Take your career to the next level at Labcorp as a Principal Scientist-Strategic Scientific Projects! This is a Hybrid position and on-site presence located in the Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC.

Position Summary:

The Principal Scientist, Strategic Scientific Projects is responsible for identifying new associations, disease progression markers, new scientific and medical understanding from our data and results from concept through execution in a way that is consistent with Labcorp’s mission, values, and strategy especially as it is related to Personalized Medicine and Care.

This role might be a good fit if you:

• Are passionate about healthcare and want to contribute to Labcorp’s mission of improving health and improving lives

• Enjoy connecting data, results and outcomes to look for new solutions and publishing results

• Enjoy designing clinical studies and writing up summaries and potential accreditation and FDA submissions, technical writing

• Utilize data in decision-making, publications, scientific meetings, sales and marketing collateral

Preferred qualifications:

• Medical background

• Industry experience in clinical research

• Exceptionally strong communication and relationship-building skills

• Applied Scientific background

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Help to Define target areas for analysis

• Working across key business units to understand potential opportunities because of gaps in understanding

• Collaborating cross-functionally within areas to understand what is needed for patient care or tools for Pharma – early detection markers, additional data for payor coverage

• Identifying patient groups and test results to review

• Looking at data – studying relationships, potential connections and outcomes to patient management

• Design and partner to execute on any additional clinical studies as needed

• Communicating status and successes with senior and executive leadership, payor solutions team, other scientific and medical stakeholders

• Developing and implementing regular communication format and cadence to ensure awareness of status and successes

• Presenting status to senior and executive leaders across, payor solutions team, Biopharma, Scientific and Medical colleagues,

• Present to BATs (business advisory teams, regularly)- projects are tracked

• Make sure data is presentation ready, publication ready

Education

• MD/ PhD preferred OR

• MBA with comparable experience required

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. Casual, PRN & Part Time employees regularly scheduled to work less than 20 hours are eligible to participate in the 401(k) Plan only. For more detailed information, please click here.

Labcorp is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer:

As an EOE/AA employer, Labcorp strives for diversity and inclusion in the workforce and does not tolerate harassment or discrimination of any kind. We make employment decisions based on the needs of our business and the qualifications of the individual and do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy or other medical conditions/needs), family or parental status, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, personal appearance, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic. Additionally, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law.

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