Role & responsibilities

About the Role The Scientific and Medical Affairs Manager is responsible for providing scientific assessments, clinical evidence reviews, disease landscape analysis, pipeline intelligence and horizon scanning of existing and emerging medicines, including biologics, long-acting technologies and other health innovations and will translate complex scientific evidence into a clear analysis and recommendations to inform decision making. The role of the selected candidate will be to ensure that the scientific assessments are evidence-based, up-to date, complete, communicated timely and aligned with the MPPs public health mission.

The role combines scientific rigor with public health insight, translating complex scientific and clinical evidence into practical recommendations that inform MPP's prioritization, licensing and access strategies.

Key Responsibilities

Scientific Assessment and Product Evaluation

- Conduct structured scientific and clinical assessments of candidate medicines, including biologics for infectious diseases.
- Critically evaluate clinical evidence, including study design, endpoints, efficacy, safety, tolerability, resistance profile, dosing, route of administration, treatment duration and target populations.
- Assess the comparative clinical value of products against current and anticipated standards of care.
- Evaluate advantages, limitations, uncertainties and evidence gaps relevant to LMIC implementation, including in relation to national and international guidelines and essential medicines lists.
- Develop and maintain concise product profiles for prioritised and emerging products.
- Ensure scientific assessments are evidence-based, maintained as living analyses and updated when significant new evidence becomes available.

Disease Landscape and Public Health Assessment

- Monitor epidemiology, disease burden, treatment gaps and unmet medical needs across priority infectious diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis, respiratory syncytial virus, tuberculosis, malaria, and other relevant public health priorities.
- Assess the significance of the products evaluated within the public health context in LMICs, including vulnerable and underserved populations.




- Monitor changes in WHO guidelines, normative recommendations and other recognised public health guidance, including key medical societies.

Pipeline Intelligence and Horizon Scanning

- Monitor pharmaceutical, biotechnology and academic pipelines to identify promising assets relevant to MPP's mandate.
- Track clinical development programs, including trial initiation, study outcomes, regulatory developments and changes in development strategy.
- Monitor scientific literature, congresses, regulatory communications, clinical trial registries, company disclosures and other relevant sources.
- Conduct horizon scanning both within established disease areas and in emerging areas of public-health relevance.

Product Prioritisation Support

- Provide scientific due diligence and product/pipeline intelligence to business development colleagues, including scientific and clinical assessments of individual assets and company pipelines, to support company engagements.
- Identify scientific and clinical factors affecting implementation, manufacturability, regulatory pathways and adoption
- Contribute from scientific and medical perspective to multidisciplinary discussions with MPP colleagues who have expertise in intellectual property, manufacturing, regulatory, policy, market access and business development, shaping collectively a potential MPP intervention to increase access.

Cross-functional scientific coordination

- Work across relevant MPP functions to ensure timely sharing of scientific intelligence as memos or any other clear fit-for-purpose formats
- Support engagement with the MPP Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) and other key opinion leaders, including by contributing scientific information for consultations and discussions.
- Prepare scientific information and actively contribute to Quarterly Review Meetings




- Support engagement with stakeholders as required, including generic manufacturers network.
- Attend relevant conferences and events to gather insights and scientific intelligence and report it to the team with actionable suggestions.
- Provide relevant scientific information for donor reports, advisory groups, external partners and communication material as required.

Preferred candidate profile

Requirements

Essential

- Masters, PhD or other advanced degree in Biology, Medicine, Pharmacology or a related scientific discipline.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant scientific experience in scientific assessment, clinical research, scientific intelligence, access programmes or a related function.
- Demonstrated experience assessing clinical and scientific evidence of pharmaceutical assets
- Strong analytical, scientific writing and information synthesis skills
- Professional fluency in English
- Digital literacy

Desirable

- Relevant experience in HIV, TB, viral hepatitis, respiratory infections, malaria or emerging infectious diseases.
- Experience working with LMIC health systems and global health stakeholders.
- Sound understanding of drug development pathways and regulatory processes.
- Experience working in international and multidisciplinary environments.

Perks and benefits At MPP we are a dedicated team driven by our mission to increase access to, and facilitate the development of, life-saving medicines to those who need them. We are passionate, driven by our values of respect, courage, generosity and commitment.

MPP seeks talent from a variety of areas of expertise and recognises that a diverse workforce and an inclusive cultural environment are critical to the success of our mission.

We offer attractive working conditions and a supportive and inclusive work setting designed to help employees thrive. Our staff benefit from 30 days of paid annual leave, plus local public holidays, as well as flexible working arrangements, including remote work options and part-time setups. We invest in continuous learning through financial and time support for professional development, enabling staff to keep pace with evolving scientific, legal, and regulatory fields.

📌 Scientific and Medical Affairs Manager (Mumbai)
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