Jobs in Japan
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Jobs in Japan
Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
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Johnson & JohnsonAbiomed Japan K.K. is recruiting for a Senior Product Marketing Specialist, Cardiology, located at J-One Tower. Abiomed provides Impella in Japan, a catheter-based percutaneous Ventricular Assist Device (pVAD) that can be inserted percutaneously and transvascularly, with the aim of saving patients’ lives and supporting recovery of their native heart function. Impella received regulatory approval in September 2016 and has been used clinically in Japan since October 2017. It is currently introduced at approximately 280 hospitals nationwide and has been used in more than 20,000 cases as of the end of July 2026. Impella Therapy is a relatively new treatment concept, and there is a continued need to further promote appropriate use and market penetration. In this role, a Senior Product Marketing Specialist will develop and execute marketing strategies based on physician insights, while leading market creation and penetration efforts to bring Impella to more patients. We are looking for an individual who can identify essential customer challenges, think beyond precedents and existing success models, engage internal and external stakeholders, and commit to delivering results. Key responsibilities include developing and executing marketing strategies for Impella in cardiology, leading initiatives to promote appropriate use and expand the market; identifying market opportunities, unmet needs, and barriers to therapy penetration based on customer insights; planning and executing academic congress activities, seminars, Advisory Boards, and other programs, and developing messaging and content that support physician behavior change; collaborating with Sales, Health Care Solutions, Education, and other related functions to drive cross-functional activities aimed at solving customer challenges; contributing to further penetration of Impella Therapy by identifying new market opportunities and discovering and developing future KOLs; building strategic hypotheses from a zero-based perspective and translating them into execution plans; continuously refining the Go-to-Market strategy, value proposition, and key messages through feedback from internal stakeholders and healthcare professionals; and taking ownership, building hypotheses even in uncertain situations, engaging others, and committing to delivering results through to completion.
- Bachelor’s degree - Marketing experience in the medical device or healthcare industry - Ability to identify essential challenges and unmet needs - Zero-based thinking and the ability to develop strategies from new perspectives without being constrained by precedents - Ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and engage others to deliver outcomes - Execution capability with strong ownership and commitment to delivering results through to completion - Intermediate business-level English proficiency, with TOEIC 800 or above as a guideline
- Experience in the cardiology field - Product Marketing experience - Experience in launching new markets or new therapies, Market Development, or cross-functional project leadership
