LIFE SCIENCE × HEALTHCARE

Back to what matters.

We sit beside the person who owns the work in life-science and healthcare companies, and take on the specialist work you can’t hire for or outsource — from meeting materials to data analysis and app development.

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PARTNERSWe’re looking for contract partnersJoin us in hands-on support for life-science companies — any role or background welcome.Register
01  ISSUE
11 yearsof continuous decline in Japan’s MR headcount — a record 6.6% drop in FY2024
64%of managers say their workload is too heavy
62.1%of companies report a severe shortage of people to drive DX

You can’t add headcount, and you can’t hand the work outside. Something else is needed.

Sources: MR Certification Center, MR White Paper 2025; EVeM, Manager Survey 2025; IPA, DX Trends 2024; Persol Research Institute, Survey on Middle Managers’ Workload (2019). Manager and DX talent surveys cover all industries.

02  SERVICE

HerzLeben Sidecar

Hands-on support for life-science teams, by the month

A sidecar rides beside the motorcycle. We attach to the person who owns the work, and take part of it on.

  1. 01Hand over specialist work as it is

    RWD analysis, English reports for headquarters, internal study sessions — without long explanations.

  2. 02Leave a way of working your people can run

    We turn how it’s done into procedures and manuals, so it keeps running when people change.

  3. 03Less overflow into your evenings

    We work evenings and weekends. Managers get back to judgment and review.

How much
Around two days a week, adjusted month by month. We join your meetings as an outside member.
Chat and meetings
Chat any time. Meetings are scheduled on weekdays.
Work
We also work evenings and weekends, and finish urgent requests over the weekend.
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03  WHAT WE TAKE ON

We take on what is needed, as much as is needed. Development is one of these.

  • Project managementPM / PMO, framing the issues, coordinating across departments
  • DocumentsInternal reports, English materials for headquarters, joining meetings
  • Data analysis and evidenceRWD and claims data, health-economic models, statistical analysis plans
  • App developmentDashboards, asking data questions in plain language, automated reporting
  • Procedures and handoverProcedures and manuals, handed over to your staff
04  CASES
CASE 012 weeks

Pharmaceutical company

RWD team

  1. Days 1–2Interviews
  2. Days 3–6Drafting
  3. Days 7–8Team review
  4. Days 9–10Leadership review

Brought a new global process into local operation in time for a leadership review — without the team stopping its day-to-day work.

CASE 021 month

Pharmaceutical company

Marketing team

  1. Week 1Inventory and prototype
  2. Week 2Real data
  3. Week 3Side by side
  4. Week 4Decision

Moved reporting that relied on an outside vendor in-house. It is now used as-is in the regular meeting.

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05

WORKS

Dashboards and plain-language data tools that the work called for — built by us, not outsourced.

DASHBOARDDashboardsPrescribing gaps and case distribution on one screen — BI views rebuilt so the team can keep growing them in-house
TEXT TO SQLAsk your data in plain languageAsk a question; get tables and charts back, with the generated SQL shown so you can check it
KNOWLEDGESearch past documentsAnswers on definitions and assumptions, with the source passage and original document attached
MODELHealth-economic model × sensitivityRun a two-treatment model in the browser and see the effect of changing assumptions on the spot
All WORKS →TRAININGTraining, so your team can keep it goingSo your team can keep growing what we leave behind, we also run corporate training in AI-driven development with Claude Code, using medical data. You can start with a free 2-hour session.See TRAINING →
06  WHY

Know the work.
Do the work.

HerzLeben draws on four settings: data analysis inside a pharmaceutical company, digital transformation for life-science clients at a consulting firm, product rollout at a medical device manufacturer, and clinical practice. From there, we work inside the day-to-day of life-science and healthcare companies.

Depending on the topic, our members and outside specialists form the team — one point of contact from documents through analysis and development to handover.

We know the workClinical, medtech, pharmaWe build it ourselvesFrom analysis to appsWe make it stickWithin your rulesWhere HerzLeben sitsWhere all three overlap,beside your people
07

TIPS

How we build, and what we learn along the way.

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[Claude Code] Turning Visual Checks into Automated Checks, Part 1: Detecting Page Breaks — Measuring White Space by Greyscale Intensity

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08

CONTACT

The first conversation is free — about 30 minutes online, about your work and what is in the way.

Get in touch