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About the Role

This role serves as a senior individual contributor driving launch and marketing excellence across all three business units in Japan. The role independently leads high-priority, cross-functional initiatives, translates enterprise priorities into practical plans, and delivers measurable outcomes through influence rather than formal authority.

Responsibilities

Drive launch readiness for prioritized brands
Facilitate cross-functional discussions and collaboration throughout launch preparation
Assess launch status using agreed dashboards, milestones, and KPIs, ensuring that risks, gaps, and decisions are clearly surfaced
Partner with cross-functional teams to define solutions, clarify ownership, and drive timely resolution of emerging issues
Provide independent, strategic recommendations to brand and business leaders to strengthen launch readiness and execution
Advance launch learning and best-practice sharing
Capture and synthesize lessons from launches and priority initiatives
Translate insights into practical frameworks, tools, and recommendations that can be applied across brands and business units
Create forums and mechanisms that enable consistent sharing and adoption of relevant launch best practices
Strengthen organizational and individual marketing capabilities
Independently lead enterprise priorities that strengthen organizational and individual marketing capabilities
Diagnose capability gaps using stakeholder input, business needs, and available data, then design fit-for-purpose interventions
Manage complex workstreams end to end, including strategy, stakeholder alignment, planning, execution, measurement, and continuous improvement
Partner with business-unit leaders, Marketing Directors, cross-functional partners, and regional colleagues to ensure relevance, adoption, and measurable impact
Shape strategy and deliver results through influence
Proactively identify unmet needs, emerging risks, and opportunities across Launch Excellence and Marketing Excellence
Develop clear recommendations, challenge assumptions constructively, and convert ambiguity into structured action plans
Make sound decisions within the scope of responsibility, escalate appropriately, and maintain momentum with limited supervision
Demonstrate ownership for outcomes, not only activities, and communicate progress, trade-offs, and impact clearly to senior stakeholders

Requirements

Five years or more of pharmaceutical business experience in a pharmaceutical or biotechnology company, or relevant pharmaceutical launch consulting experience
Successful track record in marketing and the launch of new products
Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives without direct reporting authority
Experience developing strategic recommendations and translating them into practical execution plans and results
Experience working with senior stakeholders in Japan; regional or global collaboration experience is preferred
Japanese: Business level
English: Working proficiency, with the ability to participate in business discussions and communicate effectively with regional colleagues

Skills

Brand Marketing
Brand Positioning Strategy
Business Alignment
Business Storytelling
Business Valuations
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Customer Intelligence
Data Analysis
Data-Driven Decision Making
Digital Strategy
Execution Focus
Financial Analysis
Go-to-Market Strategies
Industry Analysis
Market Research
Negotiation
Organizing
Problem Solving
Product Development Lifecycle
Product Portfolio Management
Product Strategies
Program Management
Strategic Thinking
Tactical Planning
Technical Credibility
Highly strategic, with the ability to connect enterprise priorities, customer and business needs, and execution
Strong ownership and self-direction; able to define the path forward, act proactively, and deliver results with limited supervision
Ability to influence, align, and mobilize stakeholders across multiple functions and organizational levels in Japan and the region
Structured and organized, with strong program and project management discipline
Ability to solve difficult and ambiguous problems using critical thinking, data, and sound judgment
Strong facilitation, communication, and business storytelling skills
Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
Learning agility and openness to feedback, with the ability to continuously refine strategies, tools, and ways of working

Location

Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

About the Company

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com.
As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.
Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.
Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.
Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine