Regulatory Affairs Manager

About the Position

Regulatory Affairs Manager

Nishi-Tokyo-shi, Préfecture de Tokyo

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Why BAT Japan

At British American Tobacco (BAT) Japan, regulatory work is closely aligned with commercial decisions rather than downstream of them. The team is small enough that you're recognized individually for what you produce.

Job Highlights

• A market-leading annual performance bonus (subject to eligibility)
• Health cover, transport support, and a flexible holiday plan with additional incentives
• English and Japanese language training, delivered on company time
• A published capability framework for every role and grade
• Included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices for 24 consecutive years
• Global Top Employer for the ninth consecutive year

The Role

You will read the regulatory and policy environment, work out what it means for the business, and tell senior leaders what to do about it. Then you run the plan-campaigns, engagement, industry work-and you're accountable for whether it moved anything. This is a small team, which means your analysis goes to leadership with your name on it rather than someone else's.

Responsibilities

• The view on where regulation and policy are heading in Japan, and what that means commercially-supported by data, not instinct
• Recommendations that reduce regulatory risk and open up business options, with the trade-offs made explicit
• The material that goes to senior leadership-in Japanese and English-turning complex regulatory questions into something a decision-maker can act on in ten minutes
• Planning and delivery of regulatory and policy initiatives, from stakeholder mapping through to execution
• Engagement with external stakeholders including industry associations, alongside our external affairs leadership
• Alignment across Legal, public policy, the business units, and global teams, so we say the same thing in every room
• The measures of whether the work landed, and the honesty to change approach when it didn't

Requirements

• A data-driven approach-you argue from evidence and are comfortable being challenged on it
• A track record of building material for executive audiences and structuring complexity into a clear argument
• The ability to run projects independently, across functions and across borders

Qualifications

• 5–10 years in regulatory affairs, public affairs, government affairs, or regulatory strategy. Government, consulting, or industry association backgrounds are all relevant
• Fluent Japanese. Business-level English is enough-your understanding of the Japanese regulatory environment is what we're hiring, and we provide structured English training on company time

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Health cover, transport support, and a flexible holiday plan with additional incentives
• English and Japanese language training, delivered on company time

About the Company

At BAT, we are dedicated to careers that bring meaning. We are a truly global company, and the scale and scope of opportunities are infinite. Our purpose is to create A Better Tomorrow™, with a vision to build a smokeless world. As at 31 December 2025, 34.1 million consumers used our Smokeless Products, generating 18.2% of Group revenue. A category changing this quickly gets regulated in real time, and Japan is one of the markets where the framework is still being written. That is the environment you would be working in.

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