Mid-level Business Consultant

This full-time mid-career role is a consulting sales position for pharmaceutical, food, and other consumer-sector companies. The consultant identifies client needs and uses dietary and health data gathered through the Oishi Kenko service, including food trends by patient segment, to identify healthcare value in client products and connect it to marketing initiatives.

Proposed initiatives may include in-store promotions, fan marketing using social media, online and offline events such as cooking classes, and digital marketing solutions such as app development. The role requires planning and presenting proposals suited to each client. A central responsibility is to define and realize how collaboration with clients can contribute to consumers and society.

The consultant is expected to provide leadership, drive projects, and coordinate with directors, engineers, designers, and other internal specialists to solve customer problems. The work also involves observing consumer behavior, listening to users' views, learning about food, nutrition, and medicine, and tracking current marketing trends so that the consultant can build detailed subject knowledge.

Clients are primarily large companies. The company applies evidence-based food and nutrition content and big data accumulated through its meal and nutrition support service to marketing consulting. Its business context includes the consumer-facing Oishi Kenko meal-management app, the Kakaris dietary guidance solution for medical institutions, and collaborations with pharmaceutical, food, healthcare, and household-goods companies.

The posting lists consulting experience at a consulting firm, planner experience at an advertising agency, marketing experience at a food manufacturer, or sales experience in the food, healthcare, or IT industry as welcome experience. Academic knowledge of food, nutrition, or medicine, business-model design, and information-analysis skills are also welcomed. The desired profile includes proposal and planning ability for major companies, creativity in developing and expressing ideas, leadership in coordinating people and making decisions, business skills for working with major clients, and flexibility and speed in a changing venture environment.

The work location is Tokyo. The company states that employees use remote work and core-time flextime. Online interviews are available. The company has about 45 members and describes itself as a startup. New employees receive onboarding that includes monthly one-on-one lunches with a mentor during their first six months and regular meetings with the CEO.