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Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
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Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
Vetted companies only. Apply from overseas.
Johnson & JohnsonAt 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. 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. For Launch Excellence, the role rigorously assesses launch readiness, identifies risks and opportunities, and mobilizes cross-functional stakeholders to resolve issues and strengthen execution. For Marketing Excellence, the role evaluates organizational and individual capability needs and designs or delivers targeted solutions that strengthen marketers' strategic and executional capabilities. The role also contributes Japan perspectives to Asia Pacific Launch and Marketing Excellence forums, leverages regional resources and best practices, and helps translate relevant regional priorities into local impact. The role has two core areas of responsibility: Launch Excellence and Marketing Excellence. Across both areas, the Senior Manager is expected to independently lead complex initiatives, influence senior stakeholders, and deliver measurable business and organizational outcomes. For Launch Excellence, the role facilitates cross-functional discussions and collaboration throughout launch preparation; assesses launch status using agreed dashboards, milestones, and KPIs, ensuring that risks, gaps, and decisions are clearly surfaced; partners with cross-functional teams to define solutions, clarify ownership, and drive timely resolution of emerging issues; and provides independent, strategic recommendations to brand and business leaders to strengthen launch readiness and execution. The role captures and synthesizes lessons from launches and priority initiatives, translates insights into practical frameworks, tools, and recommendations that can be applied across brands and business units, and creates forums and mechanisms that enable consistent sharing and adoption of relevant launch best practices. For Marketing Excellence, the role independently leads enterprise priorities that strengthen organizational and individual marketing capabilities; diagnoses capability gaps using stakeholder input, business needs, and available data, then designs fit-for-purpose interventions; manages complex workstreams end to end, including strategy, stakeholder alignment, planning, execution, measurement, and continuous improvement; and partners with business-unit leaders, Marketing Directors, cross-functional partners, and regional colleagues to ensure relevance, adoption, and measurable impact. Across both areas, the role proactively identifies unmet needs, emerging risks, and opportunities; develops clear recommendations, challenges assumptions constructively, and converts ambiguity into structured action plans; makes sound decisions within the scope of responsibility, escalates appropriately, and maintains momentum with limited supervision; and demonstrates ownership for outcomes, not only activities, communicating progress, trade-offs, and impact clearly to senior stakeholders.
- 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. - Japanese: Business level. - English: Working proficiency, with the ability to participate in business discussions and communicate effectively with regional colleagues.
- 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.
