# Senior Director, IT Products, Clinical Pharmacology Services & Laboratories

**Company**: Fortrea
**Location**: Leeds
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Senior Director, IT Products, Clinical Pharmacology Services & Laboratories leads technology product management and innovation for Fortrea's Clinical Pharmacology Services (CPS) business.

This leader owns the product strategy, roadmap, and innovation agenda for the CPS, clinic, and laboratory technology portfolio, transforming the business through automation, artificial intelligence, instrument connectivity, lab automation, and advanced analytics.

Key responsibilities include:

- Defining and executing the multi-year product strategy, roadmap, and investment priorities for technology supporting CPS, clinics, and laboratories

- Leading the full product lifecycle and establishing portfolio governance

- Driving innovation through automation, AI/ML, digital workflows, robotics, and advanced analytics

- Championing responsible AI adoption and experimentation

- Partnering with operational and scientific leaders to redesign workflows

- Developing executive-ready business cases for major technology programs

- Securing sponsorship and funding for large IT programs

- Owning the technology product portfolio for Fortrea's clinical research units

- Providing strategic ownership of early-phase clinical platforms

- Ensuring bedside and point-of-care technologies are integrated and validated

- Leading instrument integration and connectivity and laboratory automation

- Ensuring laboratory and clinic systems meet regulatory requirements

The ideal candidate will have:

- Extensive experience in information technology, technology product management, digital transformation, clinical technology, or laboratory technology within regulated environments

- Proven leadership experience and success defining and executing technology product strategy

- Experience developing business cases and securing sponsorship and funding for large IT programs

- Experience delivering technology for physical, patient-facing provider settings

- Working knowledge of early-phase clinical automation platforms

- Significant experience leading product portfolios, multidisciplinary teams, vendors, budgets, and complex cross-functional initiatives

Preferred qualifications include:

- Direct experience supporting Phase I or early-phase clinical research units

- Hands-on experience implementing or scaling ClinSpark, LIMS/LIS, ELN, instrument middleware, or laboratory automation and robotics

- Experience with medical device and instrument connectivity, interoperability standards, and OT/medical device security practices

The work environment includes:

- Office, home-based, clinical research unit (clinic), and laboratory environments

- Periodic presence in active clinic and laboratory areas

- Regular travel to clinic and laboratory sites

Physical demands include:

- Frequently stationary for 6-8 hours per day

- Repetitive hand movement and occasional crouching and stooping

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## Skills

### Required
- information technology
- technology product management
- digital transformation
- clinical technology
- laboratory technology
- automation
- artificial intelligence
- instrument connectivity
- lab automation
- advanced analytics
- ClinSpark
- LIMS/LIS
- ELN
- instrument middleware

### Nice to have
- Phase I clinical research units
- GLP bioanalytical laboratories
- medical device and instrument connectivity
- interoperability standards
- OT/medical device security practices
- AI
- intelligent automation
- digital health
- robotics solutions

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