I don't know the details of what employers are looking for, however some institutions with a molecular lab certainly have PhD's as lab directors (overseen at some level by an MD, though that may only be at basically chairman level). They organize and manage the day-to-day operations of the molecular lab, ensuring quality control/assurance measures, validation, interpretation, etc. A lot (couldn't really advise about the actual numbers) of these labs are at academic centers, however, thus encourage or require some degree of research. I don't know about non-director type jobs that wouldn't require bringing grant money with you -- it's probably cheaper and more reasonable to hire and train a lab tech/medical technologist than get a PhD to do gruntwork when they've already completed their thesis and aren't trying to build a research reputation.
