Senior Director, Marketing, Generic Medicines

Description

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

The Sr. Director, Marketing, Generic Medicines will drive a strategic growth strategy for USP standards and solutions in line with USP revenue growth goals. This role is responsible for understanding the Generic Medicines market, and target customer dynamics to shape strategies and plans that successfully deliver revenue and KPI goals. This includes co-leadership of program unit teams with Science colleagues and development of Annual Plans, Marketing plans and Go-to-Market strategies that align with USP 2030 strategy.

The incumbent will be responsible for managing a comprehensive portfolio of products and driving portfolio solutions, and new product roadmaps that meet customer needs. This role will also oversee development and execution of marketing campaigns including positioning, messaging, budgets and key project initiatives that align with plans. In addition, this candidate will use data and analytics to monitor quarterly performance against key metrics and adjust accordingly to identify new opportunities and achieve growth goals.

The ideal candidate is a visionary leader with deep expertise in pharma marketing, a strong grasp of scientific and technical information, and proven success in managing cross-functional teams. This is a professional supervisory position and the incumbent in this role will drive thought leadership needed to deliver goals and also be responsible for the growth and development of direct reports and key staff members.

This role will lead a unified team and fostering strong cross-functional collaboration to operationalize strategies and in turn drive USP Mission to support quality medicines and deliver public health impact. This position requires an individual with strong business acumen, strategic thought leadership, critical thinking and analysis, project management, collaboration and communication skills.

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…