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.

We are now looking for a Surgical Partner to join our Nordics team for Sweden and Finland.

The purpose of the role is to:

• Ensure sustainable adoption of our PRESERFLO® MicroShunt among those carefully selected users and promoters, by providing state-of-the-art surgical training and appropriate follow-up.
• Establish PRESERLFLO® MicroShunt as the surgical treatment of reference for all glaucoma surgeons.
• Actively drive the development of our Surgical Team & capabilities locally, but also enabling fruitful collaboration with the team in charge of our glaucoma Rx franchise.

What you will do:

• Identify and build up new accounts in surgical glaucoma.
• Conduct and/or support local training with regards to glaucoma drainage surgery.
• Initiate and develop sustainable relationship with key opinion leaders across your territory.
• Closely collaborate with Santen Pricing & Market-Access Team to maximize the MicroShunt potential in your territory and across the EMEA region. 
• Develop innovative and efficient acquisition plans on account level to ensure sustainable business development. 
• Provide technical expertise for questions, issues or requirements related to product portfolio responsibilities;

What you will bring to the role:

• Experience on hospital sales/Key Account Management, previous industry sales experience and Operating room training / supporting the use of new technologies are preferred. 
• Experience in Ophthalmology is desirable but not essential
• Degree in health or business related subject or equivalent qualification
• Experience in using market and clinical knowledge to identify opportunities for growing the business. 
• Proven track record of strong cross cultural communication, networking and facilitation skills
• Ability to manage their own work and very strong self leadership skills
• Willingness and ability to travel approx. 60% of the working time.

Ready to make a difference?  

Apply today and help us shape the future of eye health. 

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.