Job Specifications
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
As a Change Management Partner for our Information Technology (IT) team, you will help deliver value through the adoption of new technology, processes and roles. The Partner will work on some of our most complex and ambitious initiatives and will be creating and executing the change management strategies that balance measurable adoption results with rapid, incremental delivery. A great candidate is one who is quickly able to shift from creating strategic vision with an executive audience to understanding how to drive a transformational roadmap across many groups to tactical delivery in partnership with working team members.
In This Role, Primary Responsibilities Include
Execute change management strategies that create measurable impact on user adoption 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 organization to undergo complex changes
Assess change impact of complex solutions and aligns adoption approach to address impacts in order of risk
Focuses 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
Ability to develop communications that are audience and project specific, easy to understand and delivers value
Confident working across departments, geographies and building a coalition of support at the local level
Collaborate and support with other change leads across the organization
Drives ongoing improvements in the value delivered by the adoption practice
Key Elements
The minimum qualifications required for this position are as follows:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in business administration, organizational development, behavior, change management, communications or related discipline. Master’s degree or equivalent strongly preferred
Minimum 5 years related experience in people and change transformation, organizational development, project delivery work or a combination of the above
Experience implementing successful large-scale changes in global organizations
Ability to incorporate change strategies with any project methodology (e.g., Agile, waterfall, etc.)
Exceptional communication, facilitation and listening skills and ability to connect with all levels in an organization
Ability to “connect the dots” across a complex program of adoption needs
Experience using measures and analytics to tell the “people” story related to a change both to baseline current state and show progress in future state
Desire for working in highly collaborative environment
Role Specific Information
Location: Remote (from one of our Canadian site);
Annual bonus based on performance;
Schedule: Daytime between Monday and Friday;
Permanent position as of the hiring, full-time 37.5hrs per week.
Why Charles River ?
Competitive benefits as of the hiring. We pay up to 85% of premiums (health & dental coverage);
Employee and family assistance program;
Excellent welcome program for new employees as well as in-house advancement and career development opportunities;
Access to a doctor and various health professionals (telemedicine);
4 weeks’ Vacation & 10 Personal day policy;
Many social activities!
If you are interested in contributing to the well-being of our communities, not only across the country but around the world, please join us. This is Your Moment.
About Safety Assessment
Charles River is committed to helping our partners expedite their preclinical drug development with exceptional safety assessment services, state-of-the-art facilities and expert regulatory guidance. From individual specialty toxicology and IND enabling studies to tailored packages and total laboratory support, our deeply experienced team can design and execute programs that anticipate challenges and avoid roadblocks for a smooth, efficient journey to market. Each year approximately 300 investigational new drug (IND) programs are conducted in our Safety Assessment facilities.
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
About the Company
At Charles River, we are guided by our strong purpose—to create healthier lives—which centers around the patients who rely on the therapeutics we help to develop, the animals in our care, to our planet, and to the passionate and skilled people who are at the heart of our organization and make it all possible.
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