At Charles River, we are passionate about improving the quality of people’s 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.
The role
Does being in the heart of a business interest you?
Are you interested in the maintaining of accurate financial and scientific data?
Then this could be the role for you!
Charles River are recruiting a talented, highly motivated individual in the Biologics Europe Project Coordination team, to have responsibility for ensuring accurate reporting of the financial revenue forecasting and recognition of scientific projects in the Biologics Business. This role can be based at our Edinburgh site or remote, and you will be working closely with Scientific Operations in Germany, Ireland and England as well as our colleagues in the US.
You will receive comprehensive training in all aspects of the role, and we’re looking for enthusiastic, driven applicants who are eager to learn and establish their career with a global organisation.
What we offer you
A very comprehensive benefits package from day one, including a large pension contribution, private medical, and more!The opportunity to get industry standard training and experience.Global opportunities and strong career progression.Personal development and skills enrichment as one of our key focuses.To be able make a difference to health and well being of people.Flexible working opportunities.
Skills and qualifications
- Applicants should preferably be educated to degree level or have other relevant qualifications / experience.
- Well organised and confident with an eye for detail and the ability to complete jobs under pressure.
- Proactive approach to working and the ability to plan work ahead of time and prioritise work depending on business schedules.
- Effective verbal and written communication with internal colleagues.
- Excellent numeracy and literacy skills.
- A dynamic and flexible approach towards achieving departmental objectives.
- Enthusiasm to contribute to ideas for continuous improvement.
- Experience in Microsoft Excel is essential but any knowledge or awareness gained from working in a scientific department with a variety of study designs and an understanding of Good Laboratory Practice and/or knowledge or experience with SAP would be an advantage.
- Models the Charles River Values of Care, Lead, Own and Collaborate.
What you'll be doing
Working with our Enterprise Resource Planning System, SAP.Reviewing contracts and acceptable documentation to build financial costs and study designs in SAP.Ensuring sales orders and study schedule are created & updated accurately, and releasing invoicing milestones.Contribute to process improvement and integration as we grow as an internal Charles River Business.
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 RiverCharles 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 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.
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.
