Medical & Scientific Affairs Manager
Medical & Scientific Affairs Manager
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Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Created Date: 2026-10-12
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Experience: 5 - 8 years
Salary: 500000
Industry: Others
Openings: 1
Primary Responsibilities :
Medical affairs strategy: Develop the medical and scientific plan for each ingredient, including evidence gaps,
priority indications, mechanisms, endpoints, safety requirements, publication goals and budget priorities.
Study development: Translate commercial and scientific questions into preclinical and clinical research plans;
contribute to protocols, endpoints, investigator selection and study governance.
External partner management: Identify and manage CROs, investigators, universities, laboratories, medical
advisers, toxicologists and statistical experts; monitor timelines, quality, budgets and deliverables.
Scientific interpretation: Critically review protocols, raw outputs, statistical analyses, study reports and
literature; distinguish exploratory findings from substantiated conclusions.
KOL engagement: Build ethical, evidence-led relationships with clinicians, researchers and scientific opinion
leaders; organize advisory discussions and research collaborations.
Publications and congresses: Own publication plans and coordinate manuscripts, abstracts, posters,
presentations, white papers and conference submissions.
Scientific dossiers: Maintain product monographs, mechanism-of-action narratives, evidence summaries,
safety reviews, FAQs, technical presentations and claim-support files.
Customer scientific support: Lead scientific discussions and respond to due-diligence questions from US
customer R&D, medical, regulatory and formulation teams.
Claims governance: Partner with Regulatory to ensure structure-function narratives, scientific substantiation
and commercial language remain accurate, appropriately qualified and compliant.
Internal capability: Train Sales, Marketing, Quality and leadership on the ingredient science, evidence
limitations, approved language and customer objections.
Scientific intelligence: Monitor new research, competitor evidence, clinical trends, regulatory science and
emerging opportunities relevant to Ariv’s portfolio.
Experience Requirements:
Education: PhD, PharmD, MD, MPharm or Master’s degree in Pharmacology, Clinical Research, Biochemistry,
Biotechnology, Life Sciences or a closely related discipline.
Experience: 5-8 years in medical affairs, scientific affairs, clinical development, translational research or
evidence strategy within nutraceuticals, botanical ingredients, phytomedicine, pharma or biotechnology.
Study literacy: Strong ability to evaluate preclinical and clinical study design, controls, endpoints, statistics,
biological relevance, limitations and safety data.
Program ownership: Demonstrated experience coordinating external research partners and managing scientific
projects from question definition through final report or publication.
Communication: Excellent scientific writing, presentation and stakeholder-management skills; able to
communicate with researchers and commercial teams without overstating evidence.
US-market awareness: Practical understanding of dietary supplement evidence, structure-function
substantiation and the difference between ingredient-level and finished-product claims.
Working style: High scientific integrity, intellectual curiosity, strong project discipline and comfort building a
function in an early-stage organization.
Non-Negotiable Hiring Criteria
Has owned medical/scientific deliverables or study programs - not only written content supplied by others.
Can critically challenge a protocol, CRO proposal, statistical conclusion or mechanism claim.
Can show at least two substantive outputs such as a protocol, study report, publication, evidence dossier,
advisory program or scientific launch plan.
Demonstrates rigorous citation discipline and zero tolerance for invented references, selective reporting or
overclaiming.
Comfortable representing Ariv in technical discussions with international customers, researchers and advisers.
Preferred / Advantageous
Direct experience with botanical ingredients, natural products, nutraceuticals or metabolic-health evidence.
Experience with CRO contracting, investigator management, GCP/GLP principles or ethics submissions.
Peer-reviewed publications, conference abstracts, posters or KOL/advisory-board experience.
Familiarity with HPLC/UPLC, LC-MS, phytochemical standardization, bioassays and common metabolic
endpoints.
Experience translating scientific evidence into B2B ingredient positioning and customer adoption.
