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
Charles River’s marketing department is looking for a highly creative Senior Multimedia Designer. This position would be responsible for supporting the creative strategy and execution of digital and offline marketing materials that align with Charles River’s strategic marketing and communications goals. The ideal candidate will possess a well-rounded design skillset with experience developing assets for a range of visual mediums including websites/digital properties, video, social media, email, print, presentations and other digital and traditional content formats and channels. Leading with a digital-first mindset, the senior multimedia designer will coordinate and implement design projects from concept to delivery, ensuring business objectives are creatively met, top quality work is delivered, and visual brand standards are adhered to.
Role and Responsibilities:
• Identify and recommend creative ideas that deliver on strategic goals.
• Conceptualize, develop and produce design solutions that meet business goals across a range of visual mediums and tactics, including but not limited to: websites, social media, email, video, static and rich banner ads, data visualization/infographics, digital assessment tools, and traditional/print channels and tactics.
• Collaborate with internal Design Team on workflow, assignments, best practices.
• Collaborate with internal Marketing, Content and Digital teams to understand marketing goals, requirements and audience needs/behaviors and translate into effective design solutions.
• Own the design process for assigned projects from concept to final execution, ensuring quality and managing to deadlines.
• Create and deliver thoughtful design presentations that meet strategic marketing objectives.
• Navigate and respond to creative feedback throughout the review process while maintaining creative standards and best practices.
• Assist in management of brand standards including logos, color palettes, typography, brand elements, and guidelines for how the visual brand should be used.
• Act as a steward of the visual brand and reinforce best practices related to the Charles River brand.
• Ensure consistency of brand and creative across digital and offline touch points.
• Stay current on the latest visual design, social and digital trends and consumer behavior/preferences to influence creative strategy and recommendations.
• In collaboration with internal teams, leverage data and analytics to optimize design approaches based on response. conversion rates and qualitative research.
• Other duties as required.
Job Qualifications
• 6+ year’s design experience preferably in an agency or in-house environment.
• Experience designing for global brands.
• Advanced level knowledge in Adobe CC.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Must be able to communicate clearly and quickly to a wide audience of stakeholders and situations.
• Must be able to problem-solve and think of creative solutions for customer pain points to better suit the customer’s needs.
• Ability to successfully multitask and prioritize among running projects.
• Capacity to work independently, self-manage, and as part of a team.
• Bachelor’s degree in graphic arts, design, communications, or related field
Compensation Data
The pay range for this position is $70K – $85K. 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.