Senior Director, Lab Quality

Calling All Esteemed Leaders! Are you a senior laboratory leader with deep expertise in quality, accreditatio, and regulatory compliance who thrives in complex, highly regulated healthcare environments? Do you excel at influencing system‑wide performance, aligning divisional laboratory teams, and ensuring safe, reliable, and high‑quality diagnostic services at scale? If so, this Senior Director, Clinical Laboratory opportunity may be an excellent fit.

The Role

The Senior Director, Clinical Laboratory provides strategic, programmatic, and analytic leadership in partnership with Divisional Executives, supporting divisional laboratory operations through quality oversight, regulatory accreditation programming, and contracting support.

In close collaboration with the System Laboratory Chief Administrative Officer, System Laboratory Team, and Divisional Laboratory Executive Leaders, this role contributes to divisional and regional laboratory operations in the areas of quality management, accreditation readiness, regulatory compliance, and Pathology and Physician Services contracting.

As a member of the Laboratory Executive Team, the Senior Director is accountable for advancing Providence Laboratories’ quality policy and overarching goals to ensure that all laboratory departments deliver test results that are:

• Accurate

• Timely

• Compliant with all laws and regulations

• Affordable

• Continuously improved

• Consistent with Providence Health & Services core values

   

The role provides direct oversight of Divisional Laboratory Quality teams, offering mentorship, guidance, and governance for quality and accreditation activities. The Senior Director also serves as the most senior support for Pathology and Physician Services contracting, ensuring alignment and collaboration with Providence Physician Compensation and the Department of Legal Affairs. In addition, the role partners with System Compliance to proactively identify and resolve compliance issues.

What You’ll Do

System Quality Strategy & Accreditation Leadership

• Develop, implement, and maintain the System Laboratory Quality Plan, ensuring alignment across system, divisional, and ministry‑level quality activities.

• Ensure laboratories across the system maintain continuous inspection readiness while fostering a just culture.

• Establish structures, programs, and caregiver development initiatives that support highly reliable laboratory services.

• Maintain conditions necessary to meet all regulatory requirements related to CLIA, OSHA, and CAP, and ensure compliance with the Laboratory Compliance Program.

• In collaboration with the Laboratory CMO, develop system‑standardized quality programming that ensures regulatory compliance and high‑quality patient services.

Divisional & Governance Leadership

• Provide direct oversight and mentorship to Divisional Laboratory Quality teams.

• Partner with Divisional Laboratory Executive Leaders to ensure quality leaders allocate appropriate time and resources across accreditation cycles.

• Provide indirect oversight of Providence laboratory leaders in acute‑care settings through the laboratory governance structure.

• Serve as executive sponsor within laboratory governance, including leadership of high‑complexity testing technical workgroups.

• Travel as needed to deploy system strategies, support regional needs, and meet aggressive implementation timelines.

• Assume accountability for divisional quality leadership in support of executive laboratory governance objectives.

Performance Improvement & Analytics

• Collaborate with senior system leadership on long‑range strategic planning initiatives to improve quality, integration, patient experience, and value.