Employee breakdown
Research & Development / IT:
25%
Operations
16%
Medical Affairs
7%
Pharma
1%
Marketing
5%
Business
28%
Finance
11%
Quality & Regulatory Affairs
4%
Human Resources
3%
Echosens
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, Connected Objects, Health, Pharmaceutical / Biotech, SaaS / Cloud Services, Software
Paris, Créteil
Overview
At Echosens, our teams are driven by the same purpose: helping healthcare professionals everywhere assess, diagnose, and treat chronic liver diseases for easier, quicker, and more efficient patient management.
R&D, Engineering, Sales Management, Operations, Maintenance, and Support: each team and each member provides their own contribution to the continuous development of our activity, and the combination of different profiles and skill sets is our greatest asset.
Working at Echosens means combining our talents in an inclusive and innovative environment to improve health and well-being for all.
In Figures
25%
employees promoted in 2021
Business Team
The Business Team is in charge of marketing all our solutions.
Whether through direct sales or a large network of distributors, our Sales Team serves more than 100 countries and has helped sell and set up more than 7,200 FibroScan® devices worldwide.
They are more than just salespeople: every day, they build on their technical expertise on our products and train healthcare professionals on their use. They cultivate a trusting relationship with clients and partners and share a common goal: ensuring holistic liver healthcare for everyone, everywhere.
“In 2008, I worked in technical sales at Echosens in Spain. I now work as a Sales Director with a dynamic and agile team in Europe and Australia. Together, we want to make livers heard around the world!”
Camille, Vice Président Commercial
“At Echosens, the value that I hold dear is Commitment. People are invested and passionate. There is a desire to carry out projects with a common goal and each person brings his or her own personality to the table.”
Cédric, Sales Administration Deputy Manager
SWAT Team
The SWAT Team is in charge of developing end-user software for Echosens embedded products.
Through its wide array of activities, the team has developed technical skills in C++, C#, JavaScript, and Python. Best supporting healthcare staff while providing sustainable and testable solutions is at the heart of our work. Our profiles are varied – from Developers to Product Owners, without forgetting Testers and DevOps –, but we share the same values: to offer a reliable IT solution to users and patients.
“What I love about being a Lead Developer is designing and rolling out innovative algorithms for our future medical devices as a team, in order to support physicians in their practice and improve patients' lives. ”
Nicolas, Lead Developer
Supply Chain Team
The Supply Chain Team collaborates internally across the board with all Echosens departments as well as externally with all suppliers.
We are a vital intermediary between Sales, Production, and Stocks on one side and Customer Service and transporters on the other, and we bring a clear vision and understanding of multiple markets. We are involved throughout the whole value chain, from management and forecasts to customer shipping. We have a range of complementary profiles to ensure we can deal with current and future problems.
“The supply chain is crucial for the development of our operations. We are at the centre of everything: R&D, industry, quality, continuous improvement, customers, and distributors. It is this daily diversity that I love.”
Jérémy, Supply Chain manager
Medical Affairs Team
The Medical Affairs Team is in charge of supporting clinical excellence at Echosens.
Building on an international team of clinical researchers and application engineers, our main purpose is to contribute to innovative developments for FibroScan® solutions while meeting regulatory requirements. We are also involved in developing on-the-ground training offers for our distributors and users. This shared clinical expertise leads to a shared goal today: using relevant clinical data to support healthcare professionals in their use of FibroScan® for patients.
“Since 2017, I have been able to contribute to the reputation of FibroScan® in clinical use by working alongside reputable experts on international scientific projects with exciting clinical topics with the end patient in mind. ”
Anne, Medical Affairs Manager
Cloud Team
The Cloud Team develops digital solutions and connected services to enrich the Echosens portfolio around FibroScan®.
We are experts in web tech and take pride in agile methodology with a view to developing digital platforms that will connect FibroScan® to the outside world, such as in hospital infrastructure and patient management programmes. We also collect data that allows us to develop new algorithms to identify at-risk patients and improve predictability for liver diseases.
“Putting innovation and the Cloud at the service of a digital health product offering design to advance the management of liver diseases, allows us to be constantly enriched both technically, and on a human level.”
Sébastien, Software Architect
Marketing Team
Within the Marketing department, the Product Management team is responsible for identifying market opportunities and defining the features needed to address them. We collaborate with cross-functional project teams to achieve a rich and challenging innovation
“I joined Echosens a year ago for its innovations in liver health. When I arrived, I was delighted by the quality of the onboarding: training, welcome and expertise of the teams enabled me to get into action quickly.”
Francesca, Global Product Director
The Project Management Office
The PMO (Project Management Office) team manages product development and evolution projects in collaboration with the R&D and cross-functional teams. At the heart of the projects, we are responsible for drawing up plans, planning and coordinating the actions required to complete them. Working with internal R&D teams, marketing, clinical affairs, quality and regulatory affairs, industrialization, etc., we develop strategies: defining needs, identifying solutions and optimizing schedules to ensure that projects are completed on time and with the expected level of quality.
“As a Project Manager, I am passionate about the variety of subjects and the diversity of the teams I work with. No two days are alike. The team has a 360° view of projects: from idea to launch.”
Agnès, Project Manager
Purchasing Team
The Purchasing function is a strategic and key activity within Echosens. It contributes to maintaining production, optimizing and managing costs in order to guarantee the availability of components. The department works closely with other departments in the company such as R&D, Supply Chain, Accounting, Finance and Industrialization to ensure that needs are met in an efficient and cost-effective manner. The Purchasing department identifies suppliers and secures the purchasing portfolio. It negotiates pricing conditions, contract management, supervision of supplier relations in order to best participate in the company's growth.
“At Echosens, I manage all purchases related to our medical devices, which allows me to be in contact with many departments. I guarantee the security of the purchasing portfolio, and find agreements that benefit everyone”
Charlène, Purchasing Manager