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Walaa El-Sayed

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Director, Business Development & Global Project Management at Alcon
📍 United Arab Emirates

Walaa El-Sayed is a results-driven executive at Alcon with over 20 years of experience in the medical technology sector. He specializes in global business development and service operations, with a background in Systems & Biomedical Engineering from Cairo University. He has a proven record of driving multimillion-dollar savings and executing large-scale transformation initiatives.

A unique achievement of his was leading high-impact savings programs across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas that resulted in $800M in savings.

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Experience
13 Years
Current Role
Director, Business Development & Global Project Management
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
United Arab Emirates
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Technical & Sales Alignment
He frequently posts about the need for technical services to be involved early in the sales process to ensure execution, protect margins, and manage risk.
Operational Excellence
His work focuses on driving efficiency, having previously cut annual costs by $400K, reduced response times by 30%, and improved the First-Time Fix Rate by 13%.
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Career

Work history

8-2021
Director, Business Development & Global Project Management
Alcon
3-2017 - 8-2021
Director, Technical Services
Alcon
11-2013 - 3-2017
Senior Manager, Field Service
Alcon
12-2004 - 6-2006
Export Sales Engineer
MOBICA+
10-2004 - 12-2004
Medical Sales Representative
Scientific Services Ltd
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Education
9-1997 - 7-2003
B.Sc. in Systems & Biomedical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University – Cairo, Egypt
1984 - 1997
High School
Manor House School
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