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Senior Director, Life Sciences Strategy - Japan (APAC)

Causaly

Causaly

Sales & Business Development
Japan
Posted on Jan 8, 2025

About us:

Founded in 2018, Causaly accelerates how humans acquire knowledge and develop insights in Biomedicine. We enable researchers and decision-makers to discover evidence from millions of academic publications, clinical trials, regulatory documents, patents and other data sources… in minutes.

Using our AI technology, we are developing the world’s biggest knowledge platform in Biomedicine powered by a high-precision Knowledge Graph.

We work with some of the world's largest biopharma companies and institutions on use cases spanning Drug Discovery, Safety and Competitive Intelligence. You can read more about how we accelerate knowledge acquisition and improve decision making in our blog posts here: Blog - Causaly

We are backed by top VCs including ICONIQ, Index Ventures, Pentech and Marathon.

About the Role:

In this role, you will be a key contributor to Causaly’s revenue growth while inspiring change as a market game-changer. Reporting directly to our Chief Operating Officer you will work cross-functionally to build customer value and drive new business. You will be pivotal to understand our client’s strategy, relate to the executive level and navigate our resources and capabilities to the “best fit”.

What you will do:

  • Become a trusted advisor in the AI Pharma sector to existing and target Causaly clients
  • Leverage your existing industry network to open early discussions and get critical customer insights
  • Establish relationships at senior call points in Top Pharma and work to develop and qualify interest in use cases and business challenges that Causaly can address
  • Drive new business for Causaly Cloud platform solution, selling into the existing client base and prospective new clients across Japan/APAC focused on the Top 30 clients
  • Strategically understand the needs, limits, must haves, and key landmines in the accounts and guide the go to market teams in execution
  • Develop an understanding of assigned clients’ strategic goals, decision-making structure, key influencers, and other objectives while mapping Causaly impact through both today’s offerings and tomorrow’s potential
  • Liaise with Product to refine Product Market Messaging and contribute customer and market feedback about future business opportunities and current product experience.
  • Become a champion for the Causaly Platform with ability to deeply discuss the value across any given product in the solution.
  • Strategically orchestrate resources both internally and externally throughout the sales process
  • Accurately communicate account status to executive Causaly management