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About the Role

Contribute to maintaining competitive advantage by maximizing the benefits of products and portfolios to as many patients as possible through excellent product strategy planning and execution, thereby reinvesting in science for patients.

Responsibilities

• Plan, structure, analyze, and solve business challenges by understanding market environments, customers, products, and portfolios, and formulate product strategies and mid-to-long-term plans.
• Plan and execute market research, and conduct analysis of external/internal factors and customer insights based on research findings.
• Plan, execute, and evaluate promotional activities based on strategy, including planning, execution, and evaluation of materials, events, and digital initiatives.
• Propose systems for measuring marketing and sales activities and collaborate with other departments to build internal systems.
• Manage Key External Experts (KEEs).
• Collaborate and coordinate with relevant internal (including global teams) and external stakeholders.

Requirements

• 3+ years of sales or marketing experience in the medical/pharmaceutical industry.
• Consideration for individuals with less than 3 years of experience but with potential.
• Ability to extract insights by correctly interpreting market research results and objective facts based on hypotheses, and to build hypotheses based on market conditions and trends.
• Ability to objectively grasp events and accurately analyze and understand the current situation (experience in analysis or research is a plus).
• Proactiveness to execute actions towards problem-solving.
• Questioning and analytical skills to identify issues through meetings with physicians.
• Attitude to continuously challenge oneself without settling in one's comfort zone and to try new initiatives and approaches to achieve goals.
• Attitude to collaborate with related departments to achieve results as a team.
• Proficiency in creating documents using Excel/PowerPoint and utilizing other IT tools used within the company.
• Logical thinking skills.
• Communication skills.
• Sufficient Japanese communication skills.
• Acquire TOEIC 800 within 2 years after joining the company (English proficiency is not required at the time of application).

Skills

• Market research planning and execution
• Analysis of external/internal factors and customer insights
• Promotional activity planning, execution, and evaluation
• System proposal for marketing and sales measurement
• KEE management
• Stakeholder collaboration
• Hypothesis building
• Objective analysis
• Problem-solving
• Questioning and analytical skills
• Proactiveness
• Teamwork
• Excel/PowerPoint proficiency
• IT tool utilization
• Logical thinking
• Communication

Location

• Tokyo
• Osaka

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 3+ years in medical/pharmaceutical sales or marketing

About the Company

• AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company.
• We focus on discovering, developing, and commercializing prescription medicines for some of the world's most serious diseases.
• We are dedicated to being a Great Place to Work where employees are empowered to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention, and unleash their entrepreneurial spirit.
• We embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.
• We foster an inclusive culture where diverse thinking generates new and valuable opportunities, with a commitment to lifelong learning, growth, and development.
• Our Inclusion & Diversity (I&D) mission is to create an inclusive and equitable environment where people belong, using the power of our diversity to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients.
• Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our success, as innovation requires breakthrough ideas that only come from a diverse workforce empowered to challenge conventional thinking.
• We are curious about science and the advancement of knowledge, find creative ways to approach new challenges, and are driven to make the right choices and be accountable for our actions.
• As an organization centered around what makes us human, we put a big focus on people, wanting colleagues to wake up excited about their day.
• We promise to help colleagues realize the full breadth of their potential, enabling them to do work that has the potential to change their life and improve countless others, and shape a culture that unites and inspires.

Equal Opportunity

• AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.
• We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.
• We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.
• We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.