Job Description
We are seeking Manager for our Laboratory Automation & AI Transformation Lab to join IQVIA Laboratories at Durham, NC.
We hire passionate innovators who drive healthcare forward through thoughtful and inclusive collaboration. If you want to discover a career with greater purpose, join us as we transform and accelerate research and development.
Job Summary:
Lead the transformation of our ligand binding bioanalytical laboratory into an end-to-end digitally orchestrated and physically automated operation powered by AI-assisted workflows. This role drives the design, deployment, and adoption of new ways of working across sample handling, instrument integration, digital data capture, automated review and reporting, and compliant documentation.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Lead the automation transformation roadmap from concept through scaled deployment
- Design and optimize end-to-end workflows across sample receipt, preparation, analysis, data capture, review, and reporting
- Manage change across scientists, Quality Control, and operations by addressing skill gaps, role evolution, and adoption needs
- Lead a multidisciplinary team of automation engineers, scientists, and QC documentation specialists to deliver measurable results
- Define and prioritize the automation product backlog, including requirements, delivery sequencing, and user adoption
- Establish effective operating rhythms such as sprint planning, standups, retrospectives, and release reviews where appropriate
- Partner with Quality to implement quality-by-design, validation strategies, change control, and inspection readiness
- Drive adoption through training, playbooks, ownership models, and clear exception-handling processes
What We Are Looking For:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Science/Engineering or related field required
- 5+ years in laboratory operations, lab transformation, automation programs, or digital lab systems.
- Experience implementing lab automation and/or digital lab platforms, including LIMS, ELN, and instrument integration
- Familiarity with validation approaches and regulated laboratory environments, including risk-based validation, CSV, 21 CFR Part 11 concepts, data integrity, and audit trails
- Other equivalent combination of education, training, and experience may be accepted in lieu of degree
The Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Needed for This Role:
- Strong leadership capability with experience guiding cross-functional technical teams through complex transformation initiatives
- Excellent communication and stakeholder influence skills across scientists, engineers, Quality, IT, and leadership
- Ability to lead change effectively, resolve resistance through engagement, and build adoption into solutions from day one
- Lean and agile operational leadership in technical or regulated environments
- Familiarity with AI-assisted workflows such as automated review, anomaly detection, and report drafting
What We Offer You:
We put our employees at the center of everything we do and are committed to providing them, and their families, with benefits that meet their diverse and changing needs. We invest in integrated benefits programs and resources to take care of our employees' physical, mental and emotional, financial and social well-being so they can thrive at home and at work, at any stage of their well-being journey.
To learn more about our benefits, visit https://jobs.iqvia.com/benefits.
If you're looking to unleash your potential, join IQVIA Laboratories to help make the extraordinary possible!
IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com
IQVIA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by applicable law. https://jobs.iqvia.com/eoe
IQVIA is committed to integrity in our hiring process and maintains a zero tolerance policy for candidate fraud. All information and credentials submitted in your application must be truthful and complete. Any false statements, misrepresentations, or material omissions during the recruitment process will result in immediate disqualification of your application, or termination of employment if discovered later, in accordance with applicable law. We appreciate your honesty and professionalism.
The potential base pay range for this role, when annualized, is $80,200.00 - $167,200.00. The actual base pay offered may vary based on a number of factors including job-related qualifications such as knowledge, skills, education, and experience; location; and/or schedule (full or part-time). Dependent on the position offered, incentive plans, bonuses, and/or other forms of compensation may be offered, in addition to a range of health and welfare and/or other benefits.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Durham, North Carolina |
| Industry | Healthcare Services |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1982 |
| Website | https://www.iqvia.com/ |
About Company
IQVIA™ is The Human Data Science Company™, focused on using data and science to help healthcare clients find better solutions for their patients. Formed through the merger of IMS Health and Quintiles, IQVIA offers a broad range of solutions that harness advances in healthcare information, technology, analytics and human ingenuity to drive healthcare forward.
Healthcare is an industry designed to help humans. As a global community, we continuously invest and commit to advancing human health. To deliver value and real outcomes. To rise to the challenge to find the next breakthrough by making the most of increasingly limited resources.
We are inspired by the potential and propelled by the possibilities. We share the vision to drive healthcare forward. To see how we can help accelerate progress and achievements. Others are developing these medical breakthroughs. We do our part by using breakthroughs in insights, technology and human intelligence to reimagine and deliver ways to help make them a reality.
It’s bigger than better clinical trials. Or advances in technologies and analytics. Or faster insights. It’s about exploring a new path to better health outcomes via Human Data Science. It’s about harnessing the power of the IQVIA CORE™ to channel the insights, commercial and scientific depth, and executional expertise that drive maximum value for our customers.
Motivated by the industry we help, we’re committed to providing solutions that enable life sciences companies to innovate with confidence, maximize opportunities, and, ultimately, drive human health outcomes forward.
Skills
- Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Automation Engineeringunmatched
- Biologyunmatched
- Change Controlunmatched
- Change Managementunmatched
- Clinical Researchunmatched
- Code of Federal Regulationsunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Customer Acquisitionunmatched
- Data Collectionunmatched
- Data Qualityunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Error Handlingunmatched
- Establish Prioritiesunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- Laboratoryunmatched
- Laboratory Automationunmatched
- Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)unmatched
- Laboratory Operationsunmatched
- Laboratory Systemsunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Ligand Bindingunmatched
- Medical Treatmentunmatched
- Patient Careunmatched
- Product Backlogunmatched
- Quality Controlunmatched
- Research & Development (R&D)unmatched
- Riskunmatched
- Scientific Publicationsunmatched
- Sprint Planningunmatched
- Team Lead/Managerunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
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