IT Project Manager (DTJ)

IT Project Manager (DTJ) Req ID #:  188016 Location: 

US 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 If you are a fearless self-starter, passionate about leading cross-functional strategic initiatives, and thrive working in a highly motivated and collaborative team environment, then we need you!

The IT Project Manager leads complex programs and projects drawing from prior experience to successfully deliver these initiatives across the CRL Global Technology organization.

Where can the Project Manager make an impact? Working with high performing teams to lead and successfully drive strategic initiatives the add value to CRL.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

•Leads complex strategic initiatives often involving multiple internal and external constituents and matrix partners. 

•Responsible for planning, orchestrating and delivering given strategic initiatives based on appropriate methodology or framework.

•Ensures appropriate progress against schedule and takes remedial action as appropriate.

•Ensures deliverables and project outcomes are of the highest caliber with a clearly articulated scope and quantifiable business benefit.  

•Manages scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed-on time, cost and quality parameters.  

•Responsible for building, mobilizing and motivating high performing project teams.

•Promote team empowerment through team-building techniques, ensuring each team member is making a meaningful contribution and fully engaged in the project.

•Oversees organizational change management activities to ensure system adoption is maximized. 

•Chairs project Executive Steering Committee meetings to review progress, risks and issues with key constituents.  

•Produces regular status reporting to Global Technology and Business stakeholders.

•Manages project budgets and provides monthly financial forecasts.

•Ensures solutions are transitioned appropriately to the support team through company-defined processes.

•Provide training and mentoring of project managers within the Global Technology organization.

•Performs all other related duties as assigned. Job Qualifications Minimum qualifications are required to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.

Minimum Qualifications

•5 years of project/program Management experience specifically with technology implementations

•Experience with Agile project management

•Bachelor’s degree from accredited university 

Preferred Qualifications:

•PMP and/or CSM

Other Qualifications:

•Demonstrated experience in delivering global, complex projects and programs

•Proven ability to quickly earn the trust and confidence of sponsors and key stakeholders

•Ability to effectively navigate a highly matrixed organization

•Excellent influencing and negotiation skills

•Ability to communicate at all levels and to multi-national audiences with clarity and precision, both written and verbally 

•Strong presentation skills

•Ability to remove barriers and enable teams to complete their objectives

•Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills

•Sound business and technical acumen

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer - M/F/Disabled/Vet.

If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to crrecruitment_US@crl.com. This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

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

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