How to hire a health sciences manager

How to hire a health sciences manager, step by step

Here's a step-by-step health sciences manager hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a health sciences manager job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new health sciences manager
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   The health sciences manager hiring process starts by determining what type of worker you actually need. Certain roles might require a full-time employee, whereas part-time workers or contractors can do others.

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   You should also consider the ideal background you'd like them a health sciences manager to have before you start to hire. For example, what industry or field would you like them to have experience in, what level of seniority or education does the job require, and how much it'll cost to hire a health sciences manager that fits the bill.

   Here's a comparison of health sciences manager salaries for various roles:

   Type of Health Sciences Manager	Description	Hourly rate
   Health Sciences Manager	Natural sciences managers supervise the work of scientists, including chemists, physicists, and biologists. They direct activities related to research and development, and coordinate activities such as testing, quality control, and production.	$27-81
   Microbiology Laboratory Manager	A Microbiology Laboratory Manager is a leader who is in charge of the overall operations of a facility. Microbiology laboratory managers focus on the consistent implementation of the facility's procedures, business practices, and policies for employees... Show more	$31-64
   Wild Life Manager	A wildlife manager is responsible for overseeing the safety and health of animals in a habitat. Day-to-day duties include keeping track of animal populations, developing effective plans on wildlife management, and ensuring the preservation of the habitat and food supply of wildlife threatened by human activities... Show more	$20-65

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Business Development
   • Public Health
   • Project Management
   • IRB

   Responsibilities:

   • Manage multiple patients, assessing ability to continue living independently or moving to higher acuity care.
   • Provide clinical exercise physiology services and health/wellness counseling for family practice/sports medicine/orthopedics medical group effecting positive lifestyle changes in patients serve.
   • Participate and collaborate in CDC reports on effective prevention and intervention initiatives adopt by the agency.

3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your health sciences manager job description is one of the best ways to attract top talent. A health sciences manager can vary based on:

   • Location. For example, health sciences managers' average salary in hawaii is 52% less than in alaska.
   • Seniority. Entry-level health sciences managers 66% less than senior-level health sciences managers.
   • Certifications. A health sciences manager with certifications usually earns a higher salary.
   • Company. Working for an established firm or a new start-up company can make a big difference in a health sciences manager's salary.

   Average health sciences manager salary

   $98,689yearly

   $47.45 hourly rate

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   Entry-level health sciences manager salary

   $57,000 yearly salary

   Updated December 18, 2025

4. Writing a health sciences manager job description

   A health sciences manager job description should include a summary of the role, required skills, and a list of responsibilities. It's also good to include a salary range and the first name of the hiring manager. Below, you can find an example of a health sciences manager job description:

   Health sciences manager job description example

   Reporting to a Director of Behavioral Science, you will serve as a key player in helping the Behavioral Science team influence decisions with rigorous insights that drive results. You will support initiatives driving a wide range of investigative research activities to define our brands' growth opportunities with regard to brand renovation, expansion, new products, shopper/channels and marketing strategy. You will dig deep to uncover compelling consumer, category, shopper and brand insights; ensure insights are leveraged in growth strategies, new products, and marketing/activation plans.
   You Will:
   Establish yourself as a strategic business partner with Brand Directors and managers, R&D directors, Customer leaders and the Marketing team.Translate insights and analytics into top and bottom line business impact.Drive an agile, analytically-driven approach to identifying and defining business opportunities for growth; develop learning plans, execute, analyze, and communicate learning related to our brands' present and future position in the marketplace.Advise on key strategic issue development to be addressed in annual operating and strategic business plans, serving as consumer and shopper business partner.Lead synthesis and communication of market, retailer and consumer trends; ensure relevant trends are acted upon in brand product and marketing strategies.Identify, develop and refine new/renovated products to support business growth.Lead the sourcing, interpretation and application of marketplace and consumer learning to develop marketing strategy and refine activation for prioritized brands.Drive application of a comprehensive range of research methodologies and suppliers, continuous improvement in techniques and cost.Apply our portfolio segmentation principles with regard to resource allocation, investments and the types of engagements with the brands.
   
   You Bring:
   Bachelor's degree required5+ years experience producing high quality, well-regarded insights and analytics work, preferably in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry.Proven track record of delivering actionable business recommendations, influencing decisions, and impacting results.Strong priority management skills so to ensure insights resources are leveraged and applied to the most important business issues.A proven record of turning insights into actions with our brands, retailers, marketing and R&D.A proven track record of driving business models and influencing the matrix across Brand, Marketing, Customer and R&D.Strong knowledge of multiple insights tools and processes, both quantitative and qualitative.Experience working with multiple third party suppliers ensuring they are aligned to our key deliverables and they are driving impactful outcomes.Ability to explain difficult concepts and insights in simple, applicable business terms
   
   Our Modern Workplace:
   Conagra's culture of collaboration enhances our ability to meet critical business goals, deliver value to customers and consumers and provide you with the flexibility you need to achieve a better work-life balance. We carefully consider each role and how often each team member needs to collaborate in-person. This position requires you work from our Chicago office 3 days a week.
   
   Located in downtown Chicago along the Chicago River, our corporate headquarters is in the landmark Merchandise Mart building, aka "The Mart", with access to public transit, and several options for dining and shopping in the area.
   
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   Our Benefits:
   
   We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:
   Health: Medical, dental and vision insurance, company-paid life, accident and disability insurance Wealth: great pay, incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan Growth: online courses, virtual and classroom development experiences Balance: paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role)
   
   Our Company:
   
   Conagra Brands is one of North America's leading branded food companies. We have a rich heritage of making great food, and a team that's passionate about innovation and growth. Conagra offers choices for every occasion through iconic brands, such as Birds Eye , Marie Callender's , Banquet , Healthy Choice , Slim Jim , Reddi-wip , and Vlasic , and emerging brands, including Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP , Duke's , Earth Balance , Gardein , and Frontera .
   We pride ourselves on having the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in the food industry. For more information, visit www.conagrabrands.com.
   
   Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law.

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5. Post your job

   To find the right health sciences manager for your business, consider trying out a few different recruiting strategies:

   • Consider internal talent. One of the most important sources of talent for any company is its existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals. Reach out to friends, family members, and current employees and ask if they know or have worked with health sciences managers they would recommend.
   • Recruit at local colleges. Attend job fairs at local colleges to recruit health sciences managers who meet your education requirements.
   • Social media platforms. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter now have more than 3.5 billion users, and you can use social media to reach potential job candidates.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your health sciences manager job on Zippia to find and recruit health sciences manager candidates who meet your exact specifications.
   • Use field-specific websites.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   Your first interview with health sciences manager candidates should focus on their interest in the role and background experience. As the hiring process goes on, you can learn more about how they'd fit into the company culture in later rounds of interviews.

   It's also good to ask about candidates' unique skills and talents. You can move on to the technical interview if a candidate is good enough for the next step.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new health sciences manager

   Once you've selected the best health sciences manager candidate for the job, it's time to write an offer letter. In addition to salary, this letter should include details about the benefits and perks you offer the candidate. Ensuring that your offer is competitive is essential, as qualified candidates may be considering other job opportunities. The candidate may wish to negotiate the terms of the offer, and you should be open to discussion. After you reach an agreement, the final step is formalizing the agreement with a contract.

   It's also important to follow up with applicants who do not get the job with an email letting them know that the position is filled.

   After that, you can create an onboarding schedule for a new health sciences manager. Human Resources and the hiring manager should complete Employee Action Forms. Human Resources should also ensure that onboarding paperwork is completed, including I-9s, benefits enrollment, federal and state tax forms, etc., and that new employee files are created.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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