Director - Japan Safety Strategy

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $3B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

This Director role requires a deep understanding of the global life sciences safety/Pharmacovigilance operations space and the associated safety applications used to collect, process, report, and determine the safety profile of a pharmaceutical product. This role will be responsible for growing Veeva’s Safety market share in Japan.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with a team of Life Sciences industry and technology A-players, who, together, are bringing the next generation of Safety applications and capabilities to the life sciences industry.

What You’ll Do

• Responsible for growing and sustaining Japan safety market for the Vault safety applications including Safety, Safety.AI, SafetyDocs, and Safety Signal, workbench
• Provide thought leadership and sales support to teams in driving new opportunities in the safety space
• Provide business and technology guidance to the product team in support of new or enhanced features and functionality for our Vault Safety suite
• Develop strategy and messaging for customer adoption of new features and functionality for new and existing customers
• Direct resources across the customer lifecycle from sales to delivery and beyond
• Present at industry conferences, lead webinars, and author articles for industry publications

Requirements

• 5+ years' experience consulting for the safety area of a life sciences company around business processes, organizational design, software applications, and maintaining GVP compliance
• Experience selling software and/or services to life sciences organizations
• Proven ability to innovate across business processes and technology solutions
• Ability to hold strategic conversations and own relationships with heads of safety and IT regarding the safety applications and their use in a safety organization
• Ability to travel for customer meetings and presentations

Nice to Have

• 5+ years in management consulting roles or safety product development strategy roles
• 5+ years of experience working within or for the safety area of large life sciences companies
• Proven track record of thought leadership through industry presentations, publications, or other mechanisms