Business Producer, Senior Leadership Candidate

This role leads a business unit that creates and commercializes solutions for pharmaceutical companies by using JMDC’s healthcare big data, products, and internal specialists. The role discusses opportunities for new business impact with pharmaceutical clients and develops proposals that use data to address their business challenges.

Responsibilities include developing business strategy and plans, opening relationships with pharmaceutical customers, proposing data-use consulting services, developing service offerings, acquiring projects, managing delivery, and turning project insights into new businesses. Customer areas include marketing, business intelligence, and sales planning and promotion. The role is expected to lead solution and business creation and take responsibility for a business of approximately 500 million yen or more at an early stage after onboarding.

The position works with physicians, data scientists, engineers, product managers, consultants, and executives responsible for pharmaceutical-industry business. Example themes include supporting early diagnosis of potential patients with machine-learning models, visualizing patient journeys and deepening disease understanding through data, developing pharmaceutical-industry businesses using group-company data and technology, supporting specialist organizations that use real-world data, and planning the collection and use of new healthcare data through partnerships.

Required experience includes significant achievements in proposal activities as a leader responsible for services or solutions for pharmaceutical companies; significant achievements in client proposal activities as a project leader at a consulting firm; or experience developing strategy as the head of a pharmaceutical company’s marketing or Commercial Excellence function. Preferred experience includes logical document preparation and data-analysis skills, at least three cumulative years of consulting or service delivery for pharmaceutical companies, and successful project management of business-to-business services.

The company expects a senior professional who can lead a team at an early stage, promote work quickly, develop approaches from the objective without being constrained by established formats, take ownership of launching and operating new businesses, and demonstrate leadership in team building. The position is based at the Tokyo office in Minato, Tokyo. Employment is full-time, with a flextime system, core hours from 11:00 to 15:00, standard working hours of eight hours per day, and a 60-minute break. Benefits and conditions include social insurance, commuting allowance up to 150,000 yen per month, a defined-contribution pension, employee stock ownership, paid leave, childcare and nursing-care leave systems, and a mandatory retirement age of 65.