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Birmingham, England, UK

**Regulation Change Manager** **Salary:** £53,247 \- £62,644 **Location:** Birmingham – Hybrid – a minimum of two days in the Birmingham office – remaining days could be from home; there could also be a requirement to travel to London from time to time **Hours:** Full\-time **Contract:** Permanent **About us:** Our primary purpose is to protect patient safety and maintain public confidence in dental services. To achieve this, we register qualified dental professionals, set standards for the dental team, investigate complaints about dental professionals' fitness to practise, and work to ensure the quality of dental education. **About the role:** Working closely with the Executive Director, Regulation and senior leaders, the Regulation Change Manager will lead the delivery and embedding of operational change to improve performance, outcomes, patient safety, and service effectiveness. The role will manage major improvement initiatives, focusing on stakeholder engagement, change adoption, leadership alignment, and building continuous improvement capability. It will support strategy development and ensure effective delivery, helping services remain efficient, proportionate, compliant, and outcome\-focused. This includes driving operational redesign, workforce adoption, and sustainable behavioural change. The postholder will work across teams, influence senior stakeholders, and promote a culture of accountability, improvement, innovation, and learning. Reporting to an Executive Director, the role operates at a senior level and is accountable for delivering significant service improvements across the Directorate. **Key Responsibilities** \- Deliver major change and improvement programmes, ensuring readiness, sustainability, and continuous improvement \- Drive adoption of new ways of working, supporting managers and building engagement and accountability \- Lead operational improvements to enhance quality, efficiency, and patient safety, resolving performance issues \- Translate strategy into delivery and provide clear reporting, assurance, and recommendations to leadership \- Manage risks, influence stakeholders, and support decision\-making \- Ensure compliance, governance, and oversight, monitoring delivery against objectives **Person specification:** **Essential** \- Strong experience leading people\-focused organisational change and embedding new ways of working \- Proven ability to influence senior and executive stakeholders and drive behaviour change \- Experience delivering stakeholder engagement across multiple channels \- Significant experience leading end\-to\-end operational improvement or service transformation \- Experience delivering change in regulated environments and translating strategy into delivery \- Strong governance, compliance awareness, and analytical/problem\-solving skills \- Experience producing executive\-level reporting and supporting senior decision\-making **Desirable** \- Experience in healthcare, professional, or public sector regulation \- Change management qualification (e.g. APMG, MSP, Prosci, PRINCE2 Change) \- Lean Six Sigma or similar qualification \- Experience supporting Executive Director or Board\-level decision\-making **Benefits:** The GDC is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that provides an environment that reflects our values and culture and allows employees to flourish. To support this, we offer a range of family\-friendly, inclusive employment policies, including flexible working arrangements from day one and employee networks that aid growth and development. Some of our benefits include: \- 27 days' holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) \- rising to 30 days (plus 8 bank holidays) after 2 years’ service \- Flexi\-time scheme \- Employer pension contributions up to 10% \- Buy/Sell annual leave \- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave from 1 year’s service. \- Life assurance, income protection plan and enhanced sick leave policy \- Staff discounts including eye care contributions and discounted gym membership We encourage and support the recruitment, retention, and career development of people from as wide a range as possible of ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds. **How to apply:** To apply, please click the ‘apply’ button. **As part of your application, you are required to submit a supporting statement. For this, we would like you to expand on your experience in the areas listed in the person specification above.** **Closing date:** 23:59 22 July 2026 **Please note that we reserve the right to bring this recruitment campaign to an end without notice, and we encourage all interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.** **Please no agencies unless instructed otherwise.**

Pharma & Biotech

Policy Manager (Innovation)

Tranent, Scotland, UK

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** **Are you an experienced Marketing Specialist with a passion for creating robust, effective campaigns?** **Are you looking for your next role and want to join a global market leader with exceptional opportunities?** Charles River Laboratories are recruiting for a **Marketing Specialist** to support the Discovery and Safety Assessment (DSA) marketing team in their strategic efforts by supporting initiatives for key segments including the pharma and biotech segments, and crops and chemicals when appropriate. The marketing specialist provides critical support to the wider team, expanding the team’s overall capacity and bandwidth to deliver lead generation programs to drive inbound leads plus nurturing campaigns to drive conversion, supporting closed\-won business. Working remotely (within the UK only), you'll focus on digital marketing to further support the movement of leads through the customer journey. In addition, this role supports the business development and account management teams in their work with current and prospective clients with sales enablement tools and marketing support for sales initiatives such as site events. **Job Description** **Core Tasks and Responsibilities:** * Collaborate with internal and external partners to deliver and optimize digital marketing programs combining web, SEO/SEM, email, social media, and paid advertising * Monitor performance, evaluate effectiveness, quantify ROI and optimize for future projects using Salesforce.com, Pardot, marketing dashboards and other data sources * Collaborate on the planning, organization and execution of marketing materials, brochures, and web content, in support of companywide services, in alignment with other marketing team members. * Collaborate and assist with event manager on virtual and in\-person event projects (tradeshows, webinars, seminars, workshops, conferences, etc.) * Understand our customer journey and experience, by analyzing outcomes of strategic initiatives and tactics to suggest improvements that support further lead conversions through our digital tools and applications. * Ensure a competent and professional image to the customer and an accurate portrayal of business strategies at all times. * Maintain a working knowledge of all company product lines with more in\-depth knowledge of business segment that is being supported. * Perform all other related duties as assigned. **Requirements And Profile** **Job Qualifications:** * Education:  Bachelor’s degree (B.A /B.S.) or equivalent in marketing, business or related discipline * Previous related experience in a similar marketing focused role is essential * Excellent written and verbal communication skills * Proven digital marketing experience is required, plus demonstrable skills in liasing and presenting to internal stakeholders on a regular basis. * Strong problem solving skills, along with the ability to make sound, logical decisions. * Attention to detail and strong time management skills a must. * Collaborative and adaptive to change **Candidates must have valid Right to Work in the UK as we are not able to provide sponsorship for this role.** **About Safety Assessment** Charles River is committed to helping our partners expedite their preclinical drug development with exceptional safety assessment services, state\-of\-the\-art facilities and expert regulatory guidance. From individual specialty toxicology and IND enabling studies to tailored packages and total laboratory support, our deeply experienced team can design and execute programs that anticipate challenges and avoid roadblocks for a smooth, efficient journey to market. Each year approximately 300 investigational new drug (IND) programs are conducted in our Safety Assessment facilities. **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. 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. 233963

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