Project Manager
Keele, GB, ST5 5SP
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.
Job Summary
We are currently recruiting for a Project Manager, to support our CDMO facility based at Keele, Staffordshire. The Project Manager will assist with the management of project portfolios, enquiries from customers regarding completed projects and generate contract variations. The successful candidate will report directly to the Associate Director of Supply Chain and Project Management.
This role is full time onsite and some travelling to other sites/our clients will be required.
Profile and Requirements
Main duties and responsibilities will include but aren't limited to:
- Working with the technical and sales team in order to write and present customer proposals.
- Acting as the primary interface with the customer for all issues relating to project delivery.
- Managing the delivery process to ensure project deliverables are achieved within agreed timelines and budgets.
- Determining the priorities within the project portfolio in order to maximise revenue and profit.
- Identify and evaluate risks and timelines for projects and manage any required changes and alterations with the client and the business.
- Using appropriate planning tools to manage project activity and to ensure visibility to the project team and to provide detailed project planning and resource information to the business.
The successful candidate will ideally hold a Science degree or equivalent qualification, be commercially aware and have gained previous experience in managing multi-disciplinary projects working within a bio-pharmaceutical company.
You will be familiar with cGMP, drug development and regulatory process and also have gained previous exposure to the development/manufacture of virus and/or protein, DNA and cell-line products either through direct work experience or relevant project/account management activities.
You will be expected to interact at all levels of Charles River and should be able to demonstrate strong interpersonal, organisational and communication skills.
The ability to work effectively and efficiently, to meet tight deadlines, while maintaining a strong eye for attention to detail is a must.
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 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.
For more information, please visit www.criver.com.