Global Compliance Specialist (temporary)

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.

This is a maternity cover position, running from July 2026 to July 2027.

We welcome applications from professionals at both Specialist and Senior Specialist level. The role will be tailored accordingly depending on the candidate’s experience and seniority.

A Senior Specialist, SV Compliance will collaborate closely with the Head of SV, Senior Managers, Supervisors/Managers, and Specialists across global functions as well as the EMEA region to ensure that Santen Safety Vigilance (SV) consistently meets global standards, policies, and procedures related to safety vigilance.

What you will do

• Provides training to concerned persons based on the training plan and managing training, documentation and archive documents according to prevailing standards
• Supports in the procedures of global pharmacovigilance operations such as Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs), internal business practices or working instructions
• Performs regulatory intelligence within designated area
• Performs safety variation for labeling changes
• Supports as a backup for participation in processes involving the collection, processing, review, and distribution of adverse event information related to the development and marketed Santen products  
• Supports PSUR preparation and QCs  
• Supports audits and inspections. Performs CAPA management in Santen's Quality Management System (QMS)
• Supports activities related to Santen Pharmacovigilance System Master File (PSMF)
• Supports oversight of the network for Local Persons Responsible for Pharmacovigilance (LPPVs) including documentation and achieving documents

What you will bring to the role

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Life Sciences discipline 
• With first experience within the pharmaceutical industry
• English: Fluent, Finnish: Native

Nice to have:

• Direct experience in a safety vigilance/pharmacovigilance environment within the pharmaceutical industry 
• Good understanding of EU GVP
• Good understanding of PV operations, including case management processes
• Good understanding of post-marketing safety requirements

What we offer:

• Competitive Salary: A market‑aligned base salary starting from €37 491,00 - €51 550,00 depending on experience and location.

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.