Regional Marketing Manager – Myopia (EMEA) - 12 months

As EMEA Myopia Marketing Manager, you will play a key role in shaping and launching Santen’s most significant product to date, a low-dose atropine treatment for pediatric myopia. This is a unique opportunity to help establish a new therapeutic area and drive strategic growth across the region.

What You Will Do

• Lead the execution of the product launch strategy, contributing to Santen’s ambition to become the EMEA leader in myopia treatment.

• Co-develop and implement the EMEA strategic brand plan, ensuring alignment with cross-functional partners and country-level priorities.

• Drive the preparation and rollout of brand campaigns, ensuring alignment with medico-regulatory requirements and commercial goals.

• Manage competitive intelligence efforts to proactively respond to market dynamics and competitor actions.

• Chair regular cross-functional brand meetings to align and accelerate brand performance across sales, marketing, medical, and market access.

• Support affiliate teams with tailored marketing materials, insights, and best practices to maximize local market impact.

• Plan and execute key congresses and external events, ensuring high visibility and engagement for the product and the Santen brand.

• Define and monitor performance KPIs across tactics, ensuring data-driven adjustments to optimize effectiveness and ROI.

• Lead collaboration with agencies for campaign development, creative execution, and logistics, raising the bar for external impact and innovation.

Qualifications

What You Will Bring to the Role

• Proven experience (3–5 years) in pharmaceutical or healthcare marketing at a regional or global level, ideally with launch experience.

• University degree or equivalent in science and/or business / Marketing or MBA qualification/s

• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute brand plans, including cross-functional leadership and stakeholder alignment.

• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to interpret commercial data, assess trends, and translate insights into action.

• Deep understanding of customer and market insights, with a passion for addressing unmet patient and healthcare professional needs.

• Exceptional communication and influencing skills, capable of engaging diverse internal teams and external stakeholders.

• Experience managing external vendors and agencies (creative, medical communications), including briefing and performance evaluation.

• High level of creativity, resourcefulness, and a solution-oriented mindset to drive differentiation in a competitive landscape.

• Willingness to travel across EMEA (up to 30%) and flexibility to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

• Proficiency in English (spoken and written); 

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.

About the Company

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.