Director, Resiliency Center

Description

The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is an independent scientific organization dedicated to developing rigorous quality standards for medicines, dietary supplements, and food ingredients. The Resiliency Center (RC) Director will support USP's efforts to enhance the resilience of the global pharmaceutical supply chain.

Responsibilities

• Support development of annual Resiliency Center plan and goals, including thought leadership, advisory committee, and external-facing plans/goals, as well as portfolio cross-selling and new offering development, working closely with program owners and executive sponsors.
• Track, coordinate, and oversee execution of USP Resiliency Center workplan and associated metrics and impact.
• Support management of internal governance, including convening meetings, setting agendas, tracking outputs and action items for the Resiliency Center Business Unit Team (RBUT) and Resiliency Center Steering Committee (RCSC).
• Drive innovation: Identify gaps in existing portfolio or opportunities for USP offerings/capabilities to be presented and leveraged as supply chain solutions, and help explore, conceptualize, and shepherd potential new offerings through appropriate USP governance bodies to bring to market.
• Support stakeholder engagement: Develop and execute a cohesive stakeholder engagement strategy that mobilizes stakeholders to action and elevates visibility for and uptake of USP resiliency assets and related thought leadership.
• Leverage input from the RBUT and RCSC, as well as external market trends and developments, to develop and execute an annual thought leadership plan for the Resiliency Center, which complements and reflects external-facing activities. Work closely with technical leads/content owners from within and outside the organization to develop, vet, and deploy content, mobilizing and overseeing external resources as required to achieve plan.
• Administer Resiliency Center Fellowship program, consisting of 1-3 fellows allocated from a variety of advanced degree programs in leading universities, to pair fellows with internal technical mentors and ensure productive, high-quality experiences.
• Track business development outcomes: Support development and implementation of cross-selling approaches and develop a mechanism for tracking and reporting lead generation and cross-selling outcomes to inform the Resiliency Center business case.
• Support external reporting on "state of resiliency": Work in tandem with D&I data journalist and USP communications teams to support execution of regular "state of resiliency" reports, leveraging the MSM and ad hoc communications related to high visibility world events potentially impacting the biopharmaceutical supply chain ("Resiliency") alerts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in science, health, business, or related fields.
• Minimum of 5 years in a strategy or marketing role.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in life sciences or related field.
• Proven track record of developing and implementing strategic initiatives involving substantial cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Desired Preferences

• Advanced degree in a relevant field.
• Pharmaceutical industry, supply chain, and government/regulatory experience.
• P&L oversight.
• Project management.
• Marketing or business development experience.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Program manager.

Benefits

USP provides comprehensive benefits to protect employees and their families today and tomorrow, including company-paid time off, comprehensive healthcare options, and retirement savings.

Pay

Base Salary Range: USD $165,521.00 – 213,700.00 annually.

Schedule

Full-time.