Medical Affairs Director, EMEA
Listed on 2026-03-02
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Healthcare
Healthcare Management, Healthcare Administration
Drive medical excellence. Shape strategy. Elevate impact across a region.
We’reseeking asenior medical leadertoown and operationalize the regional medical strategy across EMEA—ensuring our science iscredible, clinically relevant, and compliantly executed from
Global strategy to
CBU impact. You will be the medical authority for the Zone: steward of the scientific narrative, guardian of medical governance, and catalyst forhighqualityevidence and external engagement.
You will translate innovation into clinical value, shaping practice and policy across diverse health systems while enabling CBUs to delivergoldstandardmedical excellenceat the point of care.
Your Mission
Define and execute EMEA medical strategy aligned to Global priorities; ensure country ‑ level adaptation and rigorous governance.
Elevate external scientific credibility through prioritized congress presence, peer ‑ reviewed publications, high ‑ quality scientific exchange, and guideline ‑ oriented activities.
Advance evidence generation addressing clinically meaningful gaps and supporting clinical practice, access, and policy.
Strengthen medical governance across Global–Zone–CBU interfaces to reduce risk, duplication, and ambiguity.
Build a high ‑ performing medical community of practice that shares playbooks, accelerates launches, and raises the bar on execution quality.
Job responsibilities
Scientific & Medical Strategy Ownership
Own the Zone medical strategy for the nutrition portfolio; define thediseaseareascientific narrative, value story, and claims guardrails in alignment with Global.
Translate strategy intocountryspecificmedical plans including clear objectives, external engagement roadmaps, evidence priorities, and congress/publication plans.
Chaircrossfunctional Medical Strategy Boards to ensure clinical relevance of brand strategy, messaging consistency, and compliant activation.
2) Evidence Generation & Publications
Co-definethe regional evidence roadmap to address prioritized data gaps and inform guidelines, clinical practice, and access.
Oversee publication planning and execution with timely,high quality, and ethical authorship practices.
Partner with biostatistics, market access, and safety to ensure methodological rigor, patient relevance, andriskbenefitclarity.
3) External Scientific Leadership & Medical Education
Set the KOL/Thought Leader strategy: identification, mapping, engagementobjectives, and compliant scientific exchange plans across EMEA.
Elevate our presence attoptiercongresses and in medical societies, coordinating symposia, data presentations, advisory boards, and medical education aligned to unmet needs.
Serve as senior medical spokesperson for the Zone; build trust with clinical leaders, professional associations, and policy stakeholders.
4) Launch Excellence & Market Shaping (Medical)
Coleadlaunch excellence with clear medical milestones, readiness assessments, medical training, scientific platform deployment, and claims substantiation.
Shapeevidencebasedmarket development in priority indications/settings (e.g., allergy, critical care, enteral nutrition), grounded in guidelines and best practice.
Ensure field medical excellence (MSL strategy, territory planning, scientific training, insights capture) and robust impact measurement.
5) Medical Governance, Compliance & Risk Management
Strengthen medical governance across Global–Zone–CBU: SOPs, decision rights, review committees, and compliant material approval.
Ensure high standard sin scientific exchange, medical review, pharmacovigilance/safety signal escalation (as applicable), and risk mitigation.
Partner with Regulatory, Quality, and Legal/Ethics & Compliance to uphold external standards and internal policies.
6) Insights to Action
Build a systematic insights engine that informs strategy pivots, evidence priorities, and educational initiatives.
Convert insights to actionable updates for Global brand/medical teams and provide clear direction to CBUs.
7) People & Community Leadership
Lead and coach senior medical talent across markets; upskill teams in scientific communications, external engagement, and evidence literacy.
Run EMEA Communities of Practice with repeatable playbooks and peer…
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