At Charles River we are passionate about improving the quality of peoples lives. When you join our global family you will help create healthier lives for millions of patients and their families.
Charles River employees are innovative thinkers who are dedicated to continuous learning and improvement. We will empower you with the resources you need to grow and develop in your career.
As a Charles River employee you will be part of an industry‑leading customer‑focused company at the forefront of drug development. Your skills will play a key role in bringing life‑saving therapies to market faster through simpler, quicker and more digitalized processes. Whether you are in lab operations, finance, IT, sales or another area when you work at Charles River you will be the difference every day for patients across the globe.
Job Summary
Are you a solutions architect with an agile mindset, a flair for Power Bi, Azure and Microsoft Fabric? It’s never been a more exciting time to be on the Enterprise Data Analytics team at Charles River Labs! We are on a mission to make the Enterprise Data Analytics team the backbone of today’s business as data‑driven decision‑making enables business leaders to make informed choices quickly, to boost revenue, improve productivity and stay a step ahead of the market. We have already launched our own Enterprise Data Hub, the digital backbone of this company, and we need more leaders in the data analytics discipline who are forward‑thinking, self‑guided and innovative to continue building out the hub across our lines of business, integrating all of our data, mastering data and focusing on data quality to fundamentally shift the way Charles River operates through data science and advanced analytics.
You will be joining a team with an unyielding dedication to the company purpose: “Together We Create Healthier Lives.” Our global technology team is excited by this laser focus on the patient. As we look to our company’s future we are embarking on a reimagination of how we do business through a Digital Journey. Our Digital Journey is about sustaining and advancing our position to unlock our next horizon of growth and become a leading digitally‑powered CRO enabling our clients to deliver innovative, safe and effective treatments to patients as quickly and effectively as the process we want to continue to be at the forefront of the drug development and discovery process, ultimately reducing the early‑stage drug development timeline by a full year. Our collective focus over the coming multi‑year journey is to enable this extraordinary group of people – our 20,000 colleagues – to execute and achieve our ambitious business goals.
We are taking Charles River to a place where the Enterprise Data Analytics team will apply the techniques of data management, data engineering and strategy development as well as analytics techniques that range from forecasting and simulation to linear programming and optimisation. We want you to join us.
What you’ll be doing
Lead and mentor a team of Data Analysts and Analytics Engineers and provide actionable analytical solutions for our business partners.
Manage a team in a global capacity, mainly USA in multiple time zones, mainly but not exclusively EST.
Proven and recent experience of implementing solutions from requirements gathering and process design to functional production deployment in a cloud environment.
Act as Technical Product Owner within assigned Agile teams.
Work with both the Business and IT Leadership team in developing the overall strategy and roadmap for the Data and Analytics organisation.
Champion the use of data technology & newer tools to optimise solutions and continuous process improvements.
Experience working in a Microsoft Premium and Fabric Capacity.
Continuously work on building strong business relationships with the key Business Product Owners.
Must have strong business acumen and have the skillsets to analyse and interpret highly complex business challenges related to the use of Global Data.
Present findings and recommendations for action to partners and leaders within the company.
Define and document UX data visualisation standards.
Develop / acquire the right talent, motivate and maintain a high‑performing team.
This is offered as a Remote role.
Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Requirements
Degree in computer science, maths or related fields; Master’s degree preferred.
Strong management experience in a technology organisation with a proven track record of building and leading high‑performing teams.
Excellent experience with SSAS design and development with expert DAX skills.
Hands‑on data visualisation and report development.
Proven experience using Power BI and experience managing Microsoft Premium and Fabric Capacity solutions.
Extensive knowledge and use in Azure cloud environment.
Strong knowledge of Azure data stack and integration architectures.
Possesses strong business acumen with ability to assist in development of business requirements definitions.
Highly skilled in various Agile methodologies.
Able to work quickly and under tight delivery deadlines with focus on details.
Ability to manage multiple efforts concurrently.
Highly regarded skills:
* Cloud Experience (Azure)
* Proficiency in Data Warehouse & BI Analytics
* Experience with data science including Python
About Corporate Functions
The Corporate Functions provide operational support across Charles River in areas such as Human Resources, Finance, IT, Legal, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing and Corporate Development. They partner with their colleagues across the company to develop and drive strategies and to set global standards. The functions are essential to providing a bridge between strategic vision and operational readiness to ensure ongoing functional innovation and capability improvement.
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 20 countries around the globe we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our clients’ unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies, hospitals and academic institutions around the world.
At Charles River we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of peoples lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in everything 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 worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.
At Charles River Laboratories we recognize and recruit all talent. We are a company committed to the principle of diversity and inclusion and work daily in this direction.
Employment Information
Employment Type: Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
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