Field Medical Engagement (FME) Lead

As Field Medical Engagement (FME) Lead, you will own the FME strategy and execution in Egypt, ensuring high-quality, compliant scientific engagement and medical support to cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• FME Strategy and Planning: Develop the country FME strategy aligned with Medical Affairs priorities and therapy-area plans. Identify unmet medical needs across therapy areas and integrate field insights with therapy-area leads and the Country Medical Director.
• Field Medical Team Leadership: Lead, coach and develop MSLs/Field Medical Advisors to deliver high-quality scientific engagement and insight generation. Set performance expectations, provide regular feedback and build capability across therapy areas.
• External Scientific Engagement: Oversee one-to-one scientific interactions, advisory boards and scientific meetings with key external experts and other stakeholders, in line with applicable codes and standards.
• Insights and Cross-Functional Partnership: Generate, analyse and communicate field-derived insights to inform medical strategy, brand plans and evidence priorities. Collaborate closely with Medical Affairs, Commercial, Market Access, Regulatory and other functions on integrated strategies and activities.
• Governance, Compliance and Quality: Ensure adherence to company values, policies, SOPs, industry codes and Egyptian regulations. Oversee documentation of interactions, reporting quality and the compliant use of approved CRM and insight-capture tools.
• Capability Building and Training: Identify competency gaps and lead the design and implementation of development plans and training for field medical teams. Support medical and commercial colleagues with scientific and disease-area training.
• Medical Excellence: Build and embed the Medical Excellence framework for field medical activities. Define field KPIs and develop dashboards to track activities, outcomes and impact.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Medical degree such as MD, MBBS or PharmD, or equivalent in Life Sciences.
• Relevant postgraduate medical or clinical training is an advantage.
• Minimum 7–10 years of Medical Affairs experience with significant field-medical leadership or MSL management responsibilities.
• Demonstrated experience in Field Medical Excellence.
• Proven track record in scientific engagement and insight generation.
• Team leadership experience in cross-functional matrix environments; Egypt or similar-market experience strongly preferred.

Key Capabilities and Skills

• Strong leadership and people management skills; ability to motivate, coach and develop field teams.
• Deep understanding of Medical Affairs, field operations and scientific engagement best practices.
• Excellent communication, presentation and influencing skills.
• Strategic, data-driven decision-making with a strong patient-centric mindset.
• High integrity, strong ethics and a robust compliance orientation.
• Fluency in English and Arabic, spoken and written.