Change Management Partner in Saffron Walden

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

Do you have expertise in Change Management and influencing change? Are you able to successfully lead transformative initiatives on a global scale? Charles River Laboratories are looking for a Change Management Partner to guide some of our most complex and ambitious initiatives. Working remotely (from the UK/IRL or EU) you’ll shape and execute change strategies that drive measurable adoption — while empowering teams across global sites to embrace new technology, processes and roles.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Execute change management strategies that create measurable impact on user implementation and proactively address resistance risks.
• Pull from multiple change methodologies to select what will be most effective for the specific stakeholders and initiatives, even if multi-phased and complex.
• Understand and use a solid, easy to deploy transformation methodology that enables a large, global organization to undergo complex changes.
• Assess change impact of complex solutions and align adoption approach to address impacts in order of risk.
• Focus on defining success metrics and measurable outcomes for the people side of change.
• Support delivery of core activities related to stakeholder assessment, change impacts, readiness assessments, communication, training and sustainability of the change.
• Develop communications that are audience and project specific, easy to understand and deliver value.
• Confidently work across departments, geographies and build a coalition of support at the local level.
• Collaborate and support with other change leads across the organization, working closely with key internal senior stakeholders to implement and cascade change effectively.
• Drive ongoing improvements in the value delivered by the adoption practice.

Requirements

• BA/MA in business, organizational development, change management, communications or a related field.
• Significant, proven experience in change management, organizational development, transformation, or project delivery at a global level.
• Demonstrable experience delivering large-scale change in global organizations, ideally at other CRO/biotech or Pharma companies.
• Strong understanding of Agile and waterfall project environments.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and listening skills; a self-starter with the ability to work autonomously.
• Ability to connect the dots across complex programs and tell a compelling story using data and analytics.
• A collaborative mindset and passion for positively influencing and helping people to navigate change.
• Prosci, CCMP or similar certification is highly desirable.

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 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 80% of the drugs approved by the FDA in the last five years. At Charles River Laboratories, we recognize and recruit all talent. We are a company committed to fostering a sense of belonging and work daily in this direction.