About this role

Join us now as Lead Japan Marketing in Japan within Marketing team. In this role, you will be responsible to develop and execute of integrated marketing and communications initiatives spanning corporate branding, investment content, product marketing, digital channels, and public relations. Acting as a key link between local, regional, and global stakeholders, it delivers impactful marketing strategies and campaigns that strengthen AllianzGI’s brand presence, support distribution objectives, enhance client engagement, and drive business growth in Japan.

What you do

Corporate Marketing:

- Help build a globally consistent investment leadership brand that strengthens AllianzGI’s appeal.
- Support global and local brand strategy roll-outs internally and externally.
- Meet agreed project timelines and milestones.
- Ensure materials and initiatives consistently reflect our brand and global guidelines.
- Showcase our investment capabilities through content marketing that supports priority products.

Product/Channel Marketing:

- Strengthen product marketing support by partnering with Sales, Investment, and Product Specialist teams to deliver timely business development materials.
- Build product awareness through advertising, channel events, and client events.
- Manage advertising agencies to develop compelling product campaigns and optimize media channels.
- Produce product leaflets, one-pagers, client communications, and co-branded materials.

Digital Marketing:

- Define content, business requirements, and metrics for websites and digital campaigns.
- Manage the content management system for jp.allianzgi.com.
- Use digital tools to support business development, including events and reporting.
- Execute online campaigns promoting AllianzGI’s investment capabilities and strategies.
- Support global and regional teams in planning digital media campaigns.
- Partner with global and regional teams to deliver digital projects quickly and efficiently.
- Plan, execute, measure, analyze, and optimize digital marketing initiatives.

Communications (with the regional Communications team):

- Develop and execute PR initiatives for brand and product campaigns, including media relations, events, and news releases.
- Support organizational goals by managing communications and public relations initiatives with senior management.
- Refine core company messages to maintain brand consistency.
- Resolve public affairs issues.

Others:

- Produce promotional giveaways.

What you bring

Required:

- Fluent in Japanese and advanced Business Level in English / Fluent is a plus
- 6-10 years’ relevant experience in terms of marketing campaign, event organization, marketing collateral design & production and digital marketing, ideally in Asset Management
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office
- Strong communicator

Preferred:

- Product knowledge across various asset classes (equity, fixed income, alternatives, multi-asset) would be very beneficial
- Familiarity with our website content management system Sitecore
- Hands-on attitude
- Familiarity with the relevant design / production tools, such as Adobe Illustrator
- AI skills: Microsoft CoPilot, Claude and AI-enabled workflows

What we offer

- We empower our employees by ensuring flexible work arrangements that maintain a balance between performance, productivity, career development and personal priorities (e.g., hybrid model/ flexible working hours)
- Securing your future: Access to retirement pension plan (DC + CB)
- Investments in your career: Career opportunities within the entire Allianz Group
- Investments in your skills: Comprehensive learning and development offerings, including certifications and professional qualifications
- … and so much more!

About Allianz Global Investors

Allianz Global Investors is a leading active asset manager, managing assets for individuals, families, and institutions worldwide. Our shared goal to shape a future of opportunity for our clients is foundational to our culture and our values. We look to attract, and actively nurture, individuals with the drive to achieve excellence at every stage of the investment experience.

We believe an inclusive culture is key to a flourishing workforce. Not only do we celebrate the broad range of experiences, backgrounds, and attributes that our workforce brings, but we support our people to live and work in a way that promotes their own wellbeing.

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges is what makes us a unique employer.

We are united by a shared commitment: to put our clients first and at the centre of everything we do. Their needs inspire our thinking and guide our actions.

Together, we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and confident to explore, grow and shape a better future – for our clients and for the world around us. At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. The foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and where integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust are at the heart of our culture.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

If you feel inspired to promote the active asset management experience, this is the place for you. Join our international, technology-enabled, and agile environment. Simply upload your CV in English to apply for this position.  If you need support to navigate our websites or at any stage during your application, please send an email with your request to  [email protected] .

To Recruitment Agencies:

Allianz Global Investors has an in-house recruitment team that sources great candidates directly. Therefore, Allianz Global Investors does not accept unsolicited resumes from agency or search firm recruiters.

When we do work with recruitment agencies, that engagement is formalized by a contract. Fees will only be paid when there is a contract in place.

Without a contract in place, we will not accept invoices on unsolicited resumes, even if the candidate was ultimately employed by Allianz Global Investors.

Finally, please do not contact hiring managers directly.

Join us. Let’s care for tomorrow.

How to Apply : Applying is quick and easy. Simply upload your CV, complete your personal details, confirm your consent for AI support in the “Additional Information” section, and submit your application.

To support our recruiters, we use Fit Score—an AI‑powered tool that highlights how closely your profile aligns with the role. This helps us review applications more efficiently and focus on what matters most: your skills and experience.

Good to know: The Fit Score is a support tool only. At Allianz, technology never replaces human judgment. Every application is carefully reviewed by our recruiting teams, ensuring a fair, thoughtful, and personal hiring process.