Program Delivery and Business Development Manager

Program Delivery and Business Development Manager

Job Category: Technical Programs

Requisition Number: PROGR
003300

• Posted:
  February 24, 2026
• Full-Time
• Hybrid

Location:

Rockville, MD 20852, USA

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 Program Delivery (PD) and Business Development (BD) Manager is an individual contributor reporting to the Senior Director, Program Delivery and Business Development responsible for managing a portfolio of donor‑funded projects that advances access to quality medicines and strengthens supply chain resilience, using best practices to ensure client/donor satisfaction. More specifically, the PD/BD Manager will provide day‑to‑day management of assigned projects, including developing workplans, deploying project management tools and processes, monitoring project activities against budgets, drafting progress reports, and other tasks, to ensure high quality results.

Additionally, the PD/BD Manager will manage the proposal development process, as assigned, with staff members working across multiple teams in Rockville and other regions to ensure quality and compliant submission in response to funding opportunities. In both the PD and BD capacities, the Manager will stay abreast of trends in an evolving global health and domestic landscape. Lastly, the PD/BD Manager will define, revise, and implement project management and business development processes in collaboration with other key stakeholders, and develop and revise resources and tools as part of the PD/BD team’s ongoing efforts for continuous improvement based on feedback and business practices.

• Manages a portfolio of donor‑funded projects across global health and domestic projects; holds operational accountability for the timely and successful implementation of the portfolio of assigned projects, to include leading cross‑functional project management teams with technical, M&E, finance and other relevant staff, development of workplans, drafting of progress reports, entry of M&E data, and providing quality control support for project deliverables.
• Proactively identifies issues/risks, including the facilitation of resolution with appropriate management staff.
• Develops project budgets and monitors project expenditures to ensure activities are implemented within budget and prepares pipelines/projections as needed, and in collaboration with Finance staff.
• Manage consultants, vendors, and subrecipient/partners, as applicable while ensuring compliance with donor rules and regulations and USP policies; this includes but is not limited to drafting scopes of work with technical staff, managing the onboarding process, monitoring progress…