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Senior Director, Product Management - Autoimmune (Specialty Medicine)

Labcorp is seeking a Senior Director, Product Management - Autoimmune (Specialty Medicine), to join our Team!

Responsibilities:

Owns strategy and lifecycle performance for a multi-product line autoimmune portfolio.

• Drives enterprise-level decision-making across investment priorities, roadmap, and growth strategy

• Influences senior stakeholders across R&D, Medical Affairs, Market Access, and Commercial teams without direct authority

• Shapes clinical positioning, evidence strategy, and market differentiation across disease states

• Establishes the vision for the autoimmune portfolio, defining long-term strategy, investment prioritization, and innovation roadmap aligned to enterprise objectives

• Leads enterprise-wide initiatives that advance portfolio differentiation, clinical value, and commercialization effectiveness

• Integrates scientific, clinical, regulatory, and market dynamics into cohesive portfolio strategies that inform executive decision-making

• Owns end-to-end portfolio lifecycle management, including roadmap, forecasting, pricing, and margin optimization across multiple offerings

• Drives cross-functional alignment at scale, influencing execution across Medical, R&D, Operations, Market Access, and Commercial

• Applies deep clinical expertise to identify unmet needs and translate them into strategic innovation and market opportunities

• Develops enterprise-level business cases, including market modeling, investment trade-offs, and long-term value creation

• Acts as a senior strategic advisor and spokesperson, influencing executive stakeholders and governance forums

• Identifies and advances strategic partnerships, licensing, or acquisition opportunities to expand capabilities

• Ensures end-to-end commercialization readiness, including launch excellence, scaling, and integration of new capabilities

• Partners with Marketing and Medical to elevate thought leadership and clinical authority in autoimmune diagnostics

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree.

• 12 or more years of experience in product management, portfolio strategy, or life sciences research.

• 10 or more years of experience in diagnostics, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, or life sciences.

Preferred Qualifications:

• An advanced degree (MBA, MS, MPH, PhD, or MD).

• 5 or more years experience in autoimmune disease states and specialty diagnostics.

Additional Job Standards:

• Demonstrated ownership of complex, multi-product line portfolios or diagnostic categories

• Proven ability to lead enterprise-level initiatives and influence senior stakeholders without direct reporting authority

• Experience with diagnostic ecosystems, including regulatory, reimbursement, and guideline frameworks

• Proven track record shaping clinical positioning, evidence strategies, and market adoption

• Experience identifying and evaluating innovation, partnerships, or M&A opportunities

About the Role

This role sits within Labcorp's highly specialized Specialty Medicine portfolio and is responsible for leading the Autoimmune portfolio as a unified diagnostic category, requiring deep domain expertise and the ability to drive strategy across a complex, multi-product landscape. Unlike traditional product roles aligned to a single offering, this position owns a broad portfolio spanning multiple disease states and testing approaches, with responsibility for long-term growth, clinical positioning, and innovation.

The Senior Director will play a critical role in shaping enterprise direction, influencing long-range strategy, and delivering sustained growth across the autoimmune portfolio and adjacent specialty areas. Within Diagnostic Marketing and Labcorp's Specialty Medicine business, the Senior Director, Product Management is a portfolio-level strategic leader responsible for driving performance, differentiation, and innovation across a complex and highly specialized testing landscape.

This role extends beyond traditional product management, requiring the ability to operate at an enterprise level, influencing senior leadership, guiding cross-functional decision-making, and shaping clinical and commercial strategy across multiple interdependent product lines.

The Senior Director serves as the recognized subject matter expert in autoimmune diagnostics, translating deep clinical and scientific knowledge into actionable business strategies that drive competitive advantage and long-term value creation.

Skills and Competencies:

• Enterprise and long-range strategic thinking

• Executive-level influence and stakeholder management

• Leadership across highly matrixed organizations without direct authority

• Deep scientific and clinical expertise in specialty diagnostics

• Portfolio lifecycle management across complex, interdependent offerings

• Financial acumen, forecasting, and value creation

• Market access and reimbursement strategy

• Commercialization excellence and operational readiness

• Competitive intelligence and market insight

The candidate must reside in New York City, NY; Tampa, FL; Houston/Dallas, TX; Phoenix, AZ; San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Seattle, WA; Raritan, NJ; or Durham/Burlington, NC, located near a Labcorp hub. Applicants who live within 35 miles of either the Burlington, NC or Durham, NC location will follow a hybrid schedule, which includes a minimum of three in-office days per week at an assigned location-either Burlington or Durham-supporting both collaboration and flexibility.

Application Window: Application window will close on August 17, 2026.

Pay Range: $170,000 - $190,000 annually + annual bonus and equity eligibility.

The position is also eligible for an annual bonus under the Labcorp Bonus Plan. Bonuses are payable based on corporate and/or business segment performance and are subject to individual performance modifiers. Compensation may also include discretionary short- and long-term incentive packages.
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.Employees who are regularly scheduled toworka 7 on/7 off schedule are eligible to receive all the foregoing benefits except PTO or FTO. For more detailed information, pleaseclick here.

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