Job Description

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

We are currently seeking an Associate Director within the department of Immunology, Bioanalysis & Biomarkers located at our site at Clearwater House (CWH) in Riccarton, Edinburgh.

The Immunology, Bioanalysis & Biomarker department consists of 4 teams (Biomarkers, Immunochemistry, Immunology and Molecular Biology) and totals approximately 80 researchers. Our goal is to provide excellent support to our clients as they endeavour to bring novel treatments covering a wide range of therapeutic areas to patients. This multi functional department ensures that clients are provided with accurate and reliable data to satisfy the regulatory expectations associated with bringing these new treatments to the market.

In this challenging leadership role, the successful applicant will take responsibility for a fast-growing Biomarker team (20 headcounts). This team supports GLP and non-GLP toxicology studies and clinical studies by 1) developing new methodology, 2) method validation and 3) utilizing these methods to analyze a wide range of biomarkers in samples.

We are looking for candidate with a deep understanding in Biomarker assay development and is fully up to date with current biomarker guidance papers (e.g., C-Path). In addition, proven experience of successfully building and/or maintaining a GLP & GCP compliant framework. Importantly, excellent people skills, someone who can engage and motivate a team and not afraid to step up in case of challenges and setbacks.

This role also includes responsibility for the CWH support team (8 headcounts), which is a team supporting our scientific teams by performing tasks like sample management, equipment maintenance, ordering of reagents and several other tasks crucial for our operations.

Applicants should have:

- A degree in a relevant subject (e.g., Biomedical Sciences)
- Practical and scientific understanding of Biomarker assays/studies
- Great understanding of drug development and design of preclinical/clinical studies
- Proven leadership experience
- Excellent team spirit and people skills
- Excellent communication/business skills

Closing date for this role is Thursday, 28 September 2023.

About Safety Assessment
Charles River is committed to helping our partners expedite their preclinical drug development with exceptional safety assessment services, state-of-the-art facilities and expert regulatory guidance. From individual specialty toxicology and IND enabling studies to tailored packages and total laboratory support, our deeply experienced team can design and execute programs that anticipate challenges and avoid roadblocks for a smooth, efficient journey to market. Each year approximately 300 investigational new drug (IND) programs are conducted in our Safety Assessment facilities.

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.

At Charles River Laboratories, we recognize and recruit all talent. We are a company committed to the principle of diversity and inclusion and work daily in this direction.

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

Charles River Laboratories