2027 Summer Intern - Digital Media

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 Description

Key Responsibilities

Digital Channel Execution

• Support the execution of digital marketing campaigns across email, web, social media, paid media, and marketing automation platforms.
• Assist with campaign setup, deployment, quality assurance, and post-launch validation.
• Coordinate marketing assets, content, and campaign deliverables with internal teams and external partners.
• Help maintain digital marketing calendars and campaign schedules.
• Support audience segmentation and campaign targeting activities.

Marketing Operations & Program Support

• Assist in the management and organization of marketing campaign assets, documentation, and workflows.
• Help maintain campaign tracking and operational processes.
• Support process improvements that increase team efficiency and campaign effectiveness.
• Participate in cross-functional meetings and collaborate with stakeholders from marketing, sales, and creative teams.
• Contribute to special projects that support marketing technology, channel optimization, and customer engagement initiatives.

Reporting & Performance Monitoring

• Track campaign delivery and channel performance metrics.
• Assist with recurring reporting.
• Help identify trends and opportunities to improve campaign performance and audience engagement.
• Support the preparation of presentations and summaries for team reviews and planning discussions.

Strategic Planning Support

• Conduct research on industry trends, competitor activity, and digital marketing best practices.
• Assist in the development of channel plans, campaign recommendations, and audience engagement strategies.
• Support quarterly and annual planning activities through research, data gathering, and content preparation.
• Help document channel learnings and recommendations to inform future marketing initiatives.

Qualifications

Required

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Digital Media, or a related field.
• Must have at least one semester of your degree program left after completion of the internship
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel and PowerPoint.
• Interest in digital marketing, marketing technology, and customer engagement. Preferred
• Familiarity with email marketing, social media platforms, or marketing automation tools.
• Experience through coursework or internships in marketing, communications, or digital media.
• Basic understanding of digital marketing performance metrics and reporting.
• Able to work a Hybrid model, joining onsite at our Wilmington, MA location

What You'll Gain

• Hands-on experience executing digital marketing campaigns in a professional marketing environment.
• Exposure to enterprise marketing technologies and digital channels.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional business and marketing teams.
• Understanding of how digital marketing strategies are developed, activated, and measured.
• Opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects with visible business impact. This internship is ideal for a student who is interested in the intersection of digital marketing, campaign execution, marketing operations, and channel strategy, and who wants to build practical experience supporting real-world marketing programs.

Education

No degree required

Physical Requirements

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.

If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to crrecruitment_US@crl.com. This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

For more information, please visit www.criver.com.