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1. Background
<Brief overview>
Name: Masafumi Homma
Age: 33 years old
Born: Paris in France
Raised: Tokyo in Japan
Visited: 50+ countries
Lived 6 months year+:
• Cairo (Egypt) 1 year
• Jeddah (KSA) 1 year
• Dubai (UAE) 2.5 years
• Nashville (US) 6 months
My hobbies:
Baseball
Learning
Travel
Learner, early adaptor to the new environments.
Man of strong will to achieve my objective.
Who I am? => I am a...
2013 in Zhuhai, China
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By explaining my past deeds &
achievement, I would like to
showcase that I am quick learner &
man of strong will.
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2. Baseball (1/3) –High school baseball
<Key points>
20 years+ career (11 years old~ current)
Dedicated to high school baseball (2002~2004: Kuzuu high school)
Commitment to Rubber baseball (2015~current: NTT baseball club)
My effort to become regular member
I changed right-hitting to left-hitting.
Why?
=> My sales point meets team’s demand
• Team Fastest-running record (5.9 sec/50m)
• Left-hitting box is closer to 1st base.
Facts:
Led baseball dedicated life in
Dormitory w/ Severe discipline.
(Described as military style discipline.)
Got Scholarship for my skill.
Regular center fielder among 80+
members competition.
Required 500 extra swings (practice)/day.
=>2 hours extra vs. others
Successfully appealed to managers and well
performed in games. => Won the position.
2002 in Tochigi (Only Fresh members)
It is me @ 15 years old
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3. Baseball (2/3) –NTT Rubber baseball team
<High motives for baseball>
During my stay in Dubai in 2015 at age of 29, I start
thinking, “I am 29 years old and am I OK to finish my
baseball career w/ just hobby?”.
Answer is “No”.
So, I started job-hunting in order to gain Japan based job and
got offer from Nissan.
Left the previous job and returning to Japan, took 1 month off
and joined selection of NTT rubber baseball team, and
successfully accepted by team.
<Team Fact>
- Established in 1948
- 20+ members
- Achieved semi-quarter
final in Tokyo baseball
tournament (2016/2017)
2017 Musashino City tournament (Won the one)
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4. Baseball (3/3) –NTT Rubber baseball team
Objective:
Advance to quarter final in Tokyo Rubber
Baseball tournament.
My challenges:
- New position:
Short stopper/ Second baseman
(Broadened my experience & knowledge)
- Team leader:
Motivate the team and implement the strategy
- Weight training:
Achieved Benchpress:95kg, Squat:130kg, Deadlift:150kg.
Achievement:
- Advanced to semi-quarter final in 2017, 2018 (1st time in 70 years)
I am a man of strong will to make every effort to
achieve the set objective.
Summary
Tokyo Tournament 2017
vs. Toshiba
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5. Overseas experience (1/3) –Overview
Company From To Site Assignment
SHARP Electronics Co.
(2009.4-2015.9)
2009.4 2010.3 Japan AV products sales to end customers
2010.4 2011.3 Japan Emerging market development dept.
(GCC, Africa)
2011.4 2012.3 Egypt Arabic Language trainee/ Market survey
2012.3 2013.3 Saudi
Arabia
Distributor business management
New A/C* introduction project management
2013.4 2015.8 UAE Mgr.: AV business planning
(Stock & Profit & Loss mgmt/ Line-up/ budget/etc)
Nissan Motor Co.
(2015.9 - present)
2015.9 2017.9 Japan AMI Marketing (Light commercial vehicle)
2017.10 2018.3 USA NNA LCV BU CMM (LCV: Titan/NV Van)
2018.4 Present Japan AMI Marketing (Electric, passenger vehicle)
6 & half years
3 & half years
*Abbreviation: A/C = Air conditioner
AMI: Africa, Middleeast and India
Overseas assignment
<Key points>
Overseas experience gives me insight of... Arabic language, Islamic
religion and culture.
Important to establish relationship w/ people with diff. background.
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6. Overseas experience (2/3) –Egypt
<Arabic language learning>
Spend 1 year on Egypt to learn Arabic language
Language school Sat-Thu full Arabic immersion.(6 days/ week)
<My actions to maximize experience>
- Read 20 Islamic religion related books in 1 year to know the culture.
- Conducted Egyptian life-style survey as to Food, house and cloths to
learn more about habit/culture. (Visited Cairo university, 10 homes)
- Negotiated and succeeded with company to invest 1 extra day tuition
fee to accelerate learning.
- Traveled to 5 Arab countries to test my Arabic and know other Arabic
countries’ culture.
Cairo, Egypt 2011 Cairo, Egypt 2012
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7. Overseas experience (3/3) –Saudi & UAE
<Challenges>
KSA Air conditioner introduction project with half lead-time vs. normal
No experience/knowledge in new product introduction process
Customer in KSA, production in China and process in Japan.
<Actions>
Development & check daily basis project management w/ involvement
of all related functions.
(Product/business plan, logistics, homologation, business rule, etc.)
Due to time restriction, Face to face negotiation/discussion by
immediate travel to the site. (Even visited China local shipping company)
Zhuhai, China 2012 Jeddah, KSA Dealer MTG 2012. Duai, SHARP MiddleEast JAFZA, 2012
- Quick learn to perform in un-experienced area.
- Gaining multi-cultural cooperation was key.
Key
Points
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Multi-cultural understanding and respect to their culture is a key to
take leadership to perform in job.
Positive Learning attitude + share my learning transparently to
others is must to motivate others for actions.
Multi-cultural
cooperation
Motivate others
Learn & Lead
Perform
Strong will & ownership to perform
Base
Compe-
tencies
8. Summary
As a result of high performance in Nissan...
- I was selected as “Nissan high potential
Japanese employee training program*” as
wave6 after selection.
* Only 70 Japanese employees registered entire company.
* Entitled to 4 years overseas assignment & various Off Job training opportunity
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I am looking forward to
talking with you in depth
about myself.
Thank you for reading.
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