Topcon Healthcare is the eye health brand of Topcon Corporation (https://topconhealthcare.eu)

Topcon Healthcare sees eye health differently. Our vision is to empower providers with smart and efficient technologies for enhanced patient care. Keeping pace with the ever-changing landscape of the healthcare industry, we offer the latest integrated solutions including advanced multimodal imaging, vendor-neutral data management and ground-breaking remote diagnostic technology. By investing in value-driven innovations, Topcon works to enable people to enjoy good health and a high quality of life.

More recently, to develop the most efficient, pragmatic and state-of-the-art solutions, Topcon formed a new strategic division, Topcon Healthcare Solutions, whose primary objective is to create world-class software solutions for the eye care industry and beyond. The company's products enable the collection and visualization of a wide range of imaging and clinical data while providing quantitative and clinical analysis capabilities.

Topcon’s software gives clinicians access to patient exam data captured from OCTs, Visual Fields, Fundus Cameras, and other Topcon and third-party devices. Topcon leverages its new data management system called Topcon Harmony, where practitioners gain access to both DICOM and non-DICOM information stored in a central, cloud-based environment. Additionally, Topcon now provides an integrated service that connects practitioners to an extensive network of reading services to assist in the management of sight-threatening eye diseases.

The Global Upstream Product Manager for Imaging Devices is responsible for the global Imaging business planning, product feature definition, and lifecycle management with the goal of achieving the strategic objectives and planned revenue/profitability targets defined by the Global Marketing Organization and Topcon Healthcare. Taking a customer-focused approach, the Global Upstream Product Managers actively look to continuously improve their assigned products to meet customer needs today and collect market intelligence to anticipate changing product needs of tomorrow. The Global Upstream Product Manager is expected to be at the center of all activities surrounding the product, including but not limited to: roadmap definition, annual strategy updates, product development planning and validation, product positioning, and lifecycle management.

Core Job Duties:

• Create and implement the long-term product strategy to achieve business goals.
• Provide annual strategy update for assigned products
• Work closely with Product Planning, R&D and Regulatory Affairs to shepherd the product enhancement/new product development process
• Provide marketing deliverables to product development process
• Manage global launch for new products, next generation products, and product enhancements 
• Provide product, pricing, distribution and positioning strategy for assigned products
• Work closely with Downstream Product Managers to provide content for launch messaging, sales training materials, promotional campaign and point of sale collateral materials
• Work closely with the Medical Affairs team and KOLs to gain clinical literature and validation support for applications of assigned products
• Monitor performance trends: Gather market data from all sales organizations and customers world-wide, propose sales targets
• Competitive intelligence: Collect, maintain and disseminate competitive intelligence, about e.g. positioning, selling arguments, clinical research etc.
• Market research: Execute (global) customer surveys, focus groups, etc.

Job Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in engineering, technical or medical degree is required
• 5+ years in related technical field accepted as a substitute for technical degree
• MBA or advanced degree is preferred
• Clinical experience is preferred
• Previous product development and launch experience in complex products and/or product families is required
• Direct experience with ophthalmic product development, and launch is strongly preferred
• Previous experience with imaging devices is preferred
• Excellent oral presentation and written communications skills in english
• Experienced knowledge of spreadsheet financial analysis, word processing and presentation software
• Good analytical skills and ability to manage and work cross-functionally in a multi-cultural environment
• Experienced working in a highly regulated product space required
• Experience working with FDA 510(k) process preferred

Physical Requirements

• Willing to travel over weekends and holidays, US and international travel (30%)

Working Conditions

• Ability to work in a multi-cultural business environment, foreign language skills desirable.
• Remote working environment

What do we offer!

At Topcon we invest in you. We offer you an interesting, international work environment and varied position at a top player in the market. For this position we offer you a reward that, depending on knowledge and experience, can certainly be called excellent.

We are convinced that we have a great opportunity for you within our organization.

Join Topcon

Are you ready for a new challenge and do you recognize yourself in the above profile? We invite you to apply for this position and send your CV with motivation.