Consultant - Tokyo

Consultant / Senior Consultant

About Deallus

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 short of 100 people, and presence in all major pharmaceutical markets through offices in L.A., New York City, London, 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 ins Oncology, Rare Disease, Vaccines, and other specialty categories, as well as most of the primary care space.

Our Mission, Vision & Values

Our vision is to lead the industry in shaping and refining strategies for those striving to advance healthcare and improve patients’ lives.

We do this by applying bespoke, robust methodologies to unearth insights and provide evidence-based recommendations; by building an innovative, passionate, global team with a diverse skillset and deep expertise; and by serving as a trusted thought partner for our clients to help them navigate a dynamic, competitive and complex environment.

Finally, we strive to emulate our values of Collaboration, Curiosity, Passion, Resilience, and a Winning Mindset in everything we do, both for our clients and the way we interact with each other.

We are now looking for a Consultant / Senior Consultant to join our growing team. Specifically, we are looking for someone with prior management consulting experience, particularly in our heritage discipline, competitive intelligence.

Purpose of the Role:

A Consultant / Senior 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 Deallus project team.

Consultants and Senior Consultants will also be members of other teams to support the delivery of projects by conducting research, analyzing findings to generate insights and pulling together client deliverables.

Key Accountabilities:

• Develops key project deliverables, such as discreet pieces of (qualitative, quantitative, financial, pharmaco-economic) 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 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, communications champion)
• Manages small 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

What we’re looking for:

Required

• Familiarity, and in-market experience, with the Japanese pharmaceutical market, through recent employment with Japan-based consulting firm
• Advanced degree in medicine/ life sciences from leading global faculty (Ph.D. preferred)
• Consultant level: 3+ years of relevant professional experience
• Senior Consultant: 4+ years of applicable, recent life science/ pharma consulting experience
• Track record of professional success, with successive stages of advancement/ promotion
• Proven Leadership skills (functional, team, client, team, etc.)

Desirable

• Experience working on Commercial Strategy or Market Access projects
• Strong knowledge and hands-on competitive intelligence experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including issue monitoring and coverage of industry conferences, primary C.I., CI deep dives, workshops, scenario planning, and synthesis/ insight generation
• Depth in one or more of the following therapeutic areas
  • Oncology
  • Neurology
  • Vaccines
  • Immunology
  • Cell & Gene
  • Rare Disease
• Fluency in both English and Japanese
• Publications, conference presentations
• Ability and willingness to travel

Key Technical Skills / Experience:

• Experience successfully managing projects or streams of work within projects.
• Highly proficient in MS Office (to include Excel and PowerPoint).

Key Behavioural Skills:

• Strong interpersonal skills, able to build relationships both internally and externally at all levels.
• Strong interest in working in a truly global environment
• Proven analytical skills.
• Ability to manage difficult conversations with ease
• 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.
• Delegation and people management skills.
• Aligned to Deallus values: Collaboration, Curiosity, Passion, Resilience and Winning Mindset.

Experience:

• Experience: 0 – 1+ years in life science consulting (i.e. biotech / pharma) 
• Degrees: BSc, MSc, MPH or PhD in life sciences or related fields

Languages:

• Native Japanese and Fluent English required