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 Overview
BASIC SUMMARY:
| The Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) serves as the senior executive responsible for designing, implementing, and continuously enhancing Charles River Laboratories’ global ethics and compliance program. The CCO provides strategic leadership and oversight of compliance risks across Charles River’s global operations, including anti-bribery and anti-corruption, healthcare compliance, research integrity, trade compliance, competition law, data privacy, government contracting, third-party risk management, investigations, and regulatory compliance. The role serves as a trusted advisor to executive management and the Board regarding compliance, ethics, and enterprise risk matters.
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ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
| Essential Duty | Estimated Time Allocation | Summary of Responsibilities |
| Enterprise Ethics & Compliance Program Leadership | 25% | Set compliance strategy, oversee the global ethics and compliance framework, maintain policies and governance processes, and promote a culture of integrity and accountability across the enterprise. |
| Compliance Risk Management, Controls & Monitoring | 20% | Lead enterprise compliance risk assessments, identify emerging risks, develop mitigation plans, and oversee risk-based controls, testing, monitoring, and remediation activities. |
| Regulatory Compliance, Investigations & Response | 20% | Oversee compliance with global regulatory obligations, direct ethics reporting and investigations processes, and coordinate response to regulatory inquiries, audits, inspections, and significant compliance matters. |
| Third-Party, Transactional & International Compliance | 10% | Lead third-party compliance programs, support due diligence and integration for transactions and partnerships, and address compliance risks in complex international markets. |
| Training, Communications & Culture | 10% | Develop enterprise-wide and targeted compliance training, communications, certifications, and executive education to reinforce ethical decision-making and reporting expectations. |
| Board, Executive & Cross-Functional Engagement | 10% | Advise executive leadership and the Board on compliance program effectiveness, key risks, investigations, regulatory trends, metrics, dashboards, and remediation progress. |
| Global Compliance Team Leadership & Operations | 5% | Build and develop the global compliance team, strengthen accountability and succession planning, and drive continuous improvement, efficiency, and innovation in compliance operations. |
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Enterprise Ethics & Compliance Leadership, including enterprise program design, governance, culture-building, and oversight of the Company’s global compliance framework.
- Lead and continuously improve Charles River’s global ethics and compliance program to ensure it remains risk-based, effective, scalable, and aligned with evolving business operations.
- Establish compliance strategy, priorities, and annual objectives aligned with the Company’s business goals, regulatory obligations, geographic footprint, and enterprise risk profile.
- Promote a culture of integrity, accountability, transparency, and speak-up behavior throughout the organization, with clear expectations for ethical decision-making and responsible escalation.
- Develop and maintain compliance policies, standards, procedures, and governance frameworks that support consistent execution across global operations and business functions.
- Oversee the Company’s Code of Business Conduct and Ethics program, including periodic updates, training, certification, communications, and related governance processes.
- Compliance Risk Management, including risk assessment, monitoring, mitigation planning, and coordination with enterprise assurance functions.
- Conduct enterprise-wide compliance risk assessments and develop mitigation strategies that are prioritized based on likelihood, impact, regulatory exposure, and business relevance.
- Identify emerging legal, regulatory, operational, and reputational risks across markets and business lines, and translate those risks into practical compliance priorities and controls.
- Implement risk-based compliance controls, monitoring programs, testing activities, and remediation plans to support effective prevention, detection, and response.
- Partner with Internal Audit and Enterprise Risk Management to ensure coordinated oversight, clear accountability, and appropriate reporting of compliance risk trends and remediation progress.
- Partner with Legal and other relevant stakeholders and assume a leadership role in guiding the Company through regulatory inquiries, investigations, audits, and inspections.
- Support due diligence and integration activities associated with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and business transformations.
Regulatory & Legal Compliance
- Oversee compliance with global laws and regulations impacting Charles River’s operations, including healthcare, anti-bribery, antitrust, trade controls, sanctions, government contracting, environmental, privacy, and research-related requirements.
- Monitor regulatory developments and enforcement trends, and coordinate readiness and response for regulatory inspections, audits, and investigations.
Investigations & Helpline Oversight
- Direct the Company’s ethics reporting, whistleblower, and investigations programs, including intake, investigation, remediation, documentation, and corrective action processes.
- Ensure appropriate escalation and reporting of significant matters to executive leadership and the Board.
Third-Party Compliance & Due Diligence
- Lead third-party compliance programs for distributors, agents, consultants, suppliers, contract research partners, and other business relationships, including risk-based diligence, contracting, monitoring, and certifications.
- Oversee compliance reviews for acquisitions, investments, and strategic partnerships.
Job Description (cont.)
Training & Communications
- Develop enterprise-wide compliance training and targeted communications that strengthen ethical decision-making, awareness, and reporting obligations.
- Deliver executive and Board-level compliance education.
Privacy & Data Governance
- Partner with Privacy, Information Security, and IT to support compliance with privacy, data protection, data handling, and records management requirements.
- Support regulatory readiness and response for privacy and cybersecurity matters.
Board & Executive Engagement
- Brief the Audit Committee and executive leadership on program effectiveness, significant investigations, regulatory developments, key risks, trends, and remediation efforts.
- Develop compliance metrics, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms to support transparent oversight.
Team Leadership
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing global compliance organization with clear accountability, succession planning, and talent development.
- Drive continuous improvement, operational efficiency, and innovation across compliance operations.
Minimum Qualifications
- At least 15 years of progressive experience in compliance, legal, risk management, ethics, governance, or related enterprise control functions. Undergraduate degree required, and advanced degrees and/or certifications in relevant disciplines preferred.
- Prior experience serving as Chief Compliance Officer or Deputy Chief Compliance Officer for a multinational company.
- Experience managing compliance programs in China and other complex and high-risk international markets.
- Experience in life sciences, pharmaceutical services, biotechnology, healthcare, CRO/CDMO, research services, manufacturing, or another regulated global business.
- Proven ability to lead and/or partner with Legal to support and manage the successful resolution of regulatory inquiries, investigations, audits, and inspections, and to successfully partner with the legal team to manage and support related litigation.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a matrixed, global organization and influence stakeholders across functions, geographies, and levels of seniority.
- Demonstrated experience advising executive leadership and the Board of Directors on global compliance program effectiveness, investigations, regulatory risk, and ethics matters.
- Experienced in managing and developing high performing teams across regions.
Professional Attributes:
- Trusted ethics and compliance advisor with exceptional judgment, independence, integrity, discretion, and executive presence.
- Pragmatic, proactive, and solutions-oriented leader who translates complex compliance obligations into clear, risk-based guidance for the business.
- Strong enterprise risk acumen and ability to balance regulatory expectations, ethical standards, business objectives, operational realities, and reputational considerations.
- Collaborative, credible, and low-ego partner who builds trust across Legal, Compliance, HR, Internal Audit, Finance, Quality, Operations, and business teams.
- Clear and concise communicator who can distill compliance risks, investigation findings, and program effectiveness for executive leadership and the Board.
- Comfortable operating independently in a fast-paced, global, highly regulated environment with ambiguity, competing priorities, and sensitive matters.
- Committed to fostering a culture of integrity, accountability, transparency, and ethical decision-making consistent with Charles River’s mission, values, and reputation.
Workplace Requirements:
- Ability to work remotely.
- Domestic and international travel required 20% of the time.
Compensation Data
The hiring range for this position in the United States is $320,000/yr – $350,000/yr. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications, location and any collective agreements, if applicable.
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 worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.
We’re committed to providing benefits that elevate your quality of life. Based on your position these may include: bonus/incentives based on performance, 401K, paid time off, stock purchase program, Health and wellness coverage, employee and family wellbeing support programs, and work life balance flexibility.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Charles River is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, family status, pregnancy, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
It is unlawful in some states (including Massachusetts) to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
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.
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UX/UI设计师
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UX/UI 高级设计师
定义并推动 UX/UI 策略和交互设计（从头开始并扩大规模），以解决业务和用户问题。
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副总监
与高级 UX/IX 设计师和开发人员合作评估问题并制定解决方案。通过建立编码标准化和自动化流程来执行计划。
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数字数据推动总监
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UX/UI 设计高级总监
指导、培训和引导设计团队制定与研究见解、执行、持续集成和自动化部署相关的设计策略。
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动物护理技术员 I-IV
通过提供食物、水和清洁的环境来维持动物的健康。
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动物护理技术员 I-IV
提供专业护理以维护和监控我们的动物的健康和物理环境。
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兽医技术员
帮助监控、记录和分类所有实验动物健康病例。
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团队领导 / 主管
监督、培训、动员、授权和发展一支高效的团队。
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研究助理
根据学习计划指南协调和计划活动。
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实习生一级
根据设施和部门需求支持流程/程序改进。了解我们的公司环境，以促进跨职能部门的协作。
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实习生二级
完成综合部门项目，将一级实习生的指导作为专业发展的一部分。
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生物制造技术员 I-III
监督细胞产品的生产、配方和储存，同时确保符合 GMP、GDP 和无菌指南。
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生物制造主管/专家
保持对专用设备的深入了解，以便作为所需设备的主题专家来解决问题。
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临床兽医 I-III
负责提供专业的兽医服务并帮助管理动物群医疗保健的各个阶段。
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高级临床兽医
利用实验动物医学知识来优化动物研究方案的科学目标。
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首席兽医 / 副主任
进行兽医咨询，提出治疗建议，与研究主任沟通，并跟踪案件直至解决。
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实验动物医学主任
对涉及现场实验动物的所有动物护理和使用功能提供技术和专业监督。
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技术员 I-III
遵守动物处理、饲养和血液/尿液收集方面的标准操作程序和协议。
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技术员 IV-V
处理高级技术员的职责，包括麻醉、领导和专门样本收集。
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项目负责人（科学）
担任实验室的科学专家，负责工作人员进行的研究。
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团队领导者
监督团队活动并在成为团队主管的道路上获得领导技能。
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团队主管（团队领导者）
负责整体员工监督、员工发展和团队成功。
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财务分析师
帮助分析财务数据，提取/定义相关信息并解释数据。
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二级财务分析师
负责项目的分析、预测、预算、会计管理和报告。
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高级财务分析师
处理每周和每月的预测和年度预算编制。准备业务审查的财务和关键指标。
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财务经理
与业务合作，提高关键决策领域的标准。呈现动态的行业、竞争对手和经济环境。
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运营财务总监
支持所有业务维度，与设施各团队合作指导每周/每月的预测和年度预算准备。
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生物制造技术员 I
支持新型细胞产品的生产、配方和储存（包括 cGMP、GDP 和无菌处理）。
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生物制造技术员 II
执行新型细胞产品的生产、配方和储存方面的专门活动（包括 cGMP、GDP 和无菌处理）。
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生物制造技术员 III
在与客户互动的同时，帮助推进新型细胞产品（包括 cGMP、GDP 和无菌处理）的生产、配方和储存。
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生物制造主管 / 专家
保持对专用设备的深入了解，以便作为所需设备的主题专家来解决问题。
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生物制造主管
监督生物制造人员，确保遵守 cGMP、CRL 质量体系和生物制造流程文件。
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生物制造经理
领导新型细胞产品的启动和 cGMP 生产中的生物制造活动。安排和管理员工，确保安全、合规的工作环境。
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客户经理
通过多设施协调确保高质量的客户服务。及时、准确、全面地回应客户需求。
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业务发展总监
通过定位和拜访客户来建立牢固的关系和客户忠诚度，实现盈利性销售增长。
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高级业务发展总监
规划并执行基于区域的现场销售策略。通过有针对性的长期和短期客户计划推动增长。
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区域销售经理
管理北美安全评估销售区域的销售团队，以实现销售和利润目标。
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总监
与设施领导层合作，实现绩效目标、培养员工并实施继任计划。
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高级总监 / 总经理
领导多功能团队，确保综合运营。与高层领导合作制定计划、目标和政策。
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执行董事
领导一个全球性的、多学科的团队。制定短期和长期战略计划，以最大限度地实现增长和盈利能力。
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公司副总裁
为领导层和财务团队提供领导力、指导和建议。负责财务规划、指导和控制。
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