Product Management Specialist

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.

We are seeking a detail-oriented and strategic intellectual to join our Product Management team as a Product Management Analyst/Specialist. This is a non-supervisory position to provide support for USP’s new initiative Materials Program. The individual will be responsible for product pipeline through identification and evaluation of relevant potential materials to introduce into the catalogue, managing the product pre-pipeline, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, and working with internal teams to assess new material categories. Our ideal candidate should have a background in science and product management experience and be able to manage data analysis while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

None, this is an individual contributor role.

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:

• Master’s degree in chemistry, Pharmacy, or a related field with a minimum of 4-5 years of hands-on experience as a process chemist with exposure to many API s & diverse types of finished pharmaceutical products.
• Experience in developing projects/products in life science industry, CRO/CDMO or equivalent relevant experience.
• A thorough understanding of the development, production and testing of pharmaceutical materials, including APIs, excipients, and finished dosage forms.
• Proven experience in product development and management/portfolio management within the pharmaceutical/life science industry.
• Experience in handling software like Chemdraw, Chemfinder, Scifnder, Reaxys, Patent databases and other google search engines etc.
• Knowledge of standards used for pharmaceutical product testing such as analytical reference material, certified reference material, and reference standards.
• Experience with handling large amounts of data and information using scientific databases.
• Experience in reviewing pharmaceutical patents and patent claims.
• Experience in creating and maintaining dashboards (Excel (working with functions, pivot tables, data visualization), Tableau, or other platforms).
• Strong understanding of regulatory requirements and compliance.
• Good communication, interpersonal skills, and use of excel and Microsoft Office suite.
• Able to work flexible hours when needed in collaboration with global teams.
• Workload management skills; able to juggle a diverse and rapidly changing workload, delivering across several teams within a matrixed structure.
• Strong quantitative and critical thinking skills with ability to handle complexity and drive data-driven solutions.
• Self-starter and highly self-motivated, assumes personal accountability for results and performance.
• Strong written and verbal communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

• Minimum 2-3 years’ experience in product/portfolio management building new product portfolio
• Knowledge of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), patent landscape, freedom to operate analysis & portfolio management
• Product Management Certification/MBA/ advanced degree preferred.
• Experienced at managing and analyzing business and product sales data/similar database tools.

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.