Associate Director, Metrology

IQVIA

Durham, North Carolina

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Best Practices, Biology, Budget Management, Business Growth, Business Support, Calibration, Clinical Research, Coaching, Communication Skills, Continuous Improvement, Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA) Systems, Cost Control, Establish Priorities, Financial Operations, Healthcare, Instrumentation, Laboratory, Laboratory Equipment, Laboratory Management, Laboratory Operations, Leadership, Maintain Compliance, Medical Treatment, Metrology, Operational Strategy, Patient Care, Performance Metrics, Preventative Maintenance, Regulations, Regulatory Requirements, Research & Development (R&D), Risk Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, Safety/Work Safety, Set Goals, Strategic Planning, Time Management
LOCATION
Durham, North Carolina
POSTED
30+ days ago
Internal Job Description

We are seeking an Associate Director, Metrology to join IQVIA Laboratories.

We hire passionate innovators who drive healthcare forward through thoughtful and inclusive collaboration. If you want to discover a career with greater purpose, join us as we transform and accelerate research and development.

Job Summary:

The Director, Metrology provides global leadership for laboratory instrumentation and metrology programs across IQVIA Laboratories, ensuring compliance, operational readiness, and scalability to support business growth. This role partners cross‑functionally and with executive leadership to drive strategy, innovation, and continuous improvement across a global laboratory footprint.

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Lead and oversee global metrology operations across approximately 17 IQVIA laboratory sites, including Central Labs and Specialty Labs

  • Develop and execute departmental strategy aligned with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and long‑term growth

  • Establish goals, metrics, and performance expectations for a global team, driving accountability and operational excellence

  • Ensure effective resourcing, prioritization, and workload management across regions and sites

  • Provide oversight of equipment lifecycle management, preventative maintenance, calibration, and compliance programs using enterprise asset systems

  • Serve as an escalation point for quality, safety, and operational issues, ensuring timely CAPA resolution and root cause analysis

  • Partner cross‑functionally to evaluate, select, and implement new instrumentation, technologies, and vendor solutions

  • Drive global harmonization, best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives across laboratory operations

What We Are Looking For:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

  • Extensive experience overseeing complex laboratory instrumentation and metrology programs within regulated environments

  • Strong working knowledge of laboratory equipment compliance, preventative maintenance programs, and regulatory standards

  • Other equivalent combination of education, training, and experience may be accepted in lieu of degree

The Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Needed for This Role:

  • Proven ability to lead and influence global, cross‑functional teams and senior stakeholders

  • Strong financial, operational, and strategic planning skills, including budget development and cost optimization

  • Excellent communication, coaching, and change‑management capabilities

  • Ability to assess risk, prioritize competing demands, and drive solutions across multiple sites and business units

What We Offer You:

We put our employees at the center of everything we do and are committed to providing them, and their families, with benefits that meet their diverse and changing needs. We invest in integrated benefits programs and resources to take care of our employees' physical, mental and emotional, financial and social well‑being so they can thrive at home and at work, at any stage of their well‑being journey.

To learn more about our benefits, visit https://jobs.iqvia.com/benefits.

If you're looking to unleash your potential, join IQVIA Laboratories to help make the extraordinary possible!

IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com

IQVIA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by applicable law. https://jobs.iqvia.com/eoe

IQVIA is committed to integrity in our hiring process and maintains a zero tolerance policy for candidate fraud. All information and credentials submitted in your application must be truthful and complete. Any false statements, misrepresentations, or material omissions during the recruitment process will result in immediate disqualification of your application, or termination of employment if discovered later, in accordance with applicable law. We appreciate your honesty and professionalism.

The potential base pay range for this role, when annualized, is $89,000.00 - $206,700.00. The actual base pay offered may vary based on a number of factors including job-related qualifications such as knowledge, skills, education, and experience; location; and/or schedule (full or part-time). Dependent on the position offered, incentive plans, bonuses, and/or other forms of compensation may be offered, in addition to a range of health and welfare and/or other benefits.

About the Company

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IQVIA

IQVIA™ is The Human Data Science Company™, focused on using data and science to help healthcare clients find better solutions for their patients. Formed through the merger of IMS Health and Quintiles, IQVIA offers a broad range of solutions that harness advances in healthcare information, technology, analytics and human ingenuity to drive healthcare forward. Healthcare is an industry designed to help humans. As a global community, we continuously invest and commit to advancing human health. To deliver value and real outcomes. To rise to the challenge to find the next breakthrough by making the most of increasingly limited resources. We are inspired by the potential and propelled by the possibilities. We share the vision to drive healthcare forward. To see how we can help accelerate progress and achievements. Others are developing these medical breakthroughs. We do our part by using breakthroughs in insights, technology and human intelligence to reimagine and deliver ways to help make them a reality. It’s bigger than better clinical trials. Or advances in technologies and analytics. Or faster insights. It’s about exploring a new path to better health outcomes via Human Data Science. It’s about harnessing the power of the IQVIA CORE™ to channel the insights, commercial and scientific depth, and executional expertise that drive maximum value for our customers. Motivated by the industry we help, we’re committed to providing solutions that enable life sciences companies to innovate with confidence, maximize opportunities, and, ultimately, drive human health outcomes forward.
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Healthcare Services
FOUNDED
1982
WEBSITE
https://www.iqvia.com/