Product Management Specialist

About USP

USP (the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention) is an independent scientific body that works with global experts in health and science to define high-quality standards for medicines, dietary supplements, and food ingredients. The organization is built around scientific excellence, fairness, integrity, and international collaboration, and it operates with more than 1,300 professionals across twenty locations worldwide.

USP promotes an inclusive environment that values diverse scientific perspectives and supports equitable access to mentorship, learning, and leadership growth. The organization is an equal opportunity employer and uses merit-based hiring practices. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates with disabilities.

Role Overview

USP is hiring a Product Management Analyst/Specialist to support its Materials Program. This individual contributor role focuses on building and managing the product pipeline, identifying and assessing candidate materials for the catalog, organizing the pre-pipeline, collecting and prioritizing product and customer needs, and working closely with internal partners to evaluate new material categories. The position calls for a scientific background along with hands-on experience in product management and data analysis.

Impact of the Role

In this role, you will contribute to USP’s broader mission of improving access to safe, high-quality medicines by supporting public standards and related programs. The work is grounded in scientific rigor, regulatory quality, and evidence-based decision-making.

You will also operate in a setting that supports inclusive leadership, workforce development, and collaborative working practices across teams.

Key Responsibilities

The role is divided across identification and evaluation, market assessment, and product lifecycle management.

• Partner with science and commercial teams to identify new product opportunities and strengthen the launch pipeline.
• Use chemistry knowledge, customer insight, scientific sources, market research, pharmacopeial data, peer-reviewed literature, patents, ANDA submissions, and other inputs to identify and group potential impurities based on major manufacturing routes.
• Complete technical product details such as CAS number, molecular formula, molecular weight, and IUPAC name, along with the business rationale for each target.
• Build broader knowledge across API reference materials, related impurities, excipients, extractables and leachables, and other material categories for potential portfolio expansion.
• Track market conditions, customer segments, competitor activity, and channel strategy to support launch planning.
• Spot white-space opportunities and portfolio gaps that could lead to new product development.
• Evaluate testing needs in the pharmaceutical market, especially the generic-drug segment, to identify possible product opportunities.
• Review market trends in pharmaceutical standards catalogs, including new offerings, pricing, and discounts.
• Estimate market size and opportunity through primary and secondary research and build unit forecasts.
• Monitor usage patterns, sales results, customer feedback, and demand signals to guide product addition, deletion, or promotion decisions.
• Prepare recurring reports and dashboards covering product performance.
• Define and assess launch benchmarks across customer, market, and financial measures.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in chemistry, pharmacy, or a related discipline.
• 4 to 5 years of practical experience as a process chemist, with exposure to multiple APIs and varied finished pharmaceutical products.
• 2 to 3 years of experience in product or portfolio management, especially in developing new product portfolios.
• Background in life sciences product development, CRO/CDMO environments, or similar relevant settings.
• Strong understanding of how pharmaceutical materials are developed, produced, and tested, including APIs, excipients, and finished dosage forms.
• Proven experience in product development and portfolio management within the pharmaceutical or life sciences sector.
• Hands-on use of tools such as Chemdraw, Chemfinder, Scifinder, Reaxys, patent databases, and web search tools.
• Knowledge of reference materials used in pharmaceutical testing, including analytical reference materials, certified reference materials, and reference standards.
• Ability to work with large datasets and scientific information sources.
• Experience reviewing pharmaceutical patents and patent claims.
• Capability to build and maintain dashboards using Excel, Tableau, or similar tools.
• Sound understanding of regulatory expectations and compliance requirements.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and Microsoft Office skills, including Excel.
• Willingness to work flexible hours when required with global teams.
• Ability to manage a changing workload across multiple teams in a matrixed environment.
• Strong quantitative reasoning, critical thinking, and comfort with complexity.
• Self-driven, accountable, and able to work with minimal supervision.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong cross-functional collaboration ability.

Preferred Background

• Knowledge of intellectual property rights, patent landscapes, freedom-to-operate analysis, and portfolio management.
• Product management certification, MBA, or advanced degree preferred.
• Experience analyzing business and product sales data using database tools.

Additional Information

This is a non-supervisory, individual contributor position with no direct reports.

USP offers benefits that support employees and their families, including company-paid time off, comprehensive healthcare options, and retirement savings support.

USP does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruitment agencies and is not liable for recruiter fees unless there is a specific written agreement in place.

Job category: External Affairs, Regulatory, and Communications

Job type: Full-time

Location: Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India