Project Manager
For 75 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies.
When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform.
In return, we’ll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.
Job Summary
We are looking for a Project Manager to join our Insourcing Solutions team, located in Boston, MA at Boston Children’s Hospital.
How will you have an impact?
This is the moment to use your talents and imagine those talents contributing to improving global health and peoples’ lives.
In the Project Manager role, you can do that by overseeing and coordinating all activities related to successful contract performance, help with immersion of new talent into the organization and support expansion efforts and business optimization initiatives.
Why work at Charles River?
We offer an excellent onboarding program for our new employees, internal career development, and competitive benefits.
What you will do!
In the Project Manager role, you will be tasked with applying structured methodology to manage change as a project. This includes defining key project milestones, deliverables, and stakeholders, such as : identifying, analyzing, and preparing risk tactics, supporting communication, and training efforts, engaging project stakeholders;
tracking / reporting issues, defining / measuring success metrics and monitoring change progress.
While this role does not have direct supervisory responsibilities; you will act as a coach and advisor to the senior leaders on the team and provide direct support and coaching to frontline managers and supervisors as they work to meet the needs of our client.
In addition, you will support organizational design and definition of roles and responsibilities. Participate in the development and implementation of all site-specific SOP's, as well as ensuring they are adhered to, in addition to all other required documentation related to the department.
In this role you will need to generate and submit internal and external reports; actively interact with customers to solve requests, inquiries, and complaints and to provide technical assistance.
Ensure optimum performance of group functions; recommend and implement techniques to improve productivity, increase efficiencies, cut costs, take advantage of opportunities, and maintain state-of-the-art practices.
Assist in any contract related activity as assigned by Client and / or Operations Manager to complete the required work.
Who are we looking for?
A candidate that possesses a Bachelor’s degree in Organization Leadership, Animal Science, or related discipline. 5-8 years of experience in a laboratory animal facility of which a minimum of 3 years Project Management experience is required (high emphasis on organization change and transformation).
Prosci Change Practitioner Certification or other Change Management Certification is highly preferred. AALAS certification at the Laboratory Animal Technologist level (LATG) or above required.
CMAR preferred. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted for the requirements as listed above.
The pay for this position is $115-120K USD annually. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.
Vaccine Mandate
This position services client(s) that requires us to ensure our employees are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. We will require proof of vaccination from all employees servicing client(s) with COVID-19 Vaccination requirements.
About Insourcing Solutions
Charles River Insourcing Solutions can streamline research by delivering operational and cost efficiencies through the strategic insourcing of GMP, GLP and non-GLP research services from discovery through safety assessment.
Insourcing Solutions provides you with the ability to maintain control of your facility and expertise while leveraging available space.
About Charles River
Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development.
Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities.
Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.
With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in over 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges.
Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world.
At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe.
We have proudly supported the development of 86% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2021.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer - all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to crrecruitment [email protected]
com. This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
For more information, please visit www.criver.com.