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Egypt
- Permanent Full-Time
- Posted: 17 Aug 2026
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About the job
Danone MENA is hiring a Medical Brand Manager for its Specialized Nutrition Business in Egypt, based in Cairo
- As a Medical Brand Manager, you will be responsible To develop and drive plans and strategies focusing on specialized nutrition which promotes healthy growth and development of children in the First 1000 Days starting at pregnancy till two years of age and which includes first milk in the ME for Aptamil serving both the business & health agendas.
- Implement key strategies to assure acceleration in the market and set a clear long-term Aptamil strategy driving credibility with medical community.
- Align with all functions to assure the optimal performance and execution such as Consumers marketing, Medical affair, Medical sales force, Countries local marketing, Regulatory, Finance, Supply chain, Sales and HR.
- Operate in highly dynamic and regulated category with complex environment coping with frequent changes in the industry’s requirements and business structures
- Explore and initiate new portfolio expansions through innovations
Key Accountability:
Brand Plans & Executions: 40%
- Develop and drive execution of brand plans for Healthcare professionals.
- Develop communication strategy, campaigns, and toolkits for HCPs
- Develop, align and ensure execution of detailing priority in line with brand plans
- Align with Local marketing teams HCPs activities with tracked KPIs and sampling executions plans
- Work closely with the commercial excellence & country medical marketing teams to ensure proper execution of the medical activities, and proper use of the marketing material by sales forces
- Lead the organization of regional & international scientific symposia & Congresses
- Work closely with consumer marketing to ensure consistency and alignment with Consumerization activity
- Ensure compliance of all medical activities and marketing material with local regulations and the WHO code
- Collaborate with digital marketing team to understand HCPs digital behaviors to build a comprehensive digital strategies, appropriate digital channels and communication platforms tailored to the needs of medical communities
Performance Analysis & Tracking: 20%
- Manage the brand medical marketing budget
- Monitor brand performance (IMS, Market share & Net sales)
- Monitor Aptamil P&L across different clusters
- Monitor competitive activities, plan proactive and develop re-active strategies
- Analyse post campaign results, track ROI of various activities and take actions accordingly
- Coordinate market research activities with S&I team.
- Conduct market pulse visits to ensure generating actionable insights.
Medical Marketing Training (20%)
- Develop, implement and update product training manuals with Medical affairs team
- Ensure country teams working with latest brand support materials and product manuals.
- Support induction of new solution team members with brand understanding at bi-annual induction meetings and within online induction programs
- Support country teams in presenting new materials and brand understanding in cycle meetings
Project & Stakeholder Management (20%)
- Manage independently innovation projects from ideation phase to in-market launch
- Coordinate with global, supply chain, finance & regulatory for timely launch of innovation projects
- Coordinate day to day agency relations
- Liaise with medical affairs, consumer marketing, trade and sales team for standardised execution of brand plans
- Coordinate with global teams on local execution of campaigns based on local markets needs
- Assist in presentation preparation for internal & external stakeholders
Key Performance Indicators:
- IMS Growth with focus on key countries
- Market Share improvement in audited markets
- Net sales Growth
- Brand profitability
- Brand awareness, Brand recommendations and Brand perceptions (HCPs collective KPI)
- Strategic Risks Mitigated
- Timely Achieving brand plan objectives & Projects
- Marketing Events improvement in Net Promoter Score
- Marketing plans within Budget & in line with strategic Scope
About you
To succeed in this role, you should ideally have:
Education and professional experience:
- Bachelor degree in pharmacy, nutrition, or equivalent life science degree
- 3 - 5 years of experience in a marketing role, minimum of 1 year in a brand management role; pharmaceutical/nutrition industry experience is a strong plus
- Experience in operating in a cross-functional setting
- Ability to influence without authority
- Autonomous, proactive and solution-oriented
- Good verbal and written communication skills; strong presentation skills
- Excellent English, and fluent in Arabic
- Fluent in Powerpoint and Excel
- Strategic thinking and strong business acumen
- Agility and flexibility to adapt to changing market and product dynamics swiftly
- Willing to travel frequently to support the MENA countries
Location:
Cairo, Egypt.
Required languages:
Fluency in English & Arabic
Personal skills:
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Excellent presentation skills - written, verbal, and visual.
- Project leadership (in a cross-functional environment).
- Good communicator.
- Team player.
- Agile.
- Cultural awareness and understanding.
- Energetic, enthusiastic, curious, and eager to learn.
- Good brand understanding and ability to understand consumers, strong digital aptitude, and ability to work with people at all levels of the organization.
- Entrepreneurship: Spot and seize business opportunities.
- Customer orientation: Enable the company to serve the consumer.
Mobility:
Candidates should be willing to travel within the region or outside the region with Danone in the next 3 to 4 years if such an opportunity arises and contributes to their professional development.
Danone Values:
Candidates are encouraged to embrace Danone's core values: Humanism, Openness, Proximity, and Enthusiasm.
About Danone
About Danone
Danone is a world-leading food company operating in three business divisions: Fresh Dairy Products, Specialized Nutrition, and Waters.
Danone’s mission is Bringing health through food to as many people as possible and we want to invite people to join the movement for a healthier world. We recognize the power people have in impacting the world through their daily choices. Each time we eat and drink, we vote for the world we want to live in. We believe a healthy body needs healthy food. And healthy food needs a healthy planet and this is what our new signature One Planet One Health embodies.
What we offer
Working in Danone MENA is one of the best places to build a strong career through everyday learning, empowerment, and team collaboration in an open culture & environment. Our culture fosters autonomy and empowerment, where your everyday can be a fresh adventure - full of new possibilities and opportunities for your development.
Danone MENA doesn’t just welcome what makes you unique, we value it. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where all hires to our team are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We recruit, employ, train, and promote regardless of race, color, religion, disability, sex, national origin, age, genetic characteristic, or any other protected status. Faithful to our values of openness and humanism, all of our employees share in the commitment to engage one another with dignity and respect.
- Global exposure and growth opportunities.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- A culture that celebrates diversity, inclusion, and purpose.
- Access to learning programs and development opportunities.
What’s Next?
- If you are the Medical Brand Manager we are looking for, click on "apply" now before August the 26th
- Closing Date: August 26th, 2026
- For more information about Danone, its people, and its business, please visit www.danone.com
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