Medical Director

Medical Director

52% of the world can’t access essential healthcare: we’re a business that does something about it. Join us.

reach52 is dedicated to reaching the 52% of the world without access to essential healthcare. The social-business model started by training health workers to run data-driven public health campaigns (funded by donors and B2B partners; with campaigns over 20 health topics run by over 16,500 health workers in India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa and the Philippines); but has now expanded to include distribution of affordable, high-quality essential medicine that lowers out-of-pocket health costs, and provides sustainable revenue to fund the public health activities. reach52 is now near-nationwide across India and continues expansion across Asia and Africa.

Why work with us? We are challenging established business norms, with a new value proposition to build a socially-minded, sustainable models that can serve half the planet. You get to be creative, move fast, own truly important things, grow, learn, and help people. We’re not a charity, we are redesigning how affordable healthcare is delivered through truly innovative, efficient business and service delivery models.

We already work with over half of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, a number of major NGOs, national and local governments, and have footholds in six markets. We have a great team, and we will be expanding rapidly over the next year/s and entering a number of new markets, particularly in Africa, and launching a number of new innovations and services that help us enable our mission at-scale.

We’re just getting started though, so get onboard: do something that matters.

Who are we looking for?

Title: Medical Director

Contract type: Full-time, permanent

Start Date: March 2025

Location: Mumbai, India, flexible

Reporting to: Chief Access Officer

Our Impact team is key to our mission and value. So far, we have trained over 16,000 Community Health Workers, run public health programs across 20+ health areas, and currently run around 10,000 health education and screening events per month across India. We plan to expand extensively in Africa and continue to grow within India too.

Our Access team delivers affordable, high-quality medicines across India and increasingly in Africa.  We aim to fill market access gaps by launching and promoting products that are in high need but not well-known.  This will require a higher degree of training of HCWs, field force, and awareness among patients than is typically expected of a medical marketing manager.  Our Impact and Access teams should work in tandem with a public health strategy set by the Medical Director.

What you’ll do

Key duties will include:

• Support development of public health interventions in rural communities across India
• Lead development of patient awareness materials
• Develop materials and lead trainings of community health workers, doctors, and our own field force
• Provide input into product strategy and selection
• Oversee medical compliance and pharmacovigilance functions
• Provide input on medical marketing materials and strategy
• Lead engagements with key opinion leaders and government officials
• Speak at events coordinated across India
• Provide support into medical marketing materials, product strategy, and public health campaigns in Africa

Who you are (probably!)

We’re reasonably sure you should have a profile like this, but we can flex sometimes:

• Medical doctor or doctor of pharmacy
• 3+ years of experience within a pharmaceutical company in a medical marketing role
• Knowledge of and experience in compliance and pharmacovigilance
• Experience working on medical education programs in rural India
• Experience developing training materials and as a lecturer.
• Experience in a start-up-like setting and demonstrated ability to think quickly and independently
• High autonomy, entrepreneurial mindset. Ability to see the big picture and then own the details
• A passion for healthcare access, innovation, and social impact – 52% of the world can’t access healthcare, our goal is to solve this, and you need to inspire people to push towards our mission
• An agile, hardworking and growth mindset, able to thrive in a fast-paced environment – grow, pivot, grow…
• Robust analytical skills and an ability to process complex information to define clear direction and strategy – we love data-driven impact models
• Love dynamism and an ever-changing set of challenges and projects to work on– we have a lot going on, but its working!