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
Create and manage the development, and Agile implementation, of short- and long-term marketing strategies and tactics to reflect Charles River Discovery’s growing antibody and advanced modality business segment. Ensure a consistent market voice and deliver strong messaging and positioning to increase Charles River’s drug discovery identity within the market, and in turn drive market share.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Own, develop and implement high level strategic and tactical marketing and communication campaigns that disrupt the antibody and advanced modality drug discovery marketplace.
• Position the segment to increase market voice and in turn drive the drug discovery identity of Charles River. Create engagement with clients to achieve business performance and identify new opportunities to drive market share.
• Ensure an alignment of key messages across Discovery’s antibody and advanced modality drug discovery portfolio, and where appropriate, beyond into development to reflect an end-to-end offering.
• Collaborate with key commercial and scientific stakeholders to identify growth opportunities and translate key business objectives into unified strategic and tactical marketing plans.
• Ensure that global Discovery market initiatives align with strategic and business goals of both Discovery and the wider Charles River group.
• Track competitor messaging and market penetration to define both defensive and offensive marketing strategies. Perform Voice of the Customer sessions to ensure market understanding.
• Report to Discovery leadership on the development of marketing strategies, their priority, execution, and success.
• Where necessary work with peers in both Discovery marketing and across the wider business to develop co-marketing campaigns.
• Identify and apply innovative digital marketing tools that support a successful customer journey, maximize their experience and enable sales organization responsiveness.
• Build scientific credibility and brand awareness through events, both virtual and in-person.
• Own assigned web-based content residing on criver.com, including the development of programs and initiatives to increase traffic to drive lead generation and support/accelerate the customer buying journey.
• Ensure a consistent position, message and overall look is maintained that aligns with the Discovery business and corporate branding.
• Perform all other related duties as assigned.
Job Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree (B.A./B.S.) or equivalent in marketing or related discipline. MBA preferred.
- Experience: Six to ten years related experience within an antibody drug discovery technical environment.
- Or equivalent in a combination of marketing, product management, communications and business management positions within an antibody drug discovery technical environment (e.g., biotech, pharmaceutical company, or laboratory).
- Certification/Licensure: None.
- Other: Proven ability to creatively develop and execute business to business product (service) marketing strategies. Knowledge of marketing concepts and techniques. Proven ability to work both independently and in cross-functional teams to achieve established goals. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Compensation Data
The pay range for this position is $90K – $110K USD. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications, and location
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 86% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2021.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer – all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, veteran or disability status.
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 [email protected]. 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.