Why choose AstraZeneca India?
Help push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients. After 45 years in India, we’re continuing to secure a future where everyone can access affordable, sustainable, innovative healthcare.
The part you play in our business will be challenging, yet rewarding, requiring you to use your resilient, collaborative and diplomatic skillsets to make connections. The majority of your work will be field based, and will require you to be highly-organised, planning your monthly schedule, attending meetings and calls, as well as writing up reports.
Who do we look for?
Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. We empower people like you to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention, and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. You'll embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.
Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting-edge technology. Whether you join us in Bengaluru or Chennai, you can make a tangible impact within a global biopharmaceutical company that invests in your future. Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day.
Success Profile
Ready to make an impact in your career? If you're passionate, growth-orientated and a true team player, we'll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for.
Tech innovators
Make a greater impact through our digitally enabled enterprise. Use your skills in data and technology to transform and optimise our operations, helping us deliver meaningful work that changes lives.
Ownership takers
If you're a self-aware self-starter who craves autonomy, AstraZeneca provides the perfect environment to take ownership and grow. Here, you'll feel empowered to lead and reach excellence at every level — with unrivalled support when you need it.
Challenge seekers
Adapting and advancing our progress means constantly challenging the status quo. In this dynamic environment where everything we do has urgency and focus, you'll have the ability to show up, speak up and confidently take smart risks.
Proactive collaborators
Your unique perspectives make our ambitions and capabilities possible. Our culture of sharing ideas, learning and improving together helps us consistently set the bar higher. As a proactive collaborator, you'll seek out ways to bring people together to achieve their best.
Responsibilities
Job Title: Associate Director II, CReW
Global Career Level: E3
Role Type: Individual Contributor
Work Location: Embassy Manyata Business Park
About AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines targeting some of the planet’s most serious diseases. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca, we 're dedicated to being a Great Place to Work.
About the role
Introduction to role:
The role holders provide strategic leadership and communications expertise to clinical drug programs. They author clinical-regulatory documents and provide critical review to achieve high-quality standards. They represent the skill on drug and non-drug projects.
The Clinical Regulatory Writing team provides expert communications leadership to drug projects and authors strategically important clinical-regulatory documents that are label focused and align with project strategies, regulatory requirements, and communications best-practices. We support the Company’s core therapeutic areas in all phases of clinical development. Our vision is to be an industry leading organization driving critical communication excellence to achieve successful submissions and approvals.
Accountabilities:
Portfolio Leadership: Independently manage clinical regulatory writing across a complex portfolio, prioritizing impact and ensuring delivery to time and quality.
Authoritative Document Ownership: Serve as lead author for the most complex clinical-regulatory documents in a program, meeting all technical, regulatory, and quality standards while applying best practice and continuous improvement.
Submission Communications Strategy: When acting as submission lead, drive the clinical Submission Communication Strategy (cSCS), aligning cross-functional teams around clear positions and messages that anticipate regulator needs.
Strategic Communications Partnership: As part of clinical delivery and submission teams, provide strategic communications leadership, set communication standards, and champion quality, efficiency, and consistency across programs.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with clinical, biostatistics, regulatory, safety, and operations teams to interpret complex data and craft concise, accurate messages that answer customer and regulator questions.
Vendor and Team Leadership: Lead internal and external authoring teams, including vendor medical writers, to scale delivery while upholding scientific integrity and message discipline.
Program-Level Influence: Operate proactively at the program level, shaping clinical narratives across studies and indications and ensuring coherence from protocol to label.
Talent Development: Support the development of Clinical Regulatory Writing Managers, sharing frameworks, feedback, and coaching to set the standard across the skill.
Operational Excellence: Drive continuous improvement in our authoring model, tools, and ways of working, representing the writing skill in drug and non-drug projects for broader organizational benefit.
Essential Skills/Experience:
- Life Sciences degree in an appropriate subject area.
- Minimum 10+ years of significant medical writing experience in the pharmaceutical industry or CRO.
- Ability to advise and lead communication projects.
- Understand drug development and communication process from development, launch through life cycle management.
- In depth knowledge of the technical and regulatory requirements related to the role.
Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Advanced degree in a scientific field (Ph.D.).
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility.
Join us in our unique and ambitious world.
Why AstraZeneca:
At AstraZeneca's Biopharmaceuticals R&D, we are part of the solution, turning our drug development strategies into reality. We work at all stages of development to translate our life-changing science into medicines to get the best results for AstraZeneca, patients in need and healthcare professionals. We are a diverse and open-minded team harnessing our different skills and experiences. Our differences enable us to explore new ideas and ways of doing things. It keeps us on our toes and excited for what's next.
Where Can I Find Out More?
Our Social Media, Follow AstraZeneca on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/1603/
Call to Action:
Step into the role that turns evidence into approvals—shape the submissions that change labels and lives, and lead the next chapter of clinical communication excellence!
AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We align with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
Date Posted
26-Oct-2026Closing Date
31-Oct-2026AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
Reasons to Join
Thomas Mathisen
There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.
Christine Recchio
Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.
Stephanie Ling
There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.
What we offer
We're driven by our shared values of serving people, society and the planet. Our people make this possible, which is why we prioritise diversity, safety, empowerment and collaboration. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you.
Lifelong learning
Our development opportunities are second to none. You'll have the chance to grow your abilities, skills and knowledge constantly as you accelerate your career. From leadership projects and constructive coaching to overseas talent exchanges and global collaboration programmes, you'll never stand still.
Autonomy and reward
Experience the power of shaping your career how you want to. We are a high-performing learning organisation with autonomy over how we learn. Make big decisions, learn from your mistakes and continue growing — with performance-based rewards as part of the package.
Health and wellbeing
An energised work environment is only possible when our people have a healthy work-life balance and are supported for their individual needs. That's why we have a dedicated team to ensure your physical, financial and psychological wellbeing is a top priority.
Inclusion and diversity
Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do. We're at our best and most creative when drawing on our different views, experiences and strengths. That's why we're committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive in a culture of respect, collaboration and innovation.
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