Santen is a specialized company with a proud 130-year heritage focused exclusively on eye health. As a Japan-originated, global company with our footprint in over 60 countries and regions, our mission is to provide essential and significant value to patients and society through our products and services created from our expertise in ophthalmology and from the patient’s perspective.

Join Santen as a Key Account Manager – Ophthalmology with focus on Front-of-the-eye

Are you passionate about making a meaningful impact in the healthcare sector? At Santen, we are committed to advancing eye care and improving the quality of life for patients worldwide. As a Pharmaceutical Representative, you will embody Santen’s philosophy and marketing vision, acting as a trusted partner to clinic-based ophthalmologists and selected resident eye doctors.

What you will do

• Present the benefits of Santen’s innovative products with a focus on acquiring new prescribers and increasing prescription volume in clinics.
• Serve as the key point of contact at ophthalmology conferences and events.
• Organize and lead training sessions to educate and support healthcare professionals.
• Take full responsibility for achieving sales targets within your designated region.

If you’re driven, customer-focused, and eager to contribute to a company that values integrity, innovation, and collaboration and you are also great at doing analysis — we’d love to hear from you.

What you will bring to the role

• Completed training, qualifying to work as pharmaceutical representative or certified pharmaceutical representative (Pharmareferentenprüfung)
• Field experience in the pharmaceutical/clinic sector or comparable sales experience
• German and English spoken and written (min. C1)

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Sales activities                    60 %
• Initiatives                             25 %
• Expertise                               5 %
• Sales techniques                   5 %
• Work organisation                  5 %

Grow your career at Santen

A career at Santen is an opportunity to make a difference. We aspire to contribute to the realization of “Happiness with Vision” by providing eye health products and services to patients, consumers, and medical professionals around the world. Guided by our CORE PRINCIPLE, “Tenki ni sanyo suru”, Santen is engaged in the global research & development, manufacturing, and sales and marketing of pharmaceutical products in ophthalmology. We have team members around the world using their diverse talents to unlock new modalities and drive innovations for patient outcomes, education and treatment. At Santen, we believe in empowering all our team members with flexible ways of working and a highly inclusive work environment. 

The Santen Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building diverse teams and ensuring a safe and inclusive physical and virtual workplace for every one of our team members. All employment decisions are based on business needs, role requirements and individual qualifications regardless of race, color, ethnicity, national origin/ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/ expression, age, disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.  

If you require any kind of accommodation during our recruitment process, please let the recruiter from our team know.