Project Coordinator - Maternity Cover

For 75years, 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.

Charles River are recruiting a talented, highly motivated fixed-term (maternity cover) Projector Coordinator in the Biologics Europe Project Coordination team, to have responsibility for ensuring accurate reporting of the financial revenue forecasting and recognition of scientific projects in the Biologics Business. This role is full-time for 1-year, remote role in either UK, Ireland or Germany. You will be working closely with Scientific Operations in Germany, Ireland and US.

• Working with our Enterprise Resource Planning System, SAP.
• Reviewing contracts and acceptable documentation to build financial costs and study designs in SAP.
• Ensuring sales orders and study schedules are created, updated accurately, and releasing invoicing milestones.
• Contribute to process improvement and integration as we grow as an internal Charles River Business.

• Highly organised and confident with attention to detail.
• Ability to complete jobs under pressure.
• Proactive approach to working with the ability to plan work in advance to prioritise workload depending on business schedules.
• Effective verbal and written communication.
• Excellent numeracy and literacy skills.
• A dynamic and flexible approach towards achieving departmental objectives.
• Enthusiasm to contribute to ideas for continuous improvement.
• Experience in Microsoft Excel is essential
• Knowledge or awareness gained from working in a scientific department with a variety of study designs and an understanding of good Laboratory Practice is desirable.
• Knowledge or experience with SAP would be an advantage.

• Comprehensive benefits package, including a generous pension contribution, private medical, and more!
• The opportunity to get industry standard training and experience.
• Global opportunities and strong career progression.
• Personal development and skills enrichment is one of our key focuses.
• Flexible working arrangements.

Closing date is:
Friday, 27 March 2026.

The biopharmaceutical industry is growing at an unprecedented pace which is simultaneously changing current testing methodologies. To keep up with the demand, we offer a flexible testing platform which can be deployed on-site at the client site to their exact needs. Our biologics testing  a box…at the client site. Right Source℠ is completely managed and operated using our quality management system, SOP’s, methods, and best practices.

It’s as if you shipped your samples to an outsourced lab but walked down the hall instead.

Our Biologics Testing Solutions offers a variety of services such as contamination and impurity testing, protein characterization, bioassays, viral clearance studies and stability and lot release programs, we support clients throughout the biologic development cycle, from the establishment and characterization of cell banks through preclinical and clinical studies to marketed products. Whether clients need stand-alone services, a unique package of testing, or insourced support, our Biologics group can create a custom solution to suit their needs.

With more than 50 years of experience and proven regulatory expertise, the Charles River Biologics group can address challenging projects for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies worldwide. Each year more than 20,000 biologic testing reports are sent each and over 200 licenses products are supported by our biologics testing solutions team.

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…