Senior Director IT, Specialty Labs (AI)

Location: Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Salary: $140,100–$390,400 annual base pay

Company

IQVIA provides clinical research services, commercial insights, and healthcare intelligence for the life sciences and healthcare industries.

What you will do

• Define the Specialty Labs technology vision, product strategy, target-state capabilities, and multi-year roadmap.
• Lead portfolio planning, budgeting, investment prioritization, governance, and benefits realization.
• Modernize, standardize, integrate, and manage the lifecycle of laboratory, scientific, and business-support platforms.
• Set the strategy for scientific data, interoperability, analytics, automation, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Drive digitization and automation of laboratory workflows while improving quality, audit readiness, scalability, and client value.
• Lead technology due diligence, acquisition integration, product adoption, operational performance, and organizational capability building.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, life sciences, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Significant leadership experience in technology, digital product management, laboratory operations, or scientific systems within a complex global organization.
• Experience defining technology or product strategy and delivering executable roadmaps with measurable business outcomes.
• Strong understanding of LIMS, ELN, scientific data, laboratory automation, system integration, and validated applications.
• Experience in a regulated life sciences, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or laboratory environment.
• Proven financial, executive stakeholder, matrix leadership, and senior people leadership experience.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in technology, business, engineering, or life sciences.
• Experience with enterprise laboratory modernization, platform harmonization, legacy-system retirement, scientific data platforms, analytics, AI, automation, or bioinformatics.
• Experience supporting acquisitions, integrations, organizational transformations, external clients, strategic partners, or technology vendors.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with health, welfare, and other benefits.
• Opportunity to lead globally distributed teams in a collaborative, matrixed organization.
• Focus on quality, compliance, operational excellence, innovation, and accountability.
• Incentive plans, bonuses, or other compensation may be available depending on the position.