also: おもやく
noun
company director; executive; top management
Only with reading じゅうやく
Business and organizational term for a senior executive or member of top management. Restricted this sense to the reading じゅうやく.
父は商社の重役を務めている。
My father serves as an executive at a trading company.
重
The top executives decided on a new management policy.
noun
important post; role with heavy responsibilities
Refers to a weighty office or responsibility rather than specifically to a company executive. This use is more formal and less common in everyday speech than expressions such as 重責 or 重要な役目; the reading おもやく is obsolete.
彼は祭り全体を取り仕切る重役を任された。
He was entrusted with the important role of overseeing the entire festival.
古い文章では、重役をおもやくと読ませることがある。
In older writing, 重役 is sometimes read as omoyaku.