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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 key position within Global Legal Affairs that provides counsel on a wide variety of complex legal matters relating to USP’s corporate operations, including questions and issues related to nonprofit tax law, employment law, corporate formation, and intellectual property law. The incumbent should have the judgment, maturity and skill to act with broad discretion in performing the responsibilities of the role. This role is ideal for an experienced in-house corporate law practitioner who is comfortable with direct client contact. The incumbent must be able to successfully navigate complex legal issues to resolve questions and controversies quickly and efficiently, in a practical and pragmatic fashion for a forward-thinking, agile and global-focused organization. The incumbent will be responsible for performing legal work associated with projects throughout their entire life cycle, from inception to completion.
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 Associate General Counsel, Corporate Law has the following responsibilities:
• Provides legal and policy support to USP on a wide variety of complex legal matters.
• Provides guidance and models leadership qualities to the other members of the legal department in the United States and in India.
• Assesses, balances and mitigates legal, reputational and strategic risk to the organization with the successful attainment of USP’s business goals and strategies.
• Protects USP’s nonprofit tax status, and counsels on issues related to permanent establishment and corporate formation in global markets.
• Strategizes and advises on issues related to intellectual property law, including copyright, patent and trademark law. Prosecutes violations of USP’s intellectual property rights; devises strategies to protect the integrity of USP’s intellectual property portfolio.
• Advises USP’s human resources staff on complex employment law matters in the United States. Investigates, responds to complaints, and defends the organization in employment matters, with the assistance of outside counsel as required.
• Manages litigation affecting the organization, including selecting outside counsel and setting strategy to protect the organization.
• Working with the department’s standards lawyers, synthesizes solutions to novel questions intersecting USP’s standards and USP’s business operations. Helps ensure the integrity, transparency and independence of USP’s standard setting activities.
• Provides organizational support through an in-depth understanding of USP rules, procedures, and policies related to USP’s governance and standards development.
• Works collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Works cooperatively with global teams, including members of the global legal staff and global compliance and ethics staff.
• Assists with implementing USP rule and policies; conducts training as appropriate.
• Liaises with key internal and external legal, regulatory, and other stakeholders.
• Develops a thorough understanding of and familiarity with USP, its people, products, markets, facilities, customers, and competitors in order to identify trends and formulate structures and strategies accordingly.
• Establishes rapport and a working relationship with management and staff at all levels to encourage and continue the proactive use of in-house legal counsel.
• Performs special assignments or projects, without significant supervision.
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:
• Juris Doctorate (JD) or Law degree from an accredited law school and admittance to at least one state bar (Maryland preferred).
• Minimum of seven (7) years of progressive experience/responsibility serving as internal corporate law counsel.
Additional Desired Preferences
• Operates independently and collaboratively at all levels of the organization.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to write clearly and concisely.
• Possesses strong oral communications skills.
• Able to recognize, evaluate and offer mitigation alternatives to address risks and help accomplish organizational goals.
• Able to foster trust both externally and internally.
• Able to move a project from inception to completion.
• Able to juggle multiple clients/projects simultaneously.
• Proven innovative problem-solving, prioritization, and planning/decision making skills.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and time management skills.
• Demonstrates flexibility, open mindedness, and adaptability to a rapidly changing environment.
• Sophisticated range of both written and verbal communication and presentation skills appropriate to the target audience including PowerPoint skills.
• Exercises good judgment in a crisis; remains objective and action oriented.
• Ability to recognize and focus on opportunities that simplify and standardize processes, as well maintain and/or improve policy and process compliance.
• Accountable; delivers creative, value-added results through superior execution. Ability to interact with and influence different partners (local or remote).
• Active listener - seeks to understand. Embraces creativity and innovative ways of working.
• Demonstrated ability to work successfully in a matrix organization and achieve objectives both within and outside of direct reporting lines.
• Ability to work effectively with multiple levels within the organization.
• Sensitive to cultural and national diversities and is able to create empathy, influence and motivation in a multi-cultural environment.
• Ensures business partners deliver quality work in a timely manner.
Supervisory Responsibilities
None, this is an individual contributor role.
Benefits
USP provides the benefits to protect yourself and your family today and tomorrow. From company-paid time off and comprehensive healthcare options to retirement savings, you can have peace of mind that your personal and financial well-being is protected.
Compensation
Base Salary Range: USD $150,500.00 – $199,250.00 annually.
Target Annual Bonus: % Varies based on level of role.
Individual compensation packages are based on various factors unique to each candidate’s skill set, experience, qualifications, equity, and other job-related reasons.
Note: USP does not accept unsolicited resumes from 3rd party recruitment agencies and is not responsible for fees from recruiters or other agencies except under specific written agreement with USP.
- $150,500 - $199,250/year
