Quality Assurance (GxP) Careers in Japan: What 89 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.

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55%
33%

What Gets You In

  • 1-2 years of experience

    2

  • 3-4 years of experience

    20

  • 5-9 years of experience

    24

  • 10+ years of experience

    3

12%

51% day-to-day or above

  • Pharmacist licence (薬剤師) 36%

  • Quality Assurance

    75%

  • GMP

    63%

  • Medical Devices

    34%

  • Clinical Trials

    26%

  • Regulatory Affairs

    18%

  • Excel

    17%

  • Project Management

    17%

  • PowerPoint

    13%

89 postings

Levels by Experience

1–4 years

14%

50% day-to-day or above

  • Pharmacist licence (薬剤師) 41%

22 postings

5+ years

15%

74% day-to-day or above

  • Pharmacist licence (薬剤師) 26%

  • Stakeholder Management 19% (+19)

  • Quality Assurance 81% (+17)

  • Data Analysis 15% (+15)

  • PowerPoint 15% (+10)

27 postings

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Quality Assurance (GxP) career ladder?

A level-by-level summary of what live Quality Assurance (GxP) 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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