Danaher
Data Science Consultant – Pharma R&D
Japan · Work style not stated · Full time
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- EmployerDanaher
- LocationJapan
- Work styleWork style not stated
- Employment typeFull time
- Employer posted
The Data Science Consultant – Pharma R&D you will be a key member of our dynamic team, empowered to have a significant impact on the continuous growth of our business. You will work with our partners in biopharma across the entire drug R&D value chain, achieving their vision of AI-driven digitalized precision medicine and CMC. This includes using your scientific and technical knowledge to solve real-world scientific challenges.
This position reports to the Lead Scientific Account Management and is part of Genedata Profiler, located in Tokyo.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
- Play a key role in Genedata Profiler® and Genedata Vico™ implementation projects, as a scientific expert providing consulting, business process analysis, and solution design.
- Scope and execute customer Data Science projects delivering results and presentations that meet the high standards our clients expect.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with customers, serving as their primary contact for scientific and technical matters.
- Partner with Business Account Management to qualify Profiler and Vico opportunities, shape proposals and value stories, support workshops and demonstrations, and expand successful engagements into broader account adoption.
- Bring structured customer evidence back to Product Management, helping distinguish current product capabilities from customer-specific implementation needs and informing reusable Profiler and Vico use cases, roadmap priorities and positioning.
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The essential requirements of the job include:
- PhD or Master’s degree with industry experience in bioinformatics, data science, life sciences, or a closely related scientific discipline.
- Strong experience in biopharma R&D, ideally in translational sciences, working with multi-omics, biomarkers, and clinical data, or CMC analytical, formulation or upstream/downstream process development.
- Proven customer-facing experience, including workshop facilitation, project scoping, stakeholder coordination, and scientific consulting.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex scientific concepts into clear customer value.
- Native Japanese or JLPT N1-level Japanese, with business-level English.
Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:
- Occasional travel to Genedata Headquarters in Europe.
- Occasional travel to the United States.
- Regular travel to customer sites within Japan.
It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python or R.
- Experience in developing AI/ML solutions in biopharma R&D processes, lab automation, or CMC.
- Experience identifying and developing new business opportunities in collaboration with commercial teams.
Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.
For more information, visit www.danaher.com.
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