Global Business Consulting: Cross-region business analysis and consulting to help businesses grow internationally or improve the overall productivity by eliminating losses rooted in business, cultural and emotional gaps.

  • PR Communications: Comprehensive Brand, Product and Corporate PR through day to day media publicity opportunity broking, press release writing & distribution, communication planning with the job function crossing over with marketing and advertising to achieve the desired brand value preposition. 

  • Language Translation: To and From English - Japanese interpersonal translation, document translation, subscription, subtitling, and trans-creation of creative content, copy and marketing communications.

  • Team Management: Supportive team management and directions in groups ranging from a few to around 20 members by ensuring the group goals and personal growth achieved to satisfaction with high productivity and efficiency.

WORK EXPERIENCE

2015 - Present

Founder&CEO

INSPIRATIQUE

Tokyo, Japan and New York, New York

2014 - 2015

Senior Account Executive

Leo Burnett

Singapore, Singapore

2013 - 2014

Project Manager

Glam Media (Currently, Mode Media)

Tokyo, Japan

2013 - 2013

Global Event Communication Lead

Hakuhodo

Tokyo, Japan

2012 - 2013

Global Communication Coordinator & Translator

MediaCom (a groupM company)

Tokyo, Japan

2012 - 2012

Global Communication Coordinator & Translator

Mindshare (a groupM company)

Tokyo, Japan

2011 - 2012

Global Account Secretary & Translator

Dentsu

Tokyo, Japan

2011 - 2011

Project Secretary & Translator

PS Solutions (Softbank Group)

Tokyo, Japan

2009 - 2010

Administrative Assistant & Translator

Apple

Tokyo, Japan

2009 - 2009

Executive Secretary

Novonorisk Pharma

Tokyo, Japan

2007 - 2008

Global Sales Assistant & Translator

Taito

Tokyo, Japan

2007 - 2007

Administrative Assistant & Translator

Leggenda Corporations (onsite at Sisco Systems)

Tokyo, Japan

2006 - 2007

Administrative Assistant & Translator

Speedwell Advisors (Nezu Asia Capital Management)

Tokyo, Japan

2005 - 2006

PR Stuff & Translator

Vector Communications (Currently, Platinum)

Tokyo, Japan

2005 - 2005

Telecommunicator & Translator

World Support

Aichi, Japan

2004 - 2005

Hotel & Restaurant Stuff

Mount Side Jodel Hakuba

Nagano, Japan

2002 - 2004

English Teacher

Aeon Amity English School (Aeon Corporation)

Aichi, Japan

EDUCATION

2021 - 2023 Anticipated

Essec International Business School

Executive Master in Luxury Brand Management and Design Innovation

Paris La Défense, France.

2015 - 2016 Anticipated

Hult International Business School

(Executive) Master in Business Administration

Boston, the United States.

1998 - 2002

Kobe City University Of Foreign Studies

Bachelor in Foreign Language Studies, English Major

Hyogo, Japan.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Developed awareness and attention to Japanese culture trend and behavioral insight and successfully created new business opportunities connecting the regional client HQ, the regional agency and the local Japan agency for P&G, while nurtured the existing relationships. 

  • Accomplished the international communication and direction in the complex multi-agency environment for the local and the global client to plan and complete the execution of the stand at International Auto Show for Mercedes-Benz.

  • Strategized the existing job discipline to meet the hidden needs of clients and compiled a business concept to spin out from the agency environment and rolled out an agency startup.

  • Global business development leveraging a unique structure and networks resulting in multiple luxury brand prospective and Fortune 100 company clients.

  • Discovered the in-depth cross-cultural communication issues beyond the capacity of translation and interpretation, successfully raised awareness of the importance of detailed care and analysis about thought and behavioral patterns, cultures and emotions for any international communication opportunities

  • Successfully provided linguistic services such as English education and translations to over 80 students and to over 20 clients, respectively

contact

CONTACT

Skype @360yukiyukiko

Email yuki.sakata@protonmail.com

Address New York, NY (and Japan) 

Twitter

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