The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) is a non–governmental, official public standards–setting authority for prescription and over–the–counter medicines and other healthcare products manufactured or sold in the United States. USP also sets widely recognized standards for food ingredients and dietary supplements. USP sets standards for the quality, purity, strength, and consistency of these products–critical to the public health. USP's standards are recognized and used in more than 130 countries around the globe. These standards have helped to ensure public health throughout the world for close to 200 years.
Post : Vice President - Site Operations
Job Description
This position leads USP India activities in support of the USP’s Strategic Plans, Winning Ambitions and serves as a Key Support Unit in executing the strategy for:
• Expanding and Enhancing USP’s core compendial activities by increasing the availability of public standards that will help ensure the quality, safety and efficacy of medicines
• Build and strengthen USP’s allied compendia programs by promoting the effective use of quality public standards worldwide and encouraging compliance with such standards.
• Support other relevant strategies in the areas of science and public health initiatives of USP.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Lead USP-India to achieve its science goals in accordance with the USP mission, management principles & regulatory standards.
- Implement science activities in accordance with the policies that promote USP mission and culture
- Developing talent to serve USP India as strong base for USP science activities.
- Develop a leadership pipeline and drives talent management processes in conjunction with Global initiatives.
- Provides Strategic Inputs and advice to the Senior Vice President - Global sites in all matters related to decision making matters.
- Communicate and maintain trust relationships with internal and external teams and authorities.
- Champion the expansion of USP’s collaborative laboratory capabilities to support the development of USP monographs and reference materials. This entails close and continuing ‘dotted line’ communications with various leaders in Executive team.
- Support the laboratories for the Non-US Compendia including chemical and biological studies and traditional medicines.
- Support chemical monographs (both new and updating ones) for USP-NF, to include drug substances, drug products and excipients
- Collaborate closely with Science leaders at USP in Chemical medicines, Biologicals and Global Sites leader.
- Manage supporting functions of the site such as Finance &accounts, QA, HR etc.
- To represent USP in India in various national science conferences and deliberations.
- Lead the development and execution of plans and programs, to support goals and the objectives of the organization.
- Drive the financial stewardship of USP-India and leads appropriate processes for planning, budgeting, results monitoring, asset control, and effective allocation of resources. Ensures that management collaborates with dotted line US counterparts.
- Ensure strict compliance with applicable regulations affecting the operations of the company.
Candidate Profile
• Doctorate Pharmaceutical Sciences or Chemistry with Masters in Business Management
• Proven leadership skills demonstrating and exemplary work ethics.
• Proven experience in leading the science teams and general supporting functions.
• Having an international exposure and work experience in matrix reporting.
• Well recognized in the pharmaceutical industry and in government and had proven training skills and ability to represent in science forums at national and international levels.
• Minimum of fifteen years of Science and supporting functions by collaborating with Global teams at Leadership level.
Required Skills
A proven leader with an excellent experience working for a multinational pharmaceutical company, generic drug company or R&D based organization is relevant. A good knowledge and understanding of pharmacopeial requirements for active pharmaceutical ingredients / drugs products, dietary supplement products and compendial version process is desirable. A good knowledge of international and Indian regulations pertaining to the pharmaceutical industry is desirable. Must possess the ability to develop new innovative ideas and lead them to effective projects, products and services to support pharmaceutical and healthcare.
Additional Information:
Experience: 15 years
Job ID : 1005-679
Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Education: Doctorate in Pharmaceutical Sciences or Chemistry
Industry Type: Pharma
Functional Area: Site Operations
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