Senior Event Specialist - (REMOTE)

Charles River Laboratories; Wilmington (MA); Remote; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Charles River Laboratories is seeking a Senior Events Specialist to manage and optimize our global events program. This remote-based role collaborates with corporate and regional teams to deliver revenue-focused, brand-aligned events and oversee the regional tradeshow calendar.

The role requires coordinating with vendors and stakeholders, ensuring compliant lead capture, and driving improvements in lead quality and ROI. Regular domestic and occasional international travel are expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related discipline.
• 4–6 years of experience managing large tradeshows.
• Proficiency in English; additional languages are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute tradeshow programs and hosted events globally.
• Act as liaison between internal stakeholders, vendors and attendees to drive revenue and market presence.
• Own regional tradeshow calendar and preshow planning.
• Track ROI metrics and drive continuous improvement.
• Oversee event logistics including contracts, shipping, and onsite coordination.

Skills

Proficiency in English

Multilingual advantage

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CRM systems

Smartsheet

Cvent

Job description

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

Charles River is seeking a Senior Events Specialist to support our portfolio globally. This remote-based role will work closely with both the corporate and regional commercial teams to deliver impactful, revenue-focused, and brand-aligned events. The Senior Events Specialist will own the regional tradeshow calendar, lead preshow planning to establish clear objectives, ensure flawless onsite execution, and evaluate performance to maximize return on investment.

This position will work remote from home office, located in the UK, Ireland or North America.

Job Description

• Research, plan, and execute a program of tradeshows, and hosted events across the Charles River portfolio.
• Serve as the primary liaison between internal stakeholders, external vendors, and event attendees to ensure successful delivery, whilst supporting revenue growth, and strengthening market presence.
• Act as the subject matter expert and sole point of contact for BU Specific tradeshows and events.
• Drive improvements in event lead quality and velocity, ensuring compliance with corporate standards for lead capture, processing, and best practices.
• Partner with regional marketing and CRL creative to ensure all messaging and design are on-brand, strategically aligned, and tailored to the target audience.
• Track, analyse, and report ROI metrics for each event; provide recommendations for continuous improvement to maximize impact and revenue outcomes.
• Oversee all aspects of event planning and logistics, including vendor contracts, purchasing, shipping, and onsite coordination.
• Collaborate with other CRL departments on projects that generate revenue and strengthen client relationships.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree (B.A. /B.S.) or equivalent or related discipline.
• Experience: Four to six years related experience and/or training, including experience managing large tradeshows.
• Certification/Licensure: None.
• Other: Proficiency in English is essential; multiple languages are advantageous.
• Knowledge of CRM systems, Smartsheet and Cvent or similar software/tools preferred.
• This position requires regular domestic and occasional international travel.

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 supported the development of 80% of the drugs approved by the FDA in the last five years.

At Charles River Laboratories, we recognize and recruit all talent. We are a company committed to fostering a sense of belonging and work daily in this direction.