Mid-Level Marketing Consulting Sales

This role provides consulting sales to pharmaceutical, food, and consumer-sector companies. The position identifies client needs and uses food and nutrition data accumulated through the Oishi Kenko service, including eating trends by patient segment, to identify the healthcare value of client products and connect that value to marketing initiatives.

The work includes planning proposals tailored to client needs. Possible solutions include in-store promotions, fan marketing using social media, online and offline events such as cooking classes, and digital marketing solutions including app development. The role is responsible for understanding the client’s needs, shaping the proposal, and helping move the project forward.

Successful projects require leadership and coordination with internal directors, engineers, designers, and other specialists. The work also involves monitoring consumer behavior, listening to users’ perspectives, building knowledge of food, nutrition, and medical topics, and following current marketing trends so that the person in the role can develop detailed expertise for each project. Major companies are the primary clients, and the role works with them to create solutions addressing social and consumer needs.

The company develops the Oishi Kenko food-management app for patients and consumers, the Kakaris dietary guidance solution for medical institutions, and other services for health insurance associations. It also works with pharmaceutical, food, and other companies using evidence-based food and nutrition content and accumulated data. The organization includes engineers, designers, registered dietitians, and other professional roles.

The candidate profile calls for proposal and planning ability for major companies, creativity in developing and expressing new ideas, leadership in bringing people together and making decisions, and business skills for working carefully and responsively with large 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. Knowledge of food, nutrition, or medical research, business model design skills, and information analysis skills are also welcomed.

The position is full-time and located in Tokyo. The posting states that remote work and core-time flextime are available, and that online interviews are accepted. 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 company also holds welcome lunches and seasonal internal events approximately every three months.