US Pharmacopeia
Website:
usp.org
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/uspharmacopeia
Industries: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Job details:
Description
Who is USP?
The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is an independent scientific organization that collaborates with the world’s leading health and science experts to develop rigorous quality standards for medicines, dietary supplements, and food ingredients. At USP, we believe that scientific excellence is driven by a commitment to fairness, integrity, and global collaboration. This belief is embedded in our core value of Passion for Quality and is demonstrated through the contributions of more than 1,300 professionals across twenty global locations, working to strengthen the supply of safe, high-quality medicines worldwide.
At USP, we value inclusive scientific collaboration and recognize that attracting diverse expertise strengthens our ability to develop trusted public health standards. We foster an organizational culture that supports equitable access to mentorship, professional development, and leadership opportunities. Our partnerships, standards, and research reflect our belief that ensuring broad participation in scientific leadership results in stronger, more impactful outcomes for global health.
USP is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer (EEOE) and is committed to ensuring fair, merit-based selection processes that enable the best scientific minds—regardless of background—to contribute to advancing public health solutions worldwide. We provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities and uphold policies that create an inclusive and collaborative work environment.
Brief Job Overview
As part of the USP Programs, Regions, Operations, and Strategy (PROpS) Division, the Reference Standards Product Manager leads the development and management of the Small Molecules, Complex Generics, and General Chapters portfolio of reference standards. The Product Management function is responsible for overseeing the full product lifecycle (development to discontinuation), understanding key industry trends, applying data-driven and analytic decision making and making customer-focused recommendations that drive product portfolio growth. This role is an individual contributor who will be responsible for implementation of projects and processes that enable decisions about new and existing products. Core activities will also include the development of prioritization, forecasting, and financial models that enhance product mix, optimization and overall performance. This is a highly collaborative role that will be expected to work globally across the organization including Science, Operations, Sales, Regions, Pricing, Trade Compliance, and Marketing. As a product manager, this role will drive product strategy, lead cross-functional teams in planning product roadmaps, discount and promotion strategies and ensure the successful launch and growth of innovative, high-quality standards and solutions to drive USP’s mission and vision of improving global health.
How will YOU create impact here at USP?
As part of our mission to advance scientific rigor and public health standards, you will play a vital role in increasing global access to high-quality medicines through public standards and related programs. USP prioritizes scientific integrity, regulatory excellence, and evidence-based decision-making to ensure health systems worldwide can rely on strong, tested, and globally relevant quality standards.
Additionally, USP’s People and Culture division, in partnership with the Equity Office, invests in leadership and workforce development to equip all employees with the skills to create high-performing, inclusive teams. This includes training in equitable management practices and tools to promote engaged, collaborative, and results-driven work environments.
The Reference Standards Product Manager Has The Following Responsibilities
- Item forecasting, pricing, and margin analysis
- Develop and present business case and supporting rationale for new and existing items
- Stays abreast of industry and market trends and key competitive intelligence to drive product strategies.
- Lead pipeline prioritization efforts, aligning pipeline to segment value and organizational strategies/prioritization
- Work with Industry Programs, Science and Operations, and others to facilitate new product launches
- Support Industry Programs, Regional and Sales staff in new product training and related customer solutions
- Support continuous improvement of forecasting and product performance against key success metrics
- Manage product mix and optimization for selection and discontinuation of products that enhance profitability
- Identify new product opportunities based on customer needs, feedback, and strategic insights
- Work collaboratively with Marketing, Sales, and Regions to launch and monitor feedback and uptake of items
- Maintain and update product roadmaps to meet targeted product pipeline and growth goals.
Who is USP Looking For?
The Successful Candidate Will Have a Demonstrated Understanding Of Our Mission, Commitment To Excellence Through Inclusive And Equitable Behaviors And Practices, Ability To Quickly Build Credibility With Stakeholders, Along With The Following Competencies And Experience
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in business, Marketing or Science fields with a MBA Degree.
- Minimum five (5) to seven (7) years of professional experience in Pharmaceutical industry or related field
- At least two (2) years managing large product portfolios across B2B and/or B2C companies and managing high performance cross-functional teams.
- Experience with financial analysis, forecasting, data and analytical tools
- Strong quantitative and critical thinking skills with ability to handle complexity and drive data-driven solutions.
- Ability to develop and present dashboards, templates and business cases supported by strong rationale, customer insights and business growth goals.
- Self-starter and highly self-motivated, assumes personal accountability for results and performance.
- Working knowledge of syndicated data and analysis, such as IQVIA, Cortellis, Dailymed, etc
- Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Strong written and verbal communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
Supervisory Responsibilities
None, this is an individual contributor role.
Benefits
USP provides the benefits to protect yourself and your family today and tomorrow. From company-paid time off and comprehensive healthcare options to retirement savings, you can have peace of mind that your personal and financial well-being is protected.
Note: USP does not accept unsolicited resumes from 3rd party recruitment agencies and is not responsible for fees from recruiters or other agencies except under specific written agreement with USP.
Job Category Technical Programs
Job Type Full-Time
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