Associate Product Manager/Product Manager (Reference Standards)

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.

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.

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:

None, this is an individual contributor role.

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in business, Marketing or Science fields with a MBA Degree.
• Minimum three (3) to seven (7) years of professional experience in Pharmaceutical industry or related field
• At least one (1) to 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

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