Req ID #: 234579

- Kuopio, Ita-Suomen Laani, FI
- Full time

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 Overview : In this role, you are shaping people related decisions and driving HR initiatives that support business performance and long term growth.

You are a trusted advisor to managers with deep Finnish HR and labor law expertise, strong HRBP experience, and a hands-on, process-minded approach.

Key expertise : Partnering with the business: trusted advisor to managers and a member of the site management team. Combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution to design and deliver people solutions, using data and insight to anticipate and address people-related risks and challenges.

In-depth, hands-on knowledge of Finnish employment and labor law, including collective agreements, co-operation and continuous dialogue requirements with employee representatives, working time rules, statutory benefits, holiday accrual/pay and core payroll processes.





Overseeing the local payroll process by ensuring compliance with collective agreements and labor laws.

Together with the Nordic HR team work to improve HR operational processes for Finland and implement global HR processes such as talent and performance management, compensation and talent acquisition in compliance with Finnish legislation.

Boosting organisational excellence by coaching people leaders.

Confidence to influence and collaborate with leaders, managers, employees, and stakeholders.

Collaborate with external stakeholders such as occupational healthcare, pension providers, and insurance companies.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to interpret data, identify patterns, provide analysis and turn insights into concrete improvement actions.

Comfortable making decisions in ambiguous, fast-changing environments, balancing legal, business, and people considerations.

Excellent communication skills in Finnish and English, written and verbal.

Positive outlook and forward-thinking mindset.

Ability to build trust, enhance transparency and create warm, inclusive and welcoming work environment.

Qualifications & Experience : Relevant Degree (e.g. BBA) and min. 4 years of experience as HR Generalist, Specialist or Business Partner

- Profound knowledge of local and relevant employment legislation
- Effective leadership, coaching and counselling skills
- Excellent problem solving, judgment and decision-making skills




- Strong verbal and written communication skills and very good interpersonal and influencing skills
- Strong attention to detail and high degree of discretion and confidentiality
- Ability to work in a matrix environment and establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, managers and stakeholders

This role is permanent and full-time (40 hours/week). In this position, you will report to Country HRBP. Your workstation is located in Kuopio and we work in a hybrid model with adaptable working hours. As employee benefits, we offer you e.g. extensive occupational health care, ePassi Flex and leisure-time accident insurance. The salary range for the position is 4500-5500€ .

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 portfol

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