HR Business Partner

Location:

Kuopio (70800) – Finland

Salary:

Competitive

Type:

Permanent

Main Industry:

Search Science Jobs

Other Industries & Skills:

Manufacturing, Recruitment

Advertiser:

Charles River Laboratories, Inc.

Job ID:

133143677

Posted On:

01 July 2026

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.

Experience interpreting and applying labor law in complex situations (e.g., reorganizations, terminations, co-operation procedures,) and translating legal requirements into practical guidance for people leaders.

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
Previous experience in leading projects and HRIS applications

 

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 flexible 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 4500-5500EUR.

 

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 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/Disabled/Vet.

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