Senior Scientist I, Healthcare Quality & Safety Engagement

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

This is a scientific individual contributor position that will be part of the Healthcare, Quality & Safety (HQS) Center of Excellence under the direction of the Director of Engagement and Program Solutions. This role will be responsible for contributing to the engagement efforts to current and prospective stakeholders of HQS standards and solutions. This includes partnership and collaboration with documentary scientists in the Healthcare Quality and Safety team, and cross-functional teams to identify stakeholders that value HQS solutions and engage them through various channels including newsletters, teleconferences, stakeholder conferences, targeted web marketing, direct engagement, and more.

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 Senior Scientist I, Healthcare Quality & Safety Engagement has the following responsibilities:

• Assist in the planning, creating, and executing of business cases around HQS solutions.
• Identify opportunities for engaging external stakeholders on current and future HQS related standards and solutions.
• Develop supporting materials that support HQS external engagements through informational material (e.g. webinars, white papers, infographics, presentations, etc.).
• Support engagement activities around the standard setting process of the four HQS expert committees (Personalized Medicine, Healthcare Information & Technology, Healthcare Safety, Quality, and Nomenclature and Compounding).
• Participate in the development and implementation of stakeholder engagements on standards and solutions such as open stakeholder forums, workshops, roundtable discussions, trainings and other continuous education events and offerings.
• Lead interactions with potential consumers and collection of feedback from USP customers, attendees, and users to assess needs and align with product opportunities.
• Coordinate engagement and exhibits at conferences for HQS team.

Who is USP Looking For?

The successful candidate will have a demonstrated understanding of our mission, commitment to excellence through inclusive and equitable behaviors and practices, ability to quickly build credibility with stakeholders, along with the following competencies and experience:
• Degree in pharmacy or science or relevant field with relevant experience working in the pharmaceutical, healthcare or consumer products industry.
• Minimum of 3 years of marketing and/or business experience.

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