Medical Affairs Careers in Japan: What 113 Job Postings Ask For
Every figure on this page summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, in aggregate, and is shown the same way to every reader. It is not a description of any individual’s career or prospects.
- 113
- 43
- 54%
- 4%
What Gets You In
1-2 years of experience
13
3-4 years of experience
22
5-9 years of experience
23
10+ years of experience
3
11%
74% day-to-day or above
Pharmacist licence (薬剤師) 18%
Physician licence (医師) 13%
Nurse licence (看護師) 5%
Medical Affairs
65%
Clinical Trials
57%
MSL
48%
Stakeholder Management
47%
Oncology
25%
KOL Engagement
21%
Project Management
20%
Market Access
13%
113 postings
Levels by Experience
1–4 years
3%
71% day-to-day or above
Pharmacist licence (薬剤師) 20%
35 postings
5+ years
12%
88% day-to-day or above
Physician licence (医師) 27%
GCP 15% (+15)
Medical Devices 19% (+13)
Regulatory Affairs 19% (+13)
PMDA 12% (+12)
26 postings
Who Is Hiring
All Medical Affairs openings
113 postings from 43 employers, as of 2026-09-22
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Medical Affairs career ladder?
A level-by-level summary of what live Medical Affairs job postings tracked on AirTA ask for. Levels come from job titles (manager, director, senior and so on) and, separately, from the years of experience a posting states. Every figure is a statistic over those postings, refreshed daily.
Where do the numbers come from?
From the job postings AirTA collects from employer career sites and applicant tracking systems. Years of experience, certifications and management experience are read from the posting text; the level is read from the title; pay is the salary the employer stated on the posting. Nothing is estimated for an individual.
Why is there no pay figure at some levels?
A pay band publishes only when at least 30 postings at that level state a salary, and a median only from 10. Senior-level pay is rarely published in Japan, so the honest answer at some levels is no figure rather than a figure borrowed from another level.
What does "candidate for" mean?
Some postings are titled 「マネージャー候補」 or "Manager Candidate": the employer states in the title that the opening is for someone who will grow into that level. The ladder counts those titles as the employer wrote them. It does not predict anyone’s promotion.
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