Mid-level Healthcare Consulting Sales Consultant

This full-time, mid-career role is focused on consulting sales for pharmaceutical companies, food manufacturers, and companies in the wider lifestyle sector. Clients are primarily large enterprises.

The role involves understanding client needs and using food and health data accumulated through the company’s services, including meal trends by patient segment, to identify the healthcare value of client products. That value is then developed into marketing initiatives and proposals. Possible solutions include in-store promotions, fan marketing using social media, online and offline events such as cooking classes, app development, and other digital marketing initiatives.

The person in this role is expected to define how collaboration with clients can contribute to consumers and society, then drive projects through to implementation. Responsibilities include exercising leadership, coordinating with internal directors, engineers, and designers, and advancing solutions to client problems. The work also requires observing consumer behavior, listening carefully to users’ views, learning about food, nutrition, and medicine, and tracking current marketing trends.

The business context is healthcare, food, and nutrition. The company operates the food-management app Oishii Kenko for patients and consumers and the Kakaris dietary guidance solution for medical institutions. It also uses evidence-based food and nutrition content and big data to provide marketing consulting to pharmaceutical, food, home-appliance, and other lifestyle companies.

The expected profile includes the ability to propose and plan for large companies, creativity in generating and expressing new ideas, leadership in coordinating people and making decisions, and business skills for working with major clients. Flexibility and speed in responding to a changing venture environment are also sought. A strong interest in medical care, nutrition, and food, together with motivation to address social issues, is described as important.

Welcome experience includes consulting at a consulting firm, planning at an advertising agency, marketing at a food manufacturer, or sales experience 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 states that it uses remote work and core-time flextime. Online interviews are available, and the work location is Tokyo. The company has engineers, designers, and registered dietitians, and provides onboarding support such as monthly one-on-one lunches with a mentor during the first six months and regular meetings with the CEO.