Junior Manager

Company Description

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.

Job Description

In your new role as Junior Manager (m/f/d) Market Access, Pricing & Public Affairs (DACH) you support the development and implementation of pricing and market access strategies to ensure optimal reimbursement and pricing for Santen's products across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

This role works closely with the Senior Manager P&MA DACH, and cross-functional teams (Marketing & Medical Affairs) to contribute to successful product launches, policy monitoring, and stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

Key responsibilities

Market Access

• Contribute to the development and implementation of national market access strategies for priority products in the DACH cluster, considering EMEA market access strategies, brand plans and stakeholder needs
• Identify market access hurdles in the DACH cluster, and support the development and implementation strategies to overcome them
• Support the AD, Market Access (DACH) in the entire HTA process for the entire Santen portfolio in the DACH cluster

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate DACH-specific pricing and market access requirements (e.g., study design, endpoints, statistical analyses for best possible market access) into commercial strategies

• Assist with product launches and ensure market access via HTA pathways, pricing strategies

• Analyze and monitor indication-specific market conditions
• Prepare and manage submissions to public formularies at local, regional and/or hospital level ensuring appropriate access for Santen products

Price management

• Support and coordinate operational pricing activities with health care authorities and external stakeholders
• Analyze pricing trends and regulatory changes
• Coordinate pricing data and reporting with the EMEA Pricing team

Public Affairs

• Serve as a contact person for market access and policy topics for internal and external stakeholders
• Monitor regulatory changes and assess potential implications for Santen portfolio

Experiences required

Essential

• First professional experience (approx. 1–3 years) in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry, preferably in Market Access, Pricing, or Public Affairs
• Basic knowledge of pricing and market access mechanisms and regulations in Germany and/or Austria and Switzerland, with willingness to deepen expertise
• Understanding of market access stakeholders, their perspectives, and decision-making processes.
• Initial experience in supporting the development and coordination of key pricing and market access documents (e.g., HTA dossiers, G-BA consultation requests, or government consultation documents) under guidance.

Desirable

• Exposure to ophthalmology, medical devices, or specialty pharmaceuticals
• Experience supporting new product launches or life-cycle management projects
• Familiarity with generic competition or collaboration with patient association groups

Functional & Technical competencies required

• Experience in market access, pricing and reimbursement roles within the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry in the DACH region
• Familiarity with the healthcare systems, pricing regulations, and reimbursement processes in at least one of the DACH countries
• Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills
• Good communication and presentation skills; able to liaise effectively across teams.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams

Education

University degree (preferably Master degree) in healthcare related studies or in science and/or business-related discipline

Languages

Very good German (min. C1) and good English written and spoken

Additional Information

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.