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Deema Al-Najjar

Deema Al-Najjar

Muscat

Summary

Healthcare Nutrition Specialist with strong scientific grounding and 5 years of experience engaging with healthcare professionals across pediatric, allergy, and clinical nutrition practices. Skilled in scientific communication, evidence-based discussions, and supporting physicians in diagnosis, treatment pathways, and updated clinical guidelines. Experienced in KOL engagement, insight gathering, and cross-functional collaboration . Passionate about advancing patient outcomes through clinical education, real‑world evidence insights, and therapeutic-area leadership.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Healthcare Nutrition Specialist

Danone
Oman
11.2021 - 12.2025

medical Responsibilities & Scientific Engagement Additional Responsibilities

  • Lead the Allergy Portfolio, supporting physicians in accurate diagnosis, guideline‑based management, and therapeutic decisions for CMPA and food allergies.
  • Deliver scientific presentations, journal updates, and clinical practice guideline reviews to pediatricians, allergists, neonatologists, and GPs.
  • Act as a scientific resource on allergy pathophysiology, diagnostic pathways, elimination diets, oral tolerance, and international best practices.
  • Conduct peer‑to‑peer discussions, scientific meetings, and case‑based reviews to support clinical decision‑making.
  • Build and maintain relationships with KOLs, gathering clinical insights to guide internal medical and marketing strategies.
  • Support real‑world evidence (RWE) opportunities through investigator identification and field insights.
  • Provide cross‑functional scientific support to sales, marketing, and regulatory teams to ensure accuracy and medical governance.
  • Monitor therapeutic trends, emerging research, and competitive scientific data to maintain leadership in the allergy field.
  • Ensure strict adherence to WHO Code, scientific governance, and ethical standards.
  • Maintain high-level scientific knowledge to communicate product benefits and answer technical questions from HCPs.
  • Conduct scientific audio/visual meetings and nutrition education activities.
  • Identify business opportunities and develop tactics to achieve cycle objectives.
  • Execute field visits, maintain databases, manage KPIs, and record call reports.
  • Support events, conferences, and medical seminars.

• With the appropriate level of scientific based argumentation and relationship

development, convince MCPs to choose our solutions as first choice

• Ensure all doctors/HCP/KOL receive the right message, information

• Illustrate the benefit/s of our solutions to the HCPs

• Conduct scientific audio / visual meetings for HCPs

• Identify business opportunities within respective area and evaluate learning's to

develop business initiatives and tactics to realize results

• Implement 'weekly call cycle' in constant coordination with direct manager

• Understand and respond to competitive activities and initiate and recommend

actions to counter-act these in order to help protect our market position

• Maintain a high level of product knowledge to ensure the ability to understand

and explain all product information and hand outs and

• Answer any question from HCP

• Follow up customer queries/complaints

• Review business plan in line with cycle objectives on a quarterly basis with the

Healthcare Nutrition Field Manager

• Compile and submit reports on promotional activities

• Ensure that all business is conform to the WHO and local government code of

ethics for infant formula products

• Conduct seminars and detailing nutrition education activities

• Daily database management and compliance with administrative procedures

& processes

• Ensure the accomplishment of qualitative and quantitative key; performance

indicators assigned for him/her for his/her respective, area on daily, monthly

and yearly bases

Medical Representative

AZ Medcare
Oman
01.2021 - 10.2021
  • Arrange appointments with doctors, pharmacists and hospital medical teams, which may include prearranged appointments or regular 'cold' calling
  • Make presentations to doctors, practice staff and nurses in GP surgeries, hospital doctors and pharmacists in the retail sector
  • Organise conferences for doctors and other medical staff
  • Manage budgets for catering, outside speakers, conferences and hospitality
  • Keep detailed records of all contacts
  • Meet and, if possible, exceed sales targets, regularly monitoring your business plans to make sure you achieve this
  • Plan work schedules and weekly and monthly timetables with the area sales team or discuss future targets with the area sales manager
  • Regularly attend company meetings, technical data presentations and briefings
  • Keep up to date with the latest clinical data supplied by the company, and interpret, present and discuss this data with health professionals during presentations
  • Analyse sales data to improve results and make sure resources are effectively allocated
  • Monitor competitor activity and competitors' products
  • Keep up to date with new developments in the NHS, anticipate potential negative and positive impacts on the business and adapt strategy accordingly
  • Develop strategies for increasing opportunities to meet and talk to contacts in the medical and healthcare sector
  • Stay informed about the activities of health services in a particular area

Education

MBA - Marketing

Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia
Spain
01.2021 - 10.2021

Bachelor - Pharmacy

University of Nizwa
Oman
09.2013 - 03.2018

Certified Key Account Manager - Management

Bepac Education Management
Oman

Skills

  • Scientific communication & clinical data interpretation
  • Allergy portfolio expertise (CMPA, food allergies, intolerances)
  • KOL & stakeholder engagement
  • Evidence‑based medical education
  • Insight generation for medical strategy
  • Cross‑functional collaboration
  • Real‑world evidence support
  • Market research & competitive intelligence
  • Relationship building & active listening
  • Presentation skills
  • Product knowledge & therapeutic awareness
  • Business ethics & compliance (WHO Code)
  • Commercial awareness & strategic planning

LANGUAGES

English C1 Advanced
Arabic C1 Advanced

MOBILITY AND FLEXIBILITY

  • "Willing to travel extensively for work"
  • "Open to relocation for the right opportunity"
  • "Flexible to work in various locations as needed"

Timeline

Healthcare Nutrition Specialist

Danone
11.2021 - 12.2025

Medical Representative

AZ Medcare
01.2021 - 10.2021

MBA - Marketing

Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia
01.2021 - 10.2021

Bachelor - Pharmacy

University of Nizwa
09.2013 - 03.2018

Certified Key Account Manager - Management

Bepac Education Management
Deema Al-Najjar