Hiring for pharmaceutical manufacturers, formulation and API units, CROs, diagnostics chains and hospitals across India and the UAE, clinical, regulatory, quality and commercial roles.
Overview
Mars Consultancy recruits for pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, diagnostics chains and life-sciences employers across India and the UAE. We hire quality assurance and quality control, production, regulatory affairs, formulation R&D, pharmacovigilance and clinical research roles, alongside hospital operations, nursing and allied-health positions and the entire field force from Medical Representative up to Regional Sales Manager.
Healthcare and pharma is the sector where a job title tells you the least. Two QA Officers can have completely different value depending on whether their plant is USFDA-inspected, WHO-GMP certified or supplying only the domestic market, and whether they have actually faced an auditor or only maintained the documentation. The same is true of dosage form: oral solids, injectables, ophthalmics and API each demand different exposure, and a candidate who has only run tablets will not walk into a sterile injectable block. We screen on plant, dosage form, market and audit exposure before a CV reaches your panel.
Much of our pharma hiring has been in Mumbai and the MMR belt, which hold one of India's densest concentrations of pharma employers: corporate and regulatory offices in Andheri and the western suburbs, manufacturing across Thane, Ambernath, Taloja and Tarapur, and the newer capacity spreading up towards Palghar and Boisar. In a market that dense, candidates are visible to everyone, so the differentiator is not who has the biggest database but who confirms qualification, exposure and genuine willingness to travel to a plant location before an interview slot is spent.
From requirement briefing to a suitable candidate closing.
For clients in Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai and other Indian cities, and in the UAE.
We are paid by the companies that hire, never by candidates.
The hard part
Quality, production, regulatory affairs and R&D roles carry hard educational requirements, B.Pharm, M.Pharm, M.Sc in the relevant stream, sometimes a specific specialisation. A strong candidate without the qualification on paper cannot be approved by a plant that is audit-accountable for its personnel records. We verify degree, stream and institution up front rather than letting it surface during BGV.
When a USFDA inspection, a WHO-GMP renewal or a Schedule M readiness review is on the calendar, an open QA or QC position is a live risk, but a weak hire in a documentation or release role is a bigger one. These briefs need a shortlist fast and screened properly at the same time. We narrow on plant type, dosage form and prior audit exposure so the panel sees fewer, more relevant people.
A formulation scientist who has developed oral solids is not interchangeable with one who has worked on injectables or transdermals, and a Medical Representative selling cardio-diabetic products has a different call pattern and prescriber base from one in dermatology or critical care. We screen on therapy area, dosage form and prescriber segment, because that is where interviews usually fail.
Medical Representative and Area Business Manager roles churn continuously, and the same candidate typically sits in three pipelines at once. Filling a territory once is easy; keeping it filled is the actual brief. We run field force hiring as a rolling pipeline with follow-up through the notice period, since the loss in this sector happens between offer and joining.
Nursing, technician and hospital operations roles come with night shifts, rotational rosters and on-call expectations that decide whether a candidate stays past month three. Accreditation requirements under NABH and NABL also fix minimum staffing and qualification norms. We confirm shift willingness, commute distance and registration status at screening rather than after joining.
Roles
Use cases
Common shapes of requirement in this sector, and how each one is run. These are illustrative patterns rather than accounts of specific engagements.
Track record
Across India and in the UAE. Our longest record is in the Mumbai region, and these are the belts where we have hired most for this sector. For most roles below management there, travel time decides whether an offer is accepted, so we screen for it.
Talk to the sector deskCorporate offices, regulatory affairs, pharmacovigilance, marketing and product management teams for domestic and export-facing pharma companies.
Formulation and API manufacturing across the Thane–Kalyan and Navi Mumbai industrial belts, QA, QC, production, validation and plant engineering roles.
Analytical labs, diagnostics chains, medical devices and distribution, alongside the multi-speciality hospitals across Vashi, Nerul and Kharghar.
The volume drug and intermediates belt north of Mumbai, where the constraint is usually willingness to relocate or accept a long commute rather than skill.
Multi-speciality and NABH-accredited hospitals, day-care centres and pathology chains hiring nursing, technician, coding and operations staff.
Services
Who we hire for
We hire for formulation and API manufacturers, CDMOs, CROs, medical device and diagnostics companies, pathology chains, multi-speciality hospitals and day-care centres, from single-site operators to listed pharma groups.
Discuss a requirementYes. Mars Consultancy hires across pharmaceutical manufacturing, formulation and API units, CROs, diagnostics chains, medical devices and hospitals across India and the UAE, covering QA and QC, production, regulatory affairs, R&D, pharmacovigilance, field sales, and hospital operations, nursing and allied-health roles.
QA and QC officers, production chemists, validation executives, Regulatory Affairs Executives and Managers, Formulation R&D Scientists, Pharmacovigilance Associates and Clinical Research Associates on the technical side, and Medical Representatives, Area Business Managers and Product Managers on the commercial side.
Yes. For plant roles we confirm the type of site a candidate has worked in, USFDA-inspected, WHO-GMP certified or domestic-market, the dosage forms they have handled, and whether they have actually faced an audit rather than only maintained documentation. Qualification, stream and institution are verified before shortlisting, not at BGV.
Yes. Medical Representative and Area Business Manager hiring is run as volume hiring, a rolling pipeline measured on joining rather than CV count, with screening on therapy area and prescriber segment held steady as the numbers climb.
Yes. We hire Nursing Superintendents, staff and ICU nurses, lab and radiology technicians, Biomedical Engineers, Medical Coders, billing and TPA executives and Hospital Operations Managers. Registration status, shift willingness and realistic commuting distance are confirmed at screening, because those are what decide retention.
Typically 7–30 days from requirement briefing to a suitable candidate closing. Field sales and hospital support roles usually close at the faster end; regulatory affairs, sterile production and specialised R&D roles take longer because the qualification floor and the dosage-form or market exposure narrow the pool sharply.
Yes. We have hired for manufacturing sites across the Thane, Ambernath, Taloja, Tarapur, Boisar and Palghar belt, and we confirm relocation or commute willingness at screening, for plant locations that is more often the blocker than the technical fit.
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