Project Planner / Director

This full-time, mid-career position is based in Tokyo and leads client projects for major pharmaceutical and food and beverage companies. The work covers healthcare product development, marketing initiatives, and clinical research projects. The company operates the AI menu-planning and nutrition-management app Oishi Kenko and provides healthcare knowledge and data-based services.

The planner/director works with sales to understand client issues, define requirements, design projects, set schedules, break down tasks, and manage milestones. The role assigns and coordinates internal resources including registered dietitians, data team members, and engineers. Responsibilities also include preparing and presenting proposals, planning documents, and reports for clients; supporting product concept development through market research, user-insight analysis, and positioning; planning and directing marketing initiatives and measuring their results; managing clinical research and evidence-building projects, including coordination with external research organizations; and reviewing projects, standardizing lessons learned, and sharing knowledge internally.

Required qualifications include at least three years of client-work experience at a contracted 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, expectations, reporting, and escalation, the ability to create structured proposals that support decision-making, and the ability to manage multiple projects in parallel.

Preferred experience includes client work in pharmaceuticals, food, beverages, or healthcare; planning and executing digital, CRM, or content-marketing initiatives; projects involving product development or brand strategy; extracting insights and preparing reports from data analysis; basic knowledge of clinical research or academic papers; and knowledge of or interest in nutrition and food science.

The position works across disciplines in a healthcare technology business, collaborating with registered dietitians, data scientists, engineers, and other specialists. The company describes itself as a startup focused on combining food, health, data, and AI. Remote work and core-time flextime are used. Online interviews are accepted, and the company provides onboarding that includes monthly mentor one-on-one lunches and regular CEO meetings during the first six months.