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.
Charles River employees are innovative thinkers, who are dedicated to continuous learning and improvement. We will empower you with the resources you need to grow and develop in your career.
As a Charles River employee, you will be part of an industry-leading, customer-focused company at the forefront of drug development. Your skills will play a key role in bringing life-saving therapies to market faster through simpler, quicker, and more digitalized processes. Whether you are in lab operations, finance, IT, sales, or another area, when you work at Charles River, you will be the difference every day for patients across the globe.
Job Summary
As a PhD Intern supporting People Analytics, you will deliver workforce insights through high-impact data storytelling for senior leaders. This is a project-based role focused on translating people data into executive-ready dashboards, visuals, and presentations that are clear, persuasive, and visually compelling—materials that help leaders make confident decisions.
What You’ll Do
- Learn our people data landscape and core workforce measures (e.g., headcount, hiring, retention, mobility, engagement) to frame meaningful insights.
- Design and build Power BI dashboards and visual narratives that highlight trends, drivers, and actionable takeaways.
- Create executive-level slide decks that inspire action—clean design, strong story arc, and visuals that make complex information intuitive.
- Partner with stakeholders to understand the business question, define success, and shape outputs into decision-ready recommendations.
- Support Employee Experience (EX) and broader workforce insights projects by identifying patterns and translating findings into compelling visuals and messages.
Deliverables You’ll Produce
- Executive-ready dashboards and visuals that clearly communicate workforce trends and implications.
- Polished, compelling presentations that elevate insights into recommendations leaders can act on.
Required
Job Qualifications
- Pursuing a PhD or other advanced degree in Analytics, Data Science, I/O Psychology, Statistics, HR, Organizational Behavior, or a related field.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to synthesize data into clear, leadership-relevant insights.
- Exceptional visualization and communication skills—able to present data in ways that are crisp, engaging, and executive-friendly.
- Familiarity with HR/People Analytics metrics and/or employee listening data (surveys, qualitative comments, sentiment or theme analysis).
- Comfortable working with data (quality checks, interpretation, drawing conclusions).
Preferred
- Power BI experience (visual design, measures, data modeling) and strong PowerPoint capabilities (executive storytelling and layout/design).
Deliverables You’ll Produce
- Executive-ready dashboards and visuals that clearly communicate workforce trends and implications.
- Polished, compelling presentations that elevate insights into recommendations leaders can act on.
The pay for this position is $23.00 per hour. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.
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 crrecruitment_US@crl.com. 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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