Job Title: Consultant
Location: Tokyo
Location type: Hybrid
Who we are…
Deallus is a global management consulting firm specialized in life sciences and with a legacy in competitive intelligence. We empower clients to achieve competitive advantage through generation of strategic intelligence and actionable insights. Our strength is unrivalled therapeutic area expertise, deep understanding of our client needs, and proven methodologies to deliver strategic value across the product lifecycle and the broader organization.
Deallus has global staff just short of 100 people, and presence in all major pharmaceutical markets through offices in L.A., New York City, London, Gurugram, Tokyo and Shanghai, and more than 25 languages spoken by Deallus staff. We serve every other top-25 global pharma, and have therapeutic area strength in Oncology, Rare Disease, Vaccines, and other specialty categories, as well as most of the primary care space.
In 2025, GlobalData Healthcare, a leading data and analytics company, acquired Deallus, supporting the company’s growth trajectory and vision to become the world’s trusted source of strategic intelligence in the healthcare industry.
The role…
A Consultant manages the delivery of client project(s), ensuring delivery of the projects are in line with client objectives and expectations as well as the project timelines. Working closely with the Key Account Lead, the Consultant / Snr Consultant serves as the key point of contact for the project, manages the client relationship throughout the term of the project and manages the internal project team.
Consultants will also be members of other teams to support the delivery of projects by conducting research, analysing findings to generate insights and pulling together client deliverables.
What you’ll be doing…
- Develops key project deliverables, such as discreet pieces of (qualitative, quantitative, financial, pharmaco-economic, market access) research, analysis and synthesis
- Using a range of strategic frameworks, conceptualizes complex data into compelling, succinct and actionable insights
- Creates, adheres to, manages, project plan and budget, incl. key milestones, delivery timelines, review sessions, with an eye for detail, available capacity and for potential issues and risks
- Scopes out team role(s) and successfully delivers on own such role (including for example, project manager, financial/ quant analyst, secondary and primary research champions)
- Manages team in executing client project(s), addresses performance concerns effectively and early on
- Ensures high quality of deliverables, e.g., through four-eye principle, check list or formal quality control process
- Conducts project reviews and provides / seeks formal feedback at the close of every project (or at contract renewal for monitoring projects) to ensure key learnings from the project are captured
- Interacts with defined client teams in communicating progress, questions / hypotheses / conclusions, in addressing any questions and concerns, and in flagging issues as needed
- Ensures client satisfaction throughout the term of the project
- Takes on practice leadership role, e.g., related to recruiting, knowledge management, pursuit leadership
- Supports local team members with Business Development activities, client meetings, sales pitches and proposal development.
What we’re looking for…
- Familiarity, and in-market experience, with the pharmaceutical market, through recent employment with industry (Pharma/Biotech) or Healthcare consulting firm
- Advanced degree in medicine/ life sciences from leading global faculty (Master’s/Ph.D. preferred)
- Consultant level: 3+ years of relevant professional experience
- Fluency in both English and Japanese
- Track record of professional success, with successive stages of advancement/ promotion
- Proven Leadership skills (functional team, client team, etc.)
- Experience in pharma competitive intelligence, market landscapes, opportunity assessments, forecasting (quant qual research methods as well as topics such as market access)
- Strong knowledge and hands-on primary and secondary research experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including competitive intelligence, issue monitoring and coverage of industry conferences, primary C.I., deep dives, workshops, scenario planning, and synthesis/ insight generation
- Strong interpersonal skills, able to build relationships both internally and externally at all levels
- Excellent communication skills, to include writing and presentation skills
- Possesses a strong understanding of the life sciences / pharma industry, to include recent trends, developments and current challenges.
- Ability and willingness to travel internationally
In addition to a rewarding career, we support our GlobalData Heathcare colleagues with a range of benefits across health, finances, fitness, travel, tech and more. To find out more about the roles and benefits on offer in your region, visit careers.globaldata.com
GlobalData Healthcare believes strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. GlobalData Healthcare is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.
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