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
This Senior Manager role will carry out our Business Continuity Program to provide data driven insights to stakeholders, foster collaborative relationships with both internal stakeholders and external vendors, drive forward thinking initiatives to create an upstanding security program, and serve as a subject matter expert in various areas of security and crisis management. Responsible for helping to design, develop, execute and maintain business impact assessments, business continuity plans, and disaster recovery plans for operational resilience across the enterprise. The purpose of this role is to ensure critical business processes are properly identified across the global organization and plans are created to ensure these processes remain available during a disruption.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop plans, policies, and implement strategies to mitigate the impact of potential adverse conditions such as natural disasters (including the effects of climate change), acts of terror/war, cyberattacks, epidemics/pandemics, Animal Rights Activism and Protests, etc.
- Partner with local Crisis Management & Incident Management and Facilities teams to ensure critical processes maintain continuity during disruptions.
- Work with a wide range of business teams to conduct business impact assessments, identify critical services, define recovery objectives, and map critical dependencies.
- Work with business teams to develop strategies and proposals for mitigating business continuity risks.
- Monitor and determine impact on recovery strategies and determine need for convening and or activation of response teams during a business disruption based on severity levels or other escalation triggers.
- Facilitate recovery efforts during a disaster
- Act as crisis management and business continuity point of contact for business unit peers/ stakeholders across various lines of business.
- This individual will serve as a point of contact for Charles River Labs internal and external audits.
- Facilitate business impact analysis and risk assessments to determine potential effects of an interruption to operations
- Ensure proper development of business continuity plans, procedures and associated roles needed to recover critical business functions
- Lead validation, maintenance and testing of plans through training and exercises with increasing degrees of complexity
- Write after action reports for incidents and exercises; Track open action items to completion
- Implement effective tracking of program deliverables based on established KPIs
- Perform all other related duties as assigned.
Job Qualifications
- Education: Minimum of Bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) or equivalent in a science discipline, criminal justice, law enforcement or related field.
- Experience: Minimum of 7 + years of experience leading or responsible for Crisis Management and/or Operation Resilience programs. Proven ability to work in a global environment with various levels of maturity, to collaborate and influence stakeholders. Employees must communicate at executive level, both written and orally, through superior communication skills and strong problem-solving skills.
- Experience managing behaviors of concern and workplace violence cases. Knowledge of current and latest trends in security and crisis management programs and technologies. Knowledge of corporate security operations, including interdependencies with key partners such as risk management, legal, human resources, information technology, and facilities management
- Significant Government, Law Enforcement, Emergency Services contacts are required.
- Preferred Experience: Experience with Response Operations to include BCP and COOP concepts. Understanding of Project Management methodologies preferred. Experience in the biotech/biopharmaceutical industry. DRI Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP). DRI Certified Risk Management Professional (CRMP)
- An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above.
- Certification/Licensure: Valid driver’s license. Formal Business Continuity training & certification(s) are preferred.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The duties of this role are generally conducted in an office environment. As is typical of an office-based role, employees must be able, with or without an accommodation to: use a computer; engage in communications via phone, video, and electronic messaging; engage in problem solving and non-linear thought, analysis, and dialogue; collaborate with others; maintain general availability during standard business hours.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
General office working conditions, the noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
25% of this role will include travel within the US and International
Compensation Data
The pay range for this position is $105,000 to $145,000. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, and location.
Competencies
Lead – We lead when we advocate our purpose and model our values, when we deliver innovation, when we embrace change, and when we appreciate and celebrate the great work of others.
Care – We show we care when we respect each other, our animals and the communities where we work and live, when we create a positive healthy workplace, when we are mindful of our compliance standards, and when we choose to do the right thing.
Collaborate -We collaborate when we partner with each other and promote teamwork, when we communicate clearly and effectively across the hall or around the globe, and when we welcome all forms of diversity and encourage inclusiveness.
Own – We act like owners when we hold ourselves accountable for our actions, when we respond to internal and external client needs with speed and accuracy, when we set and achieve meaningful goals, and when we strive towards continuous improvement.
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.