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Laboratory Operations Management

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Manager

Individual contributor route

Technical or professional depth, without managing people.

This family has no individual-contributor ladder.

Management route

Managing people. It is not the step above the individual route: it is a different job and asks for different evidence.

  1. Supervisor / Team Lead, Laboratory OperationsM0Optional frontline layer
  2. Manager, Laboratory OperationsM1
  3. Senior Manager, Laboratory OperationsM2
  4. Director, Laboratory OperationsM3
  5. Senior Director, Laboratory OperationsM4
  6. AVP / Head of Laboratory OperationsM5Optional executive layer
  7. Vice President, Laboratory OperationsM6
  8. Senior Vice President, Laboratory OperationsM7

Source: PROCOMER FTZ benchmark; SFIA; PMI