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Takeki Maeyama

Takeki Maeyama

Head of Corporate Planning Department, joined the company in 1997.

Reasons for joining the company
I love cars and wanted to work in a field related to automobiles. When I visited the company's acoustic testing facility, I was simply amazed and decided to join the company.

Career Steps

1997
Upon joining the company, I was assigned to the Yokohama sales office.
I am responsible for customers in western Kanagawa Prefecture, including parts manufacturers and electronics manufacturers.

1998
I'm being transferred due to the opening of the new Atsugi office.

2004
I was in charge of the Hokuriku region at the Kyoto sales office.

2011
I was transferred to the Kansai sales office and became responsible for Hyogo Prefecture.

2013 - Present
I was transferred to the newly established strategic department, the Corporate Planning Office.

A change in position changes your perspective: the work of business planning.

I am currently working in the Corporate Planning Department.
This department is responsible for preparing the groundwork for management to formulate strategies (planning and drafting initial proposals, etc.) and providing information (research, data processing, etc.).

Previously, I had only viewed the company from a sales perspective, so my change in position has significantly altered my viewpoint and perspective.
My perspective has shifted from maximizing sales for individual customers or within my assigned area to considering the company as a whole, or even from a broader, external viewpoint. I still feel I lack the necessary skills, but I find it incredibly rewarding.
As such, our department, being a strategy department, does not have many routine tasks.

You could say that my job is to think about what I should do, to create the mission itself. If what I do isn't decided, then in other words, there are endless possibilities.
Right now, my main goal is to make Ono Sokki a great company.
I want to utilize the experience I've gained in sales to contribute to achieving positive results for all stakeholders involved with Ono Sokki.

We can learn a lot from regional differences and differences in customers.

Our sales staff are assigned to handle clients immediately after joining the company and completing a basic training program. This means they are given responsibility even though they are completely unfamiliar with the process, so during my time as a newcomer, I studied relentlessly.
In western Kanagawa Prefecture, where I was initially assigned, there were many parts manufacturers and electronics manufacturers, so I made it a point to understand our customers and think about what they expected of our company.
After that, as my assigned area changed to Hokuriku and then Hyogo, I learned even more. Even though it's all sales, the style changes depending on the region and the customer. In Hokuriku, the area was large, so I tended to focus on efficiency, but I changed to a style that was customer-centric, visiting customers multiple times.
In Hyogo Prefecture, where there are many heavy industry manufacturers, we tend to deal more with system products than catalog products, and we've adopted a style of deeply immersing ourselves in a single project.
I learned a lot from every region, style, and customer.
The network of contacts I built during that time—not only with customers, but also with people in the technical department—is proving useful in my current work in corporate planning.