Director, Enterprise Oncology & Dx Strategy

Labcorp; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 230,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k)

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Labcorp is seeking a Director, Enterprise Oncology & Diagnostics Strategic Initiatives to partner with the SVP and senior leaders across Oncology, Diagnostics Medical Affairs, Clinical Effectiveness, and related functions. You will translate enterprise priorities into coordinated action, shape strategic plans, and drive execution across a complex matrix organization.

The role requires strong business judgment, analytical capabilities, and the ability to influence across senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• 8+ years in healthcare, diagnostics, life sciences, pharmaceutical/biotech, consulting, or related field with senior stakeholder leadership.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and aligning leaders across multiple functions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and translate enterprise priorities into executable strategies and roadmaps.
• Partner with finance to create budgets, forecasts, and performance dashboards.
• Integrate medical affairs, clinical effectiveness, and market access into strategic decisions.
• Lead cross-functional workstreams and present executive briefs for senior leaders.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communications

Stakeholder management

Financial planning

Performance tracking

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Labcorp is a global leader in laboratory services, providing the insights and answers that help healthcare providers, patients, researchers, pharmaceutical companies and health systems make confident decisions and improve outcomes. Through our unparalleled science, data, technology and laboratory network, we advance diagnostics, accelerate innovation and help address some of the world’s most important health challenges. As we shape the future of healthcare, we are leveraging advanced technologies, intelligent digital solutions and data-driven innovation across our operations to enhance how work gets done and deliver greater value to customers and patients. With our global scale and deep expertise, you’ll have the opportunity to do meaningful work, grow your career and make a real impact on people’s health around the world. Together, we’re improving health and improving lives.

Job Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Execution

• Partner directly with the SVP to develop, refine, and execute strategic priorities across Enterprise Oncology, Diagnostics Medical Affairs, and Clinical Effectiveness, translating strategy into clear priorities, workstreams, milestones, accountabilities, and measurable outcomes.
• Support annual and multiyear strategic planning, organizational roadmaps, investment decisions, and capability development, while identifying opportunities for organic growth, partnerships, portfolio expansion, and other enterprise strategic opportunities.
• Be a strategic partner to leaders across Diagnostics Medical Affairs, Medical Science Liaison teams, Clinical Effectiveness, Oncology, and other areas within the SVP’s portfolio, helping align priorities and execution across teams.
• Act as the primary integrator across functions, connecting initiatives that span multiple organizations and facilitating resolution of cross-functional issues, dependencies, and barriers to execution.

Business & Financial Management

• Partner with Finance and business leaders to support annual operating plans, budgets, forecasts, investment decisions, performance reviews, and resource planning.
• Responsible for maintaining visibility into key financial, medical affairs, commercial, strategic, and organizational performance indicators through scorecards and dashboards aligned to enterprise priorities.
• Analyze business performance, identify key drivers and variances, and partner with leaders to develop appropriate actions and improve performance.
• Support investment prioritization, headcount planning, and business case development, ensuring major strategic initiatives are tied to measurable business and organizational outcomes.

Medical Affairs & Clinical Effectiveness Strategy

• Partner with Diagnostics Medical Affairs leadership to establish priorities, objectives, metrics, and strategic plans across field medical and Medical Science Liaison organizations.
• Support alignment of Medical Affairs activities with enterprise strategy, product launches, evidence-generation priorities, customer needs, and business objectives while maintaining appropriate scientific and medical independence.
• Partner with Clinical Effectiveness leadership to integrate clinical evidence, utilization, guidelines, health economics, and patient-impact considerations into enterprise strategy and decision-making.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Executive Decision Support

• Build strong relationships across Oncology, Diagnostics, Medical Affairs, Clinical Effectiveness, Market Access, Finance, Commercial, Business Development, Marketing, Operations, Regulatory, Legal, Technology, and other enterprise functions.
• Lead cross-functional workstreams involving senior stakeholders, ensuring clarity of objectives, ownership, timelines, dependencies, and decision rights while identifying opportunities for greater coordination, efficiency, and enterprise value creation.
• Develop and synthesize executive-level presentations, strategic briefs, decision documents, business cases, talking points, and other materials into concise, decision-oriented communications for senior leadership.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• 8 years of progressive experience in healthcare, diagnostics, life sciences, pharmaceutical/biotechnology, laboratory medicine, consulting, corporate strategy, medical affairs, or a related field, with demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives involving senior stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years experience within oncology, precision medicine, molecular diagnostics, laboratory medicine, medical affairs, or drug development.
• 5 years experience working directly with senior executives or enterprise leadership teams and supporting functions such as Medical Affairs, Medical Science Liaison, Clinical Effectiveness, Market Access.
• 5 years experience with P&L management, budgeting, forecasting, investment analysis, business-case development, and development of KPIs, scorecards, dashboards, or performance-management frameworks.
• 5 yearsexperience in management consulting, corporate strategy, commercial strategy, medical affairs strategy, or another highly cross-functional leadership role.

Labcorp is advancing an integrated strategy across Oncology, Diagnostics Medical Affairs, and Clinical Effectiveness. As the organization expands its leadership in oncology and specialty diagnostics, strong coordination, disciplined execution, and strategic alignment are increasingly important.

The Director, Enterprise Oncology & Diagnostics Strategic Initiatives will serve as a senior strategic partner to the Senior Vice President, Enterprise Oncology and Diagnostics Medical Affairs, helping drive priorities, organizational alignment, decision-making, and execution across the portfolio. The Director will work closely with leaders across Oncology, Diagnostics Medical Affairs, Clinical Effectiveness, Biopharma Lab Services, Finance, Commercial, Operations, Market Access, Business Development, and Strategy.

This individual will be responsible for translating enterprise priorities into coordinated action, support leadership decision-making, maintain visibility to key business and medical metrics, and ensure critical initiatives advance effectively. Success requires strong business judgment, executive presence, analytical capability, organizational discipline, and the ability to influence across a complex, matrixed organization.

Benefits:

• Employees regularly scheduled to work 20 or more hours per week are eligible for comprehensive benefits including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, STD/LTD, 401(k), Paid Time Off (PTO) or Flexible Time Off (FTO), Tuition Reimbursement and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Employees regularly scheduled to work less than 20 hours, Casual, Intern, and Temporary employees are only eligible to participate in the 401(k) Plan.
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