Director, Sustainable Manufacturing

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 USP Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) team seeks to continuously move medicine manufacturing into the future through practical applications and solutions in advanced manufacturing and analytical technologies that increase medicine quality, strengthen supply chain resiliency, and improve the efficiency and sustainability of manufacturing. The AMT team helps make drugs in new ways, test the quality of drugs in new ways, and build more efficient, sustainable, and competitive industries both in the US and around the globe. To do this work, the AMT team brings together expertise in chemistry, biologics, engineering, data science, economics, business, and regulatory sciences.

The Director for Sustainable Manufacturing brings actionable environmental sustainability expertise to the AMT team and the broader Global Health and Manufacturing Services Division. In this role, the incumbent is responsible for coordinating, planning, and executing programs focused on development and deployment of advanced manufacturing and analytical technologies to reduce carbon footprints, reduce manufacturing costs and waste, and enhance resilience and sustainability of regional manufacturing. The incumbent’s inaugural, donor-funded work will play a critical role in advancing a climate-smart product strategy, representing a foundational investment at the nexus of regional health product manufacturing and climate action in Africa. Finally, the incumbent will develop collaborative partnerships with external organizations to advance the work of USP in the sustainable manufacturing sector through deployment of AMTs.

This is a Fixed Term assignment for 4 Years

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 Director for Sustainable Manufacturing has the following responsibilities:

•  Donor-funded program execution.
  • Provide leadership for the management and implementation of climate and environmental impact activities for donor-funded projects in coordination with the Project Director.
  • Provide subject matter expertise on the development, evaluation, and monitoring of the environmental impact of pharmaceutical manufacturing.
  • Generate valuable insights into the technical, financial, and regulatory feasibility of climate-smart approaches.
  • Assess stakeholder readiness, market barriers, and enabling conditions for specific projects and to inform the broader climate and health agenda.
  • Assess carbon lifecycle emissions and decarboniz