Human Resources Business Representative

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 Summary**:
As a **Human Resources Representative** for our Human Resources team at the **Laval** location, you will be to establishing close partnerships with internal clients on human resources management activities. You will also be leading communication and engagement activities and strategies for the site.

In this role, **primary responsibilitie**s include:

- Build relationship with people leaders to understand the business context of their department. Assess, analyze, and advise internal clients as to best practices and solutions in alignment with organizational goals and priorities;
- Participate in the HR cycle activities with internal clients such as objectives setting, performance review, compensation planning, succession planning, etc;
- Coordinate the planning of all engagement site’s initiatives such as social committee, employee group resources, local involvement including budget management;
- Coordinate key messages, prepare communications and visual needed in collaboration with the communication regional team;
- Organize meeting between senior leadership and employees from different department to discuss engagement survey results and idea of actions to improve their work environment;
- Advise on the engagement survey best practices to increase participation rate, achievable action plan and track progress.

**Key Elements**:
We are looking for the following minimum** qualifications** for this role:

- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or Industrial Relations management;
- 1-2 years of relevant experience as an HR generalist or in a similar role;
- Fluently bilingual, oral and written (French and English);
- Ability to inspire trust and confidence through strong interpersonal skills and effective collaboration.

**Role Specific Information**:

- ** Location**: Laval: 445 Boul. Armand-Frappier, Laval, QC, H7V 4B3
- **Transportation**: Laval: Free parking. Near the Montmorency Subway. Electric vehicle charging station
- **Schedule**: Monday - Friday, Hybrid (Minimum 3 days on site)
- Permanent position as of the hiring, full-time 37.5hrs per week.

**Why Charles River ?**
- Competitive benefits as of the hiring. We pay up to 85% of premiums (health & dental coverage);
- Paid development training;
- Employee and family assistance program;
- Excellent welcome program for new employees as well as in-house advancement and career development opportunities;
- Access to a doctor and various health professionals (telemedicine);
- 3 weeks’ Vacation & 5 Personal day policy;
- Many social activities

If you are interested in contributing to the well-being of our communities, not only across the country but around the world, please join us. **This is Your Moment.**

**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.

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 pos