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Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
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Johnson & JohnsonThe Senior Manager, Health Care Compliance (HCC), Innovative Medicine R&D – Japan & Korea is the senior compliance adviser and accountable HCC lead for Innovative Medicine Research & Development activities across the two-country cluster. The role provides visible, independent and risk-based leadership that enables ethical, patient-centric and compliant execution of clinical development, External Scientific Innovation and related scientific activities. Working across two distinct legal, regulatory, industry-code and cultural environments, the position partners with senior R&D leaders and regional and global stakeholders to anticipate, assess and mitigate HCC risks; convert complex requirements into practical decision pathways; strengthen business risk acumen; and sustain effective compliance programmes in both markets. The role also provides leadership beyond the cluster through selected APAC and global initiatives, helping scale consistent approaches, insights and capabilities across the region.
- Bachelor’s degree in law, business, finance, life sciences, data analytics, compliance or a related discipline; an advanced degree or relevant professional certification is preferred. - Typically at least 8 years of relevant experience in compliance, legal, audit, risk management, monitoring, clinical operations or the pharmaceutical or life-sciences sector. - Strong understanding of R&D and clinical-development activities and the ability to assess risks across the clinical-study and external-collaboration lifecycle. - Demonstrated knowledge of applicable laws, regulations and pharmaceutical industry codes in Japan and Korea, or the ability to rapidly build and apply expertise across both markets. - Proven success influencing senior stakeholders and translating complex requirements into pragmatic, risk-based solutions in a matrixed multinational environment. - Experience leading significant programmes, cross-functional initiatives or matrix teams; direct people-management experience is advantageous but not essential. - Demonstrated ability to use data analytics and digital tools to identify trends, improve risk insight and strengthen programme effectiveness.
- Business-level fluency in Japanese and English is required; Korean-language capability is strongly preferred. Exceptional candidates with fluency in Korean and English and strong demonstrated capability to operate effectively in Japan may also be considered.
