IT Sr. Technical Specialist

Labcorp is a leading global life sciences company that provides comprehensive clinical laboratory and drug development services. With a mission to improve health and improve lives, Labcorp delivers world-class diagnostic solutions, brings innovative medicines to patients faster, and uses technology to improve patient care.

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n search of a IT Sr. Technical Specialist to drive Discovery, Design and Solution development for our Specimen Tracking Problem Management System. The IT Sr. Technical Specialist will take ownership of working cross-functionally with several areas including PMO, business leaders, Lab operations, IT development, IT QA and sales. The candidate works collaboratively with these functional teams to define plans, and Requirements for a seamless handoff from Concept to Delivery. The IT Sr. Technical Specialist must advocate and prioritize business cases to execute on product strategy.

Essential Job Duties:

• Responsible for defining and supporting the LIMS Problem Management System to be used by multiple lines of business that perform specialty and clinical laboratory testing.
• Responsible for all aspects of future laboratory LIMS solutions, to include setting workflow direction, defining workflows, gathering and documenting requirements, integrating with existing products, deploying solutions and training users.
• Participates in the Laboratory Systems team and collaborates in accomplishing defined LIMS initiatives.
• Participates in the development of the overall IT strategy for LIMS development and deployment.
• Coordinates and manages the evaluation of risk assessments and change management for new disciplines migrating to the LIMS. Develop measurements and measures LIMS deployment and performance.
• Represents department in business meetings through good verbal and written communications and presentations.
• Partners with Operations Lead to ensure successful build of workflows, deployment of enhancements, and implementations.
• Establishes and maintains an effective combination of internal team skill sets, department relationships and vendor relationships necessary to meet or exceed technical needs for laboratory requirements.
• Fosters good working relationships with all departments while managing business expectation levels.
• Promotes, represents, and shares knowledge and experience with team and operation.
• Employs excellent requirements management skills and translates requirements into technical development of current or future products and/or services.
• Supports a collaborative environment of candor, trust and mutual respect.
• Develops appropriate technical, operational and scientific knowledge to provide superior guidance to team.
• Ensures compliance with company methodologies and processes to meet regulatory requirements and good business standards.
• Adheres to all appropriate corporate and departmental policies and procedures.
• Meets company, department and individual objectives.
• Travel as needed 20%

• 7+ years' experience in a medical laboratory environment (required)
• 5+ years' experience deploying laboratory information systems (preferred)
• 3+ years' experience as a team leader (preferred)
• 3+ years working as an IT Business Analyst defining and documenting Business Requirements and workflows.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent technical work experience.
• Able to work on multiple problems, identify/correct production issues, effectively manage and motivate project teams (required)
• Provide 24/7 product support on a rotating basis (required)
• Strong analytical and organizational skills (required)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (required)
• Highly motivated and enthusiastic, a self-starter (required) Incumbent will define, deploy, and support
• Laboratory Information Management Systems and Products to be used by multiple specialty laboratory departments.
• This individual will be responsible for specialty laboratory solutions, to include defining/configuring workflows and gathering/documenting requirements, integrating with existing products, working with and coordinating with LIMS vendors, deploying the solution, and training users.