Business Consultant, Consulting Sales

This full-time, mid-career business consultant role focuses on consulting sales for pharmaceutical, food, and lifestyle-sector companies. Clients are mainly large enterprises.

The role identifies client needs and uses food and health data accumulated through the company's services, including food trends by patient segment, to find the healthcare value of client products and connect it to marketing initiatives. Proposed initiatives may include in-store promotions, fan marketing through social media, online and offline events such as cooking classes, and digital marketing solutions including app development.

The consultant is responsible for defining how collaboration with each client can contribute to consumers and society, and for driving projects through to delivery. This includes leading discussions, coordinating with internal directors, engineers, designers, and other specialists, and advancing solutions to customer problems. The role also calls for ongoing observation of consumer behavior, listening to user feedback, learning about food, nutrition, and healthcare, and tracking current marketing trends.

The requested profile includes proposal and planning ability for large companies, creativity in developing and expressing new ideas, leadership and decision-making ability, business skills for working carefully and responsively with major clients, and flexibility and speed in a changing venture environment. Strong interest in medical care, nutrition, and food, together with motivation to address social issues such as rising medical costs and social-security pressures, is also sought.

Preferred experience includes consulting at a consulting firm, planning at an advertising agency, marketing at a food manufacturer, or sales in the food, healthcare, or IT industries. Knowledge of food, nutrition, or medical research, business-model design skills, and information-analysis skills are also welcomed.

The company develops and monetizes the food-management app Oishi Kenko, the medical-institution dietary-guidance solution Kakaris, and solutions for health-insurance associations. It also conducts joint clinical research with medical institutions and works with pharmaceutical and food companies. The organization includes engineers, designers, registered dietitians, and sales staff, and uses accumulated food and nutrition evidence and big data in its services. The company is also working to combine existing products with newer technologies such as generative AI.

The position is based in Tokyo. Remote work and core-time flextime are used. Online interviews are available. The company has approximately 45 employees, with many joining mid-career. Onboarding includes monthly one-on-one lunches with a mentor during the first six months and regular meetings with the CEO. Welcome lunches and quarterly or seasonal internal events are also held.