Senior Business Analyst/Design Thinking and Innovation Future of Healthcare and Excellence, Data Sciences Institute, R&D Technology

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will be empowered to develop new digital products, services, and experiences, while simultaneously fostering innovative data, digital and technology culture in R&D to help them drive its own innovation. In this role, you will contribute to our transformative innovation portfolio by leading experiments and discovery workshops to position the company's R&D to catch the next wave.

1. Bachelor's Degree or equivalent.
2. 3-5 or more years of relevant experience as an innovation expert.
3. Experience developing new business models or services at large organizations or Fortune 500 companies.
4. Experience running workshops and comfortable leading multi-day workshops.
5. Ability to establish relationships, operate collaboratively, and always look forward to learning something new.
6. Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team to contribute team's output maximization.
7. Ability to enjoy working with stakeholders and members outside of Japan in different time zones to achieve better results.
8. Requires business-level English language command. (Due to communication or debate required with global teams.)
9. Requires native-level Japanese language command. (Not only in speaking, business writing, and reading.)
10. Good understanding of current, future, and disruptive technologies (AI, Predictive Analytics, Virtual Reality, etc.)
11. Familiarity with regulated systems – general level of understanding of systems validation.
12. Current certification in human-centered design, design thinking, future thinking, strategic foresight, innovation, or a related field