# Sr. Business Development Manager

Business Development Manager & Technical Expert | Biopharma & Synthetic Biology Location: Japan A growing life sciences organisation is seeking a commercially minded Business Development Manager to drive strategic growth across the biotechnology and biopharmaceutical sectors in Japan. This is a hybrid technical-commercial role focused on building industry partnerships, developing high-value opportunities, and supporting customers with complex scientific solutions across drug discovery, antibody development, cell therapy, and synthetic biology. Key Responsibilities Identify, develop, and close strategic business opportunities with pharmaceutical, biotech, academic, and research organisations.Build and manage long-term customer, collaborator, and partner relationships across Japan.Lead commercial negotiations, partnership discussions, and contract execution.Act as a technical advisor, supporting customer engagement and solution development.Develop and maintain a strong pipeline of opportunities while providing market intelligence and customer insights.Collaborate with sales, marketing, scientific, and operational stakeholders to drive business growth and market penetration.Requiremen

- **Id**: 3853636
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/planet-pharma-sr-business-development-manager>
- **Role**: Management
- **Role family**: Management
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Tokyo, Japan
- **Countries**: JP
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T10:08:19Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2141
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Synthetic Biology

## Company

- **Id**: 4467183
- **Name**: Planet Pharma
- **Domain**: planet-pharma.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/planet-pharma>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

## Technologies

- **Antibody Engineering** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Japan** — Iso: JP; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T05:00:54Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 31
- **Reasons**: conf:0, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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