Marketing Consultant

This full-time marketing consulting sales role serves pharmaceutical, food, and consumer-lifestyle companies, with large enterprises as the main clients. The work begins by understanding each client’s needs and using food and health data, including dietary trends by patient segment accumulated through the company’s services, to identify the healthcare value of the client’s products and connect it to marketing initiatives.

The consultant plans and proposes measures suited to each client. Examples stated in the posting include in-store promotions, fan marketing through social media, online and offline events such as cooking classes, app development, and other digital marketing solutions. The role is responsible for shaping how collaboration with client companies can contribute to consumers and society, then moving the resulting projects forward.

Day-to-day work requires leadership and coordination with internal directors, engineers, designers, and other specialists to address customer problems and deliver projects. The posting emphasizes regularly observing consumer behavior, listening carefully to users’ views, learning about food, nutrition, and medicine, and keeping up with current marketing trends so that the consultant develops broad, relevant knowledge.

The company develops the food-management app Oishi Kenko for patients and consumers, the Kakaris dietary guidance solution for medical institutions, and other services for health insurance associations. It also uses accumulated food and nutrition evidence and big data to provide problem-solving marketing consulting to pharmaceutical, food, home-appliance, and other lifestyle-sector companies. The role operates in this food, healthcare, and medical domain and works with internal professionals including registered dietitians, engineers, and designers.

Required capabilities include proposal and planning skills for large companies, the creativity to develop and express new ideas, leadership for bringing people together and making decisions, and business skills for working carefully, quickly, and attentively with major clients. Flexibility and speed in a changing venture environment are 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. Academic knowledge of food, nutrition, or medicine, business-model design skills, and information-analysis skills are also welcomed.

The posting describes a startup environment of approximately 40 employees. Remote work and core-time flextime are used, and new employees receive onboarding during their first six months, including monthly one-on-one lunches with a mentor and regular meetings with the CEO. The job is located in Tokyo, and online interviews are accepted.