Senior Director - Medical Affairs

Pandorum Technologies; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 17,176,000 - 28,626,000; Full time

Job summary

Pandorum Technologies in Bengaluru seeks a senior medical affairs leader to own investigator training, calibration programs, and adjudication pathways across sites and indications. You will ensure framework integrity and drive investor-level scientific outcomes.

You will maintain relationships with UAE clinical partners and health authorities, while sustaining existing ties in India and Japan, and building a network for additional indications.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in medical affairs with ophthalmology focus.
• Experience building multi-site diagnostic-standardisation programmes at scale with measurable outcomes.
• Regional medical strategy experience across Middle East or Asia-Pacific markets.
• Proven track record of building durable scientific relationships with academic and government institutions.
• Willingness to be present in UAE during site initiation, investigator calibration, and first-patient-in periods.

Responsibilities

• Own investigator training on tissue-state eligibility framework, grading scales, and PRO administration across sites and indications.
• Build and run grading calibration and inter-rater reliability programmes with reference materials and calibration rounds.
• Own adjudication pathway for discordant and borderline gradings.
• Maintain criteria-integrity surveillance with documentation and escalation of deviations.
• Act as principal scientific relationship owner for UAE clinical partners and health-authority stakeholders.
• Sustain and deepen investigator relationships in India and Japan; build network for second-stage indications.
• Own the publication plan for a landmark first-in-human study and drive delivery.
• Set congress and scientific-communication strategy and ensure narrative consistency across outputs.

Skills

Medical degree

Medical affairs

Ophthalmology

Scientific relationships

Multi-site coordination

Stakeholder management

Education

MD/MBBS/DO or equivalent

Job description

Job Description

Mandate

• Own investigator training on the tissue-state eligibility framework, the structural grading scales, and patient-reported outcome administration, across all participating sites and indications.
• Build and run the grading calibration and inter-rater reliability programme: reference materials, calibration rounds completed before first patient in, pre-specified reliability thresholds, periodic re-calibration, and ongoing drift monitoring.
• Own the adjudication pathway for discordant and borderline gradings.
• Maintain criteria-integrity surveillance: every eligibility decision documented against the framework, every borderline case and deviation escalated.
• Investigator, expert and institutional engagement
• Act as principal scientific relationship owner for UAE clinical partners and health-authority stakeholders.
• Sustain and deepen the established investigator relationships in India and Japan.
• Build the investigator network for the pre-planned second-stage indication.
• Evidence and publication strategy
• Own the publication plan for a study intended to be a landmark first-in-human result, and drive it to delivery.
• Set congress and scientific-communication strategy.
• Hold scientific-narrative consistency across every output — abstracts, posters, manuscripts, investigator materials, and health-authority correspondence.
• Regional medical and access foundation
• Support the epidemiology and market-access groundwork underway with regional partners.
• Build the medical foundation for eventual payer and reimbursement engagement across MENA.

Scope boundaries

• Clinical operations — regulatory submissions, site contracting and initiation, monitoring, data management and vendor oversight sit with the CRO, under the CEO.
• Study design — the protocol, endpoints, eligibility criteria and statistical architecture are set and, in material part, filed as intellectual property. This role executes fidelity to the design; it does not redesign it.
• Intellectual property and regulatory strategy, which sit with the CEO and counsel.
• Financing and investor engagement.

Requirements

• Medical degree, with 10+ years in medical affairs and substantial depth in ophthalmology.
• Demonstrated ownership of multi-site, multi-investigator scientific standardisation or diagnostic-competency programmes — at scale, and with measurable outcomes.
• Regional medical strategy experience across emerging, Middle East or Asia-Pacific markets.
• A track record of building durable scientific relationships with academic and government institutions.
• Willingness to be present in the UAE as the programme requires — including sustained presence around site initiation, investigator calibration, and the first-patient-in period.