Senior Enterprise Strategy Director

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.

The Senior Enterprise Strategy Director is a highly visible role responsible for leading the Executive and Global Leadership Teams in the collaborative development of USP’s overall strategy. This individual ensures the organization has used fact-based analysis to set, communicate, and make the choices essential to achieving its mission priorities. The incumbent will help identify, establish and refresh the logical basis for the central strategic choices facing the organization around issues of organizational public health impact, and sustainability (revenue and cost).

In addition to support of these activities, the Senior Enterprise Strategy Director may work with the CEO and Executive Team, broader Strategy function, and key global leadership in the organization to support the application of USP’s Strategy to specific program units, regions and other performance cells.   

This individual will be expected to work in close collaboration with the members of the executive team.  Work will be done in collaboration with highest levels in the organization and involve working directly with senior leaders across multiple functions and programs in support of the Enterprise’s goals, strategies and plans, and, ultimately, the successful execution of those plans. 

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.

• →Develops and refines both long term and annual strategic positions for the organization, in consultation with the CEO, Chief Growth Officer and VP of Strategy & Transformation, full Executive Team, and leaders of major program, site and operational functions.
• →Works on identifying, framing, and analyzing the highest priority challenges facing the organization as it seeks to achieve its mission and strategy.
• →Ensures rigorous and high-quality research, analysis, and synthesis of major strategic issues facing the Enterprise (competitive position, strategic advantages and weaknesses, growth opportunities and threats, operational and organization alignment to achieve these goals).
• →Leads “deep dive projects” in areas of high strategic priority.
• →Provides thought leadership and creative insights to help identify, clarify, and resolve complex issues critical to organization’s strategic and operational success.
• →Facilitate alignment of leadership (ET and GLT) around priorities and critical actions for the organization to take to achieve its Strategy.
• →Collaborates with departments and project teams across organization.
• →Captures and shares knowledge and lessons learned from projects and other initiatives with appropriate audience(s). Creates documentation to preserve information, experiential data, and knowledge relevant to future projects.
  
  

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:

• MBA or Master’s degree in Economics, Management, Science, or a related field required or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.   
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• At least three years of experience working in a top tier strategy consulting firm, handling complex projects independently.

• At least ten years of progressive professional level work experience in strategic planning, management consulting or corporate development.
• In addition to experience in strategy function, two to three years of experience in business roles outside of strategy functions are desirable.
• Distinctive research, analytical and conceptual skills.
• Executive (C-suite) level communications and facilitation.
• Highly effective interpersonal and collaborative style, including an ability to work highly effectively within a matrix organization, with quality engagement and thought partnership across the organization and with all executive levels.
• Mastery of management consulting fundamentals including problem definition and scoping, problem solving, insight gathering, research/benchmarking and analytics.
• Strong understanding of business process improvement, project management, business requirement gathering techniques and change management approaches and principles.
• Ability to work highly effectively within a matrix organization, with quality engagement and thought partnership across the organization and with all executive levels.
• Ability to rapidly develop understanding, structure, analyze, synthesize, and communicate on novel and complex topics.
• Ability to deliver significant business results through strategic and creative thinking, problem solving and individual initiative.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively plan and facilitate meetings and workgroups.
• Viewed as a credible thought partner and expert in their field.
• Ability to clearly communicate business solutions and the value of those solutions to the client; both in written executive summary form and through platform presentations.
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills.
• Comfortable with ambiguity.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft software.
• Project management and planning capabilities.