Site Optimization Lead

Job title:

Site Optimization Lead

Company:

Charles River Laboratories

Job description

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.The Site Optimization Lead is a change agent that drives business process improvements to support operational excellence, growth and other key strategic initiatives. In this role you need to identify improvement opportunities, maintain key site metrics and ensure accomplishment and coordination of all site projects. In order to do so the Site Optimization Lead provides leadership, communication, support & assistance, training and coaching.Your tasks:

• Serve as the site leader and Business Partner for the Senior Management Team for Business Process Improvement;
• Monitor, track and report progress on site strategic goals, key performance indicators, and projects monthly with the Senior Management Team;
• Be the point of contact for coordination and project management for all global and site initiatives;
• Analyse processes and data and make recommendations for improvement;
• Prioritize site projects aligned with site strategic goals by identifying areas of opportunities which improves customer experience, increase quality and/or enhance financial results;
• Lead complex process improvement initiatives involving multiple departments and/or sites;
• Ensuring best practices are shared and implemented across Charles River sites;
• Ensuring projects are delivered on time and budget, reporting on progress and ensuring benefits are measured;
• Support management projects and build relationships to understand business objectives and priorities;
• Applies knowledge and skills in innovative ways to provide solutions to challenges;
• Establish, motivate and lead a team in the identification, design and delivery of process improvement initiatives;
• Provide training to staff in Business Process Improvement methodologies (Lean Six Sigma) and be a coach and mentor.
• Stay tuned on innovation, tools, processes for his/her activity;

Profile:

• Bachelor or Master degree, ideally a background in project and change management or a scientific-related discipline;
• Experience in process improvement and/or quality management;
• Fluent in Hungarian and English;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Able to influence resources/staff without direct reporting relationships;
• Experience with data tools such as Smartsheet, Excel and PowerBI
• Experience in cross functional management;
• Be proactive, creative and open to new ideas;
• Able to multi-task;
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving skills;
• Be flexible and like team work;Be proactive, creative and open to new ideas;
• Green Belt certification or willingness to obtain one within the year

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 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 worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.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.

Expected salary

Location

Veszprém

Job date

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 23:29:31 GMT

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