Medical Job at AstraZeneca in Mumbai | Apply
This medical job at AstraZeneca India offers an exceptional opportunity for experienced medical or scientific professionals who want to advance their careers within a global healthcare leader. Based in Mumbai, this role integrates medical governance, compliance, and cross-functional collaboration-making it ideal for candidates exploring AstraZeneca careers or high-growth jobs in Mumbai within the medical and pharmaceutical sector.
Job Details:
- Role: Medical Governance Manager
- ID: R-240329
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Last Date: 09-Dec-2025
About the Company
AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company focused on discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines. It is recognized as one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies and a destination for competitive AstraZeneca careers. With operations in more than 100 countries, AstraZeneca provides one of the most impactful medical job environments worldwide and continues to attract top talent for high-growth jobs in Mumbai.
Medical Job – Education, Qualifications, Skills, and Experience
- Medical qualification.
- Pharmaceutical Industry experience in a medical compliance role.
- Knowledge of relevant local legislation.
- Demonstrated ability to set and manage priorities, resources, goals, and project initiatives.
- Cross-functional teamwork approach.
Job Description
The role of Medical Governance Manager (Nominated Signatory / MGM) covers a set of responsibilities for final approval of specified promotional materials or non-promotional materials, meetings and activities (such as market research, external funding requests and patient support programs), interactions with Health Care Professionals (HCP) and Health Care Organisations (HCO), and other related areas such as non-promotional health education materials for the India Marketing Company (AZPIL).
Medical Job – Key Responsibilities
- Ensure compliance with codes of conduct/practice, internal standards and local legislation relating to promotional and non-promotional activities and interactions with HCPs and HCOs.
- Provide consultancy and ensure delivery of medical and scientific support to internal and external customers across all therapeutic areas.
- Provide leadership and enhance medical compliance capabilities across AZPIL and drive a company-wide culture of compliance.
- Seek opportunities to simplify and improve our approach to medical compliance which aligns with the AZPIL business objectives.
Compliance Responsibilities
- Be comfortable working in a compliance framework that is principles-based, where there are levels of ambiguity and not always a right and wrong answer. Using pharmaceutical industry experience and pragmatism to assess situations and make judgements relating to compliance.
- Conduct thorough and efficient review and approve promotional and educational material/activities in accordance with UCPMP legislation, Codes of Conduct/Practice and AstraZeneca internal standards, ensuring consistency with product license.
- Act as the subject expert for compliance questions from other functions within AZPIL, such as sales/marketing/medical teams.
- Proactive, early-stage guidance of brand cross-functional teams across all therapeutic areas, in the development of promotional and educational materials, activities, and external funding requests by advising on alignment with compliance frameworks and offering compliant solutions to enable innovation.
Learning and Capability Development
- Deliver UCPMP and governance training across teams.
- Support capability development within Medical Compliance Teams.
- Encourage a feedback culture and quality monitoring.
- Drive consistent interpretation of policies and SOPs.
Communication and Leadership and Other Responsibilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to clearly assert the position of compliance by providing the “why’ behind every consideration.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Comfortable working in an environment of fluctuating workloads.
- Ability to prioritize work received from different teams.
- Mentoring and/or onboarding/induction of a new Medical Governance Manager.
