Mid-level Planner / Director

This full-time role leads client projects for large pharmaceutical and food and beverage companies, typically working with corporate planning or marketing departments. The projects cover healthcare product concept development, functional evidence creation, marketing initiatives for target consumers, and clinical research-related work. The company operates an AI menu-planning and nutrition-management app used by approximately two million people each month and applies its food, health, and technology knowledge to client services.

The position takes over projects obtained by the sales team and manages them from initial planning and requirements definition through progress control and final delivery. Responsibilities include interviewing clients about their challenges, defining requirements, designing projects, preparing schedules, breaking work into tasks, managing milestones, assigning registered dietitians, data team members, and engineers, and directing their collaboration. The role also prepares and presents client proposals, planning documents, and reports; supports market research, user-insight analysis, and positioning for product concepts; plans marketing activities, oversees creative direction, measures results, manages clinical research and evidence-building projects with external research organizations, and documents lessons learned for internal use.

Required qualifications include at least three years of client work at a contract development company, advertising agency, production company, consulting firm, or similar organization. Candidates must have project management experience including creating a WBS and managing the progress of multiple members, experience negotiating with clients on requirements and expectations and handling reporting or escalation, the ability to create structured proposals and planning documents that support decision-making, and the ability to manage several projects in parallel.

Experience with pharmaceutical, food, beverage, or healthcare clients; planning and executing digital, CRM, or content marketing; product development or brand strategy projects; data-based insight extraction and reporting; clinical research or academic papers; and knowledge of or interest in nutrition or food science are listed as preferred. The work is based in Tokyo. Remote work and core-time flextime are used, and online interviews are available. The company provides onboarding that includes monthly one-on-one mentor lunches and regular meetings with the CEO during the first six months.