Program Manager

Overview

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. USP values inclusive scientific collaboration and equitable access to mentorship, professional development, and leadership opportunities. USP is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer (EEOE) and is committed to 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

USP is seeking a Program Manager – Digital Standards to oversee cross-functional planning, execution, and delivery across the growing Digital Standards product and policy ecosystem. This role ensures coordinated progress across multiple work streams, including digital reference standards, qNMR software, supply chain analytics, digital documentary standards, USP digital method conversion, policy development, industry pilots, marketing, and scientific development. The Program Manager will maintain the Digital Standards master plan, track timelines and dependencies, ensure budgets are managed responsibly, and flag risks and resource needs to leadership.

As pharmaceutical development and manufacturing continues its digitalization journey, USP is seeking to take an active, collaborative role in helping advance digitalization of analytical development and quality control workflows through the delivery of chemical reference and analytical method standards directly into digital environments. This position will help ensure that resources are used efficiently and processes are established to help USP scale its Digital Standards portfolio.

This role is hybrid, with an expected travel commitment of up to 10% for planning workshops, cross-functional meetings, and program reviews.

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 Program Manager, Digital Standards has the following responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the Digital Standards portfolio roadmap, ensuring alignment across product, scientific, policy, marketing, and communications work streams.
• Lead cross-functional program planning activities, coordinating objectives, milestones, dependencies, and resourcing needs.
• Track progress of all Digital Standards initiatives, including product development, policy work, pilots, marketing campaigns, and scientific deliverables.
• Establish and manage project governance structures, including meeting cadences, decision logs, and issue/risk escalation pathways.
• Develop integrated dashboards, portfolio reports, and KPIs for leadership visibility.
• Monitor budget allocations, track monthly actuals, and forecast future spending across program areas.
• Identify cross-team risks, bottlenecks, and resourcing gaps; surface mitigation recommendations to leadership.
• Maintain documentation including charters, schedules, risk registers, budget trackers, and communication plans.
• Support annual and quarterly planning activities, ensuring alignment with Digital Standards strategy and USP priorities.
• Facilitate cross-team communication to maintain transparency and ensure coordinated…