Director - Analytical Engineering in Tranent

Are you a solutions architect with an agile mindset, a flair for Power BI, Azure and Microsoft Fabric? There’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 to build 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. This laser focus on the patient makes the broader Global Technology Team so exciting. 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 possible.

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 be applying the techniques of data management, data engineering, and strategy development, as well as the use of analytics techniques that range from forecasting and simulation to linear programming and optimisation.

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 timezones 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:

• B.Sc / M.Sc 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 client's unique challenges.

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 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.

For more information, please visit www.criver.com.