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.
Responsible for creation and maintenance of the Strategic Resource (NHP) Quarantine Inventory forecasting and distribution schedule. Manages the declining balance inventory for all NHPs farms in line with contracted payment profiles. Ensures all Purchase Orders relating to transportation and logistics are created and monitors Accounts Payable to ensure timely payment. Ensures accurate and timely communication with the Strategic Resources Logistics team.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Support the annual NHP Quarantine (NHPQ) inventory and distribution forecast planning.
• Maintain the inventory plan and track distribution and declining balance of annual supply commitments from global suppliers.
• Prepare routine reports related to inventory balances for senior leadership.
• Creates and manages requisitions for Purchase Orders (P.O.) from global suppliers in accordance with contracts.
• Ensures new suppliers are added to vendor system occurs in a timely manner.
• Collaborates with the distribution team to monitor supply of NHPs for global Safety Assessment (“SA”) sites, ensuring that demand and capacity spreadsheets are aligned and reflect accurate data.
• Work closely with Senior Manager, Global NHP Distribution.
• Create POs and act as primary point of contact for suppliers related to supplier payments.
• Primary point of contact for Inventory queries relating to supplier P.O.’s.
• Develops tools and analytics to understand and quantify imports and reconcile with demand and capacity constraints.
• Recommends and develops process improvements.
• Maintains collaborative and productive working relationships with Procurement, Finance, and Inventory COE.
• Maintain NHP contract database and updates pricing models as required.
• Manages maturation inventory at global supplier sites including descending balances and per diem payments.
• Coordinates with Client Managers to create monthly per diem invoices for client maturation colonies.
• Prepares routine client-facing reports on inventory balances.
• Manages inventory flow into European quarantines and sites.
• Perform all other related duties as assigned.
Salary for this position is competitive and dependent upon skills and experience.
This is a remote working role.
Education: Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, or related discipline.
Experience: Established track record of related experience and/or training, with demonstrable skill set in financial planning, analysis, and data modeling. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above.
Other: Proficiency in SAP or related financial systems. Excellent Excel skills required and proficiency with other MS tools. Smartsheet and data extraction and organisation are necessary to be successful with an aptitude to leverage power query, power pivot, and power BI. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are necessary to support a collaborative team in a remote workforce environment. Ability to adapt to changing priorities to support the business. Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, and eagerness to learn. Strong analytical, attention to detail and organizational skills required.
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 80% of the drugs approved by the FDA in the last 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.
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