Senior Director, AI Commercial Business Partner
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About the Role
AstraZeneca is seeking a Senior Director, AI Commercial Business Partner to lead AI strategy and adoption across the International region. The role involves translating business needs into AI use cases, managing AI program lifecycles, and driving measurable business impact.
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Responsibilities
- Own AI strategy and portfolio for the Region, maintaining AI roadmaps aligned with business needs
- Translate business needs into well scoped AI use cases with clear metrics and requirements
- Co lead solution delivery, oversee lifecycle management including pilot shaping, deployment, adoption, and value realization
- Act as change leader embedding AI into operations, support AI literacy, and ensure data governance and compliance
- Spot and shape new enterprise initiatives by scanning internal/external trends and partnering with functional leaders
- Track industry, market and innovation shifts to anticipate opportunities and risks
- Define KPIs and monitoring to evaluate progress and pivot when needed
Requirements
- Substantial proven experience leading transformation programs in commercial pharma
- Demonstrated commercial and scientific domain experience
- Strong analytical and communication skills at all levels of the organization
- Effective interpersonal and relationship management skills with consultative approach
- Operational effectiveness, highly organized process with follow through
- Financial background and understanding of forecasts, budgets, financial activities and tools
- Experience in strategic planning processes and tools and/or project management tools
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What you'll do
- AI Commercial Business Leaders are the embedded translators between business functions and the AI Commercial organization, responsible for the success of AI programs.
- The role is strategically positioned in therapy areas, markets, and functions with the objectives to drive translation, adoption, and lifecycle management of AI solutions in the business.
- Key deliverables include translating business needs into well scoped AI use cases and ensure each solution delivers measurable business impact.
- This requires you to be bilingual in business/science and technology, enabling you to connect domain priorities with AI delivery teams.
- You will be responsible for owning the full lifecycle of AI solutions from ideation through delivery, adoption, and decommissioning and are accountable for driving real, sustained value and reuse.
Responsibilities
- Strategy and portfolio ownership of new AI Commercial programs for in partnership with the business teams.
- Single point of contact and responsible for engagement for AI Commercial capabilities programs for the Region, maintaining AI roadmaps aligned with business needs, developing business cases in partnership with the business, and promoting reuse principles.
- Translation of needs into AI use cases: Engaging with stakeholders to identify unmet needs and translating these into well defined AI use cases with clear metrics and requirements and a clear alignment with business strategy and AI30 focus areas.
- Delivery, scale, adoption and value tracking of AI initiatives: co leading solution delivery, overseeing lifecycle management including pilot shaping, deployment, adoption, and value realization, while ensuring appropriate evidence frameworks are applied.
- Change management and governance: Acting as change leaders embedding AI into operations, support AI literacy, and ensure data governance and compliance with standards and regulations, while collaborating with internal and external partners to drive commercial success at scale.
- Translating business needs into well scoped AI use cases and ensuring each solution delivers measurable business impact.
- Spot and shape new enterprise initiatives by scanning internal/external trends and partnering with functional leaders.
- Track industry, market and innovation shifts to anticipate opportunities and risks.
- Lead change through structured stakeholder engagement, aligning perspectives and guiding teams through uncertainty.
- Define KPIs and monitoring to evaluate progress and pivot when needed.
Essential for the Role
- Substantial proven experience leading transformation programs in commercial pharma.
- Demonstrated commercial and scientific domain experience reflecting a deep understanding of the needs of the business function and Region you are responsible for.
- Strong analytical and communication skills at all levels of the organization and the ability to operate successfully in highly matrixed organizations.
- Effective interpersonal and relationship management skills with consultative approach and ability to interact and build trust.
- Operational effectiveness, highly organized process with follow through.
- Strong initiative to understand our core business goals and establish processes or programs to set direction, generate alignment and push forward.
- Financial background and understanding of forecasts, budgets, financial activities and tools.
- Resourceful, motivated, influential and proactive; able to prioritize in a fast growing organization.
- Experience in strategic planning processes and tools and/or project management tools.
Desirable for the Role
- Graduate degree (MBA, Masters, MD or PhD preferred).
- Experience in leading and managing alliances or strategic partnerships.
- Ability to develop creative and simple solutions to complex problems.
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