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.
This position also supports key operational units at USP, including especially the Science and Standards Division, as well as operational activities reflected in allied compendia activities such as USP’s Pharmacopeial Education and Verification programs.
The Vice President, Site Operations - India, is a key member of Global Leadership team and champions initiatives related to advancing activities out of India such as Global Center of Excellence-Synthetics R&D, Chemical Medicines and Biologics in accordance with USP’s Principles & Core Values.
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.
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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.
Leadership Competencies
• USP Acumen:A passionate individual who can connect and explain USP’s mission, organization and strategy in the context of your role as well as policies, practices, and trends impacting USP and its stakeholders. Understands USP’s organization and its activities to deliver solutions within teams and across USP.
• Problem Solving:Aptitude in decision-making by working knowledge of data analysis and performance metrics. Applies advanced knowledge and expertise to solve complex challenges and deliver solutions within teams and across USP.
• Collaboration:Excellent interpersonal and public speaking communication skills. Uses interpersonal savvy to foster productive working relationships with USP colleagues and external stakeholders to drive USP results. Influences others with unique insights that challenge status-quo thinking. The ability to apply varying social skills across diverse situations to increase impact with people of different backgrounds and styles.
• Relationship Building:Regularly invests time in initiating and sustaining relationships with USP colleagues and external stakeholders to drive USP results.
• Innovation:Motivated to incorporate new ideas and thinking to everyday problems. Acts proactively to make informed decisions aligned with USP goals and risk tolerance. Inspires others to act courageously and achieve higher performance.
• Results Orientation: Consistently delivers on goals and deadlines while maintaining a high level of quality and accuracy with appropriate risk tolerance.
• Growth: Makes self and others better through continuous growth and acting on constructive feedback. Demonstrates ongoing desire to improve self and others around them by sharing leading practices and industry trends. Uses both formal and informal learning and development channels and resources to grow knowledge and area of expertise.
• Staff Development: Places value in helping colleagues to grow by sharing targeted, actionable feedback and new insights on a regular basis. Improves capabilities and performance on an ongoing basis by initiating and taking action on development plans.
• Effective delegation: Delegates responsibilities to appropriate subordinates, and invests them with the power and authority to exercise their own initiative to accomplish tasks effectively, whilst enthusing them and facilitating successful goal accomplishment by promoting a clear sense of purpose, inspiring a positive attitude to work, and arousing in them a strong desire to succeed
Required Experience
• 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.
Additional Information:
Experience: min. 15 years
Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Education: B.Pharm, B.Sc MBA
Industry Type: Pharma/ Healthcare/ Clinical research
Functional Area: Site Operations
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End Date: 20th Sept, 2012
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