Vp, Core Lab

**About Cleerly**

We're Cleerly - a healthcare company based in Denver, Colorado and New York, New York that's revolutionizing how heart disease is diagnosed, treated, and tracked. We were founded in 2017 by one of the world's leading cardiologists and are a growing team of world-class engineering, operations, medical affairs, marketing, and sales leaders.

Cleerly is creating a new standard of care for heart disease through value-based, AI-driven precision diagnostic solutions with the goal of helping prevent heart attacks. Our technology goes beyond traditional measures of heart disease by enabling comprehensive quantification and characterization of atherosclerosis, or plaque buildup, in each of the heart arteries. Cleerly's solutions are supported by more than a decade of performing some of the world's largest clinical trials to identify important findings beyond symptoms that increase a person's risk of heart attacks.

**About the Team**

Cleerly's Core Lab, with employees in Lisbon, Portugal as well as the US, provides strategic quality assurance services to users of our technology. We are a team of expert imaging analysts dedicated to Cleerly's purpose of creating a world without heart attacks. The team is poised for an exciting period of growth as Cleerly ramps up its commercial operations.

**About the Opportunity**

The VP, Core Lab reports to the Chief Operating Officer and is accountable for the successful operation of all Core Lab activities globally. The person in this role will either be based in Lisbon, Portugal or be able to spend meaningful time there on a consistent basis. This role is perfect for someone who loves to implement TPS, VAVE, and/or LEAN methodologies, is an experienced people and operational leader, and has a passion for our purpose of creating a world without heart attacks.

**Responsibilities**
- **Process & Operational Design & Management**:

- Design and manage highly repeatable, auditable, and measurable lean processes that lead to very high quality results at high velocity.
- Leveraging results of audits, retrospectives, and client feedback develop methods to continuously improve.
- Collaborating with the BI team, develop dashboards that track KPIs and enable near real time visibility of current outputs versus benchmarks to quickly identify variance from SLA.
- Working with other leaders as needed, write SOPs to codify best practices and train the Core Lab team and others accordingly.
- Develop cross-functional communication processes to ensure effective knowledge transfer and ongoing communication throughout the client and research initiative lifecycle.
- Drive Core Lab capacity planning, ensuring alignment between future business needs and internal resource availability.
- Coordinate with Client Services organization in designing and managing new client onboarding processes.
- Implement technology that eases operational processes of the Core Lab.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
- **Stakeholder Management**:

- Drive coordination with the Technology organization in order to: (1) define and prioritize product requests that improve Core lab efficiency and quality; and (2) support the effective testing and releasing of new features.
- Serve as Core Lab point person for client and internal escalations.
- **People & Organizational Leadership**:

- Hire, retain, and develop the best talent.
- Create organizational designs and methods that optimize resource utilization.
- Design and implement a multi-geography strategy to avoid a single point of failure and to maximize time zone coverage.

**Requirements**:

- 10+ years of experience in a senior leadership role requiring the design and management of complex operational processes using TPS, VAVE, and/or LEAN methodologies
- Strong experience in operations or systems engineering is required
- Some experience in health care is required
- Experience in cross sectional imaging (CT, US, nuclear medicine or MRI) and cardiovascular is helpful, not required
- Highly analytical, data driven, process oriented, systems thinker
- Collaborative, agile, and solution oriented cross-functional leader
- Proven experience as a talent developer and team builder
- Must have the desire to work in a very fast paced startup environment
- Lean Six Sigma Certification or similar is highly desirable

**Why you should apply**:

- **PURPOSE**: Cleerly's purpose is to create a world without heart attacks. With our new paradigm for precision heart care, we will leave big footprints in the sands of time. Help us make that a reality
- **COMMUNITY**: We are building a truly world class team of talented problem solvers. While we have diverse backgrounds, we are united in our commitment to each other, to our customers, and to the patients our technology serves.
- **GROWTH**: We prioritize learning and growth. As a rapid growth company, there is always space for new challenges and responsibilities.
- **OWNERSHIP**: Everyone on the team contr