Product Management Specialist

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

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.

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 Product Management Analyst/Specialist has the following responsibilities:

1. [70%] Identification & Evaluation

a) Coordinate with Science and commercial teams to plan and identify new potential products for inclusion in the portfolio and maximize product launches. This will include utilizing chemistry knowledge, customer insights (market research studies, scientific knowledge/input, collection, and review of pharmacopeial information, market information, peer reviewed publications, and patents, ANDA submissions, etc.) to determine and segment potential impurities by main manufacturing pathways.

b) Finalize technical attributes (CAS#, Molecular Formula, Molecular Weight, IUPAC names etc) and Product attributes (rationale behind the potential targets) for new products.

Additional objectives are to develop broad expertise in other areas to support new product introductions that will include API reference materials& associated impurities, excipients, extractables and leachable, and more for potential inclusion into the materials portfolio.

2. [20 %] Market Assessment

c) Understand industry/market trends and challenges, different customer segments, competitive analysis, and channel strategies as input to product launch roadmaps

d) Evaluate product white space and portfolio gaps to identify additional product opportunities

e) Assess product testing, needs pharmaceutical market especially generic drug market to identify new product development opportunities.

f) Analyze trends in pharmaceutical standards catalog market including new product offerings, prices and discounts.

g) Quantify market opportunities, primary and secondary research, generate data and establish product unit forecast

3. [10 %] Product Life Cycle Management

h) Monitor product usage trends, sales performance, and customer feedback and demand to inform lifecycle decisions (product addition/deletion/promotion)

i) Prepare periodic reports and dashboards on product performance.

j) Identify/Evaluate product launch benchmarks including customer, market and financial performance indicators

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:

• 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.


• Minimum 2-3 years’ experience in product/portfolio management building new product portfolio


• 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

Additional Desired Preferences

• 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.

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.