LifeLabs

Senior Operations Leader, Canada - ExamOne

LifeLabs$112K — $143K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of senior operations leadership in Canadian healthcare or laboratory services.
  • Proven experience managing mobile phlebotomy or decentralized healthcare networks.
  • Strong relationship management skills with complex stakeholder environments.
  • Expertise in budget management and financial literacy relating to P&L management.
  • Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, Business, or a related field.

Responsibilities

  • Direct Canadian phlebotomy and health collection operations ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations.
  • Drive growth and customer retention by owning the Canadian P&L and key business metrics.
  • Serve as lead operational stakeholder in LifeLabs partnership, optimizing service delivery.
  • Manage account and customer service teams to resolve escalations and uphold satisfaction scores.
  • Oversee staffing models and resource management for a mix of full-time and contract employees.
  • Implement Lean methodologies to enhance operational efficiency and innovation.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive employee group benefits including health coverage for employees and their families.
  • Retirement savings plan to help secure financial futures.
  • Vacations and wellness days to encourage work-life balance.
  • Awards-winning wellness programs addressing mental, physical, and financial health.
  • Professional development resources and reimbursement for memberships.
Full Job Description
Position Summary:

As the Senior Operations Leader for ExamOne's Canadian operations, you will oversee the end-to-end delivery of phlebotomy and health collection services. This role is responsible for scaling a high-performing network of 30+ regular status employees and 400 contingent on-call resource pool located across Canada to achieve aggressive growth, financial and customer satisfaction targets. You will serve as the primary liaison between ExamOne Canada and LifeLabs (a leading Canadian laboratory diagnostics company) and the US-based mobile phlebotomy leaders, and Canadian commercial sales ensuring seamless operational excellence. This role will effectively and closely collaborate with key internal partners/stakeholders and strategic customers. This role is located in the Toronto, Canada metro area.

Vacancy status: This posting is for an existing position.

What You'll Do:
  • Strategic Operational Leadership: Direct all Canadian phlebotomy and health collection operations, ensuring 100% compliance with provincial healthcare regulations and internal quality standards.
  • Financial & Business Performance: Own the Canadian P&L; drive business growth and customer retention while meeting or exceeding revenue, OM and other key metrics.
  • Strategic Partnerships: Act as the lead operational stakeholder in the LifeLabs partnership and collaborate with the Canada Sales Team to onboard new accounts and optimize service delivery.
  • Account & Customer Excellence: Lead the account management and customer service teams to maintain high satisfaction scores and resolve complex service escalations.
  • Network & Resource Management: Manage a dual-model workforce consisting of 30+ full-time employees and an expansive network of mobile/contract resources, optimizing staffing models and scheduling for maximum efficiency.
  • Continuous Improvement: Implement Lean and continuous improvement methodologies to optimize workflows, reduce turnaround times, and drive operational innovation across the mobile network.


What You'll Bring:

Required Qualifications:
  • Experience: 8+ years of senior operations leadership in the Canadian healthcare or laboratory services sector.
  • Network Expertise: Proven track record managing mobile phlebotomy or decentralized healthcare networks across multiple provinces.
  • Relationship Management: Exceptional ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments, particularly with third-party lab partners like LifeLabs.
  • Business Acumen: Strong financial literacy with experience in budget development, P&L management, and growth-oriented operational scaling.
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, Business, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bi-lingual English/French preferred.
  • Laboratory & Phlebotomy skills and experience.
  • Experience working in large Canadian / U.S. companies.
  • Experience in the Life Insurance industry.

Leadership Behaviors:
  • Lead With Empathy: We lead with care, integrity, and respect, fostering a culture of belonging that builds trust and connection. We practice being fully present, listening intently to understand, and providing support and inspiration to be our best every day.
  • Develop our People: We prioritize an environment where everyone can learn, perform, and grow both personally and professionally at Quest. We support career progression and focus on building a robust succession pipeline ensuring development from within.
  • Think Lean: We intentionally adopt a mindset of simplification and optimization while applying problem solving in everything we do. We identify inefficiencies, remove barriers, and standardize processes to improve speed, clarity, and execution so we can deliver on our strategy with focus and impact.
  • Be Customer Obsessed: We don't just serve our customers; we are obsessed with their success. We work with urgency and passion, leveraging our expertise to deliver exceptional experiences and solutions. Every detail matters, and every customer interaction is an opportunity to define the future.
  • Adapt with Agility: We embrace challenges as opportunities to improve and inspire each other to navigate uncertainty with empathy and resilience. We proactively lead change by anticipating risks, communicating clearly, and making timely decisions that maintain momentum and advance our strategy.
  • Embrace Technology: We enable and coach our employees to leverage technology and innovative solutions that drive better-decision making, improve efficiency, and unlock new value for our employees, patients, and customers.


Why Join Us?

At LifeLabs, you'll have the opportunity to lead a critical commercial portfolio and directly shape how we engage and grow partnerships with healthcare practitioners across Canada.

This is a highly visible leadership role where you'll influence strategy, build and develop strong teams, and help drive meaningful business growth in an organization committed to innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

We're proud to foster an inclusive and supportive environment where diverse perspectives are valued, leadership is empowered, and your work can make a meaningful impact on healthcare delivery nationwide.

What We Offer:

Salary range: $112,565 - $143,520 annually (commensurate with experience).

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LifeLabs is also proud to offer resources, opportunities, as well as a collaborative and supportive environment that enables our team members to thrive.

In addition to a competitive compensation package, LifeLabs provides a comprehensive total rewards program, specific to the job position. Your package may include:

  • Employee Group Benefits: Competitive coverage for employees and their families to support their overall health and wellness needs, including Extended Health Care, Dental Care, and Life Insurance.
  • Retirement Savings Plan
  • Vacation and Wellness Days
  • Employee Wellness and Giving Programs: Our award winning mental, physical and financial wellness programs aim to address the comprehensive well-being of our team members, including resources like the Employee & Family Assistance Program, financial planning tools, and employee recognition initiatives.
  • Professional development and membership reimbursement, access to preferred rates and discount programs, including WorkPerks, Home and Auto Insurance, Costco Membership, etc., and optional health-related benefits.

Ready to empower healthier Canadians? Apply today!

About LifeLabs

LifeLabs is a Canadian-owned company that has been serving the healthcare needs of Canadians for more than 50 years. Today, LifeLabs performs more than 100 million laboratory tests every year, helping healthcare providers diagnose, treat, monitor and prevent disease in patients. LifeLabs is committed to being a trusted healthcare partner and providing Canadians with the highest quality laboratory services. The company operates more than 380 collection centers across Canada and has a team of more than 6,000 professionals.
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6,000 employees
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Founded
2011

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