Director - Analytical Engineering

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.

Job Summary

Are you passionate about data architecture and analytics solutions?

Do you thrive in leading high-performing teams while staying hands-on with cutting-edge technologies?

If so, join Charles River's global Data & Analytics organisation as our next Director of Analytics Engineering.

We are seeking a strategic yet technical leader to manage a team of Data Analysts and Analytics Engineers, driving enterprise analytics initiatives that deliver actionable insights across global business functions.

This role combines leadership, solution design, and stakeholder engagement to enable scalable reporting and data-driven decision-making.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead & Mentor: Manage and develop a team of 4 - 7 Data Analysts and Analytics Engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Strategic Planning: Partner with business and IT leadership to define the analytics strategy and roadmap, aligning with enterprise data initiatives.
• Hands-On Delivery: Contribute to solution design and development, including data modeling, Power BI/Fabric reporting, and integration with enterprise data platforms.
• End-to-End Execution: Drive projects from requirements gathering and process design through to production deployment in a cloud environment.
• Business Partnership: Translate complex business challenges into analytical solutions, present insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders, and champion data-driven decision-making.
• Technical Product Ownership: Act as product owner within Agile teams, ensuring delivery of high-quality, scalable analytics solutions.
• Standards & Best Practices: Define UX and data visualisation standards, optimise processes, and promote adoption of modern tools and technologies.
• Global Collaboration: Manage initiatives across multiple time zones, primarily U.S.-based teams, in a matrix environment.

This is offered as a fully remote role.

Qualifications:

• Education: B.Sc. / M.Sc. in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field; Master's preferred.
• Leadership Experience: Proven track record of building and leading high-performing technical teams in a data or analytics organisation.

Technical Expertise:

• Advanced Power BI and Microsoft Fabric experience, including SSAS design and expert DAX skills.
• Strong knowledge of Azure cloud services and data integration architectures.
• Hands-on experience with data visualisation, report development, and enterprise data modelling.
• Business Acumen: Ability to analyse complex business challenges and translate them into actionable solutions.

Methodologies:

• Skilled in Agile practices and managing multiple concurrent initiatives under tight deadlines.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Python and data science concepts.
• Deep understanding of data warehousing and BI analytics.
• Familiarity with SAP or similar ERP systems.

What We Offer:

Charles River offers a competitive benefits package, including a generous company pension scheme, private healthcare, dental coverage, performance bonuses, and access to employee discount programs - plus much more!

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 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.

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