Corporate Communications Content Strategist

Corporate Communications Content Strategist Req ID #:  90851 Location: 

Wilmington, MA, US, 01887 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 The Charles River Labs Corporate Communications team is seeking a proactive, motivated, creative, independent thinker to join our team as a Corporate Communications Content Strategist. This person will work with our cross functional team to organize and manage all of the content the team produces. This person will perfectly curate content to effectively target employees across the job, across various channels. They will be responsible for identifying new ways to share content across the company globally, as well as maintain current communication channels, like our global monthly newsletter, and our editorial calendar.

They will also be the primary manager and expert of one of communication channels: our email platform, Poppulo. They must be able to master the platform, manage content cascading, and be the primary contact for Poppulo within the company.

The Corporate Communications Content Strategist will also manage all communications at the Wilmington site, including a weekly newsletter.

This role is highly dependent on technology, so the right candidate must be a quick learner and thrive on taking on new technological challenges. Graphic design experience is a plus!

Responsibilities

• Strategize, organize, and curate all Corporate Communications content

• Manage our email program, Poppulo, and become an expert on the platform

• Manage all communications at our headquarters in Wilmington

• Understand our internal and external channels to develop new strategies to repurpose content

• Manage the Corporate Communications editorial calendar and monthly global newsletter

• Develop and maintain content repository Job Qualifications

• 2-4 years of experience

• Experience with Poppulo

• Experience learning and becoming proficient on new technology

• Ability to drive projects across a cross-functional team

• Experience managing content across multiple channels

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to draft content for internal employee channels

• Excellent planning, organization, and implementation skills

• Quick thinker with exceptional attention to detail

• Innovative, with a critical/creative thinker mindset

• The ability to work independently and be flexible, and embrace change enthusiastically

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 17,000 employees within 90 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. And in 2019, revenue increased to $2.62 billion.

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 ~85% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2019.

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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