Chief of Laboratory Services
About the role
The Chief of Laboratory Services is envisioned as the senior enterprise leader accountable for the clinical, operational, financial, and workforce performance of clinical laboratory services across all sites and testing environments.
Responsibilities
- Provide unified leadership, governance, and strategic direction for laboratory services
- Establish system-wide decision rights for strategy, standards, and performance
- Standardize performance management while preserving necessary local customization
- Strengthen quality, safety, regulatory readiness, and accreditation across all labs
- Align enabling functions (analytics, workforce development, vendor strategy) to support enterprise scale
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree in healthcare administration, business, laboratory science, or related field preferred
- MLS(ASCP) or comparable laboratory credential; additional leadership or quality credentials preferred
- Experience leading point-of-care testing governance, outreach/ambulatory lab growth, and enterprise laboratory standardization
- Demonstrated experience partnering with physician/medical director leaders in a dyad model preferred
- Leverage Lean/Six Sigma or comparable performance improvement training and demonstrate results
- Proven experience leading transformation, operating model change, and performance improvement across distributed teams
- Proven financial acumen including budget management, resource stewardship, and revenue integrity
- Ability to lead in a matrixed environment; effective partnering with physician leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
Benefits
Final scope and decision rights will be confirmed through the Clinical Laboratory Services design work; non-imaging procedural areas would be included only if explicitly assigned to Clinical Laboratory governance.
Pay
The successful candidate's placement on the wage range for this position will be determined based upon relevant job experience and other applicable factors. These amounts are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
Schedule
Full time