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](https://medium.com/@peter.gassner/public-benefit-corporation-pbc-486e1e9508a6) (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors. Join us in [transforming the life sciences industry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaPSP8cCSKY&ab_channel=Forbes), 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, , 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