Associate Project Manager - Content Production Support, Medical Information & Communication

AstraZeneca; India; Hybrid; INR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

AstraZeneca invites an experienced Delivery Leader to guide Medical Information and Communications initiatives. You will own end-to-end planning, coordination, and delivery across Medical Information, Digital, Veeva, AEM, QA, and Creative, ensuring scope, quality, and regulatory compliance.

You will partner with medical, regulatory, and creative teams across time zones to optimize workflows, manage risks, and report progress to leadership, while supporting scalable, global execution of programs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in project management, delivery coordination, or operations in regulated environments.
• End-to-end project development and delivery management with timelines, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communications.
• Coordinating Medical Information, Medical Content, Digital, Veeva, and Creative delivery activities.
• Supporting review, approval, and delivery workflows within compliance-driven environments.

Responsibilities

• Own planning through delivery for Medical Information and related initiatives, ensuring scope, timelines, quality, and compliance.
• Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for stakeholders; translate needs into actionable delivery plans.
• Coordinate activities across medical, digital, creative, compliance, and Veeva teams to maintain pace.
• Track progress, handle dependencies, and mitigate risks with clear options.
• Implement delivery governance, maintain documentation, and ensure quality and confidentiality.
• Plan resources with functional leads to balance workloads and remove bottlenecks.
• Maintain plans and status reports to communicate progress to leadership.
• Run kick-offs, status reviews, and collaboration forums to drive alignment and momentum.
• Consolidate feedback and ensure timely approvals from collaborators.
• Support scalable, global ways of working and share lessons learned across markets.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder coordination

English communication

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Biomedical Sciences, or related field

Tools

Promomats

MedCom

Veeva Vault

Job description

GCL: D2

Introduction to role

Ready to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects that turn scientific insight into compliant, high-impact medical content? See yourself uniting medical, digital, and creative teams to deliver solutions that equip healthcare professionals and patients with the right information at the right time!

Join a high-performing distributed team where your project leadership will accelerate the delivery of medical information and communication across channels including Digital, Veeva, AEM, QA, and Creative. We will own end-to-end planning, coordination, execution, and delivery, ensuring projects land on time, within scope, and to the highest standards of quality and compliance.

This hybrid role typically requires three days in the office and operates on a 2 to 11 PM shift, supporting flawless collaboration across time zones and markets.

As the central point of orchestration, will partner closely with collaborators, specialists, and delivery teams to handle priorities, risks, and dependencies. Your impact will be felt in the clarity you bring, the momentum that sustain, and the outcomes you enable-advancing consistent, scalable execution of medical and digital programs that support business objectives and enhance collaborator experience.

Accountabilities

• End-to-End Delivery Leadership: Own planning through delivery for Medical Information and Communications, Medical Content, Digital, Veeva, AEM, QA, and Creative initiatives, ensuring precision in scope, timelines, quality, and compliance.
• Stakeholder Partnership and Intake: Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for interested parties; align on requirements, clarify scope, prioritize intake, and translate needs into actionable delivery plans.
• Cross-Functional Orchestration: Coordinate activities across medical, digital, creative, compliance, and Veeva teams to maintain pace and ensure timely progress through review and approval workflows.
• Risk and Dependency Management: Track progress, handle dependencies, and proactively identify and mitigate risks and issues, advancing with clear options and impact assessments.
• Governance and Compliance: Implement delivery governance, maintain documentation, and ensure all activities meet quality, confidentiality, security, and compliance standards.
• Resource and Capacity Planning: Partner with functional leads to align resources with demand, balance workloads, and remove bottlenecks to keep projects moving.
• Visibility and Reporting: Maintain plans, trackers, and status reports that make progress, achievements, and outcomes clear to collaborators and leadership.
• Meeting Facilitation and Alignment: Run kick-offs, status reviews, and collaborator forums to drive alignment, resolve issues, and sustain momentum.
• Feedback Integration and Approvals: Consolidate collaborator feedback, track actions, and ensure closure within agreed timelines to keep results on track.
• Global Scaling and Consistency: Support repeatable, scalable ways of working across global and regional markets, sharing lessons learned and improving processes for sustained impact.

Essential Skills/Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Biomedical Sciences, Business Administration, Communications, Project Management, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 8+ years of demonstrated ability in project management, delivery coordination, or operations management within Medical Information, Medical Communications, Medical Affairs, Digital Delivery, Creative Services, or related regulated environments.
• End-to-end project development, organization, implementation, and delivery management and managing project timelines, achievements, risks, dependencies, and partner communications.
• Coordinating Medical Information, Medical Content, Digital, Veeva, Creative, and cross-functional delivery activities.
• Supporting review, approval, and delivery workflows within compliance-driven environments and maintaining project documentation, reporting, and delivery governance processes.
• Strong understanding of working in compliance-driven, review-based environments (medical, regulatory, legal).
• Ability to summarize and adapt medical/scientific content for appropriate target audiences.
• Experience collaborating with medical, regulatory, creative, and delivery stakeholders.
• Good English communication skills (written and verbal) for stakeholder coordination and documentation and strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Experience working in pharmaceutical, biotech, or healthcare organizations.
• Familiarity with systems such as Promomats, MedCom, or similar medical review platforms.
• Experience supporting congress materials, medical education, or scientific disclosures.
• Basic understanding of regulatory, legal, and compliance review processes in a global environment.
• Awareness of Veeva Vault product updates and standard methodolog