Senior Director, AI Commercial Business Partner - International
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About the Role
AstraZeneca is seeking a Senior Director, AI Commercial Business Partner to lead AI strategy and programs for the International region. This role involves translating business needs into AI use cases, driving adoption, and managing the full lifecycle of AI solutions.
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Responsibilities
- Serve as single point of contact for AI Commercial capabilities programs 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.
- Lead change through structured stakeholder engagement, aligning perspectives and guiding teams through uncertainty.
- 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 reflecting deep understanding of the business function and Region
- Strong analytical and communication skills at all levels of the organization
- Effective interpersonal and relationship management skills with consultative approach
- Operational effectiveness and highly organized process with follow through
- Strong initiative to understand core business goals and establish processes
- 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
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About AstraZeneca
- AstraZeneca is a global pharmaceutical company with a groundbreaking pipeline.
- The AI Commercial team is part of the Enterprise AI team, delivering AI strategy and commercial programs.
The Role
- Senior Director, AI Commercial Business Partner International.
- AI Commercial Business Leaders are embedded translators between business functions and AI Commercial organization.
- Responsible for success of AI programs, driving translation, adoption, and lifecycle management.
Responsibilities Include
- Strategy and portfolio ownership of new AI Commercial programs.
- Single point of contact for AI Commercial capabilities programs for the Region.
- Translation of needs into AI use cases.
- Delivery, scale, adoption and value tracking of AI initiatives.
- Change management and governance.
- Spot and shape new enterprise initiatives.
- Track industry, market and innovation shifts.
- Lead change through structured stakeholder engagement.
- Define KPIs and monitoring.
Typical Accountabilities Include
- AI Strategy and portfolio ownership: Serve as single business owner, maintain AI roadmap, develop business cases, embed reuse principles.
- Translation of needs into AI use cases: Engage business leaders, translate needs into well scoped use cases, act as bilingual translator.
- Delivery, scale, adoption and value tracking: Co lead delivery, own full AI Program lifecycle, ensure evidence frameworks.
- Change management and ways of working: Act as change leaders, embed new practices, support AI literacy.
- Data, governance and compliance point of contact: Partner to ensure data is AI ready and compliant, ensure governance framework.
- Deliver Partnership and ecosystem: Co develop AI programs, develop delivery relationships, build culture of coordinated delivery.
- Integration with enterprise AI organization: Act as primary interface between business area and CAI Capability teams.
Essential for the Role
- Substantial proven experience leading transformation programs in commercial pharma.
- Demonstrated commercial and scientific domain experience.
- Strong analytical and communication skills.
- Effective interpersonal and relationship management skills.
- Operational effectiveness and highly organized process.
- Strong initiative to understand core business goals.
- Financial background and understanding of forecasts, budgets, financial activities and tools.
- Resourceful, motivated, influential and proactive.
- Experience in strategic planning processes and tools.
Desirable for the Role
- Graduate degree (MBA, Masters, MD or PhD preferred).
- Experience in leading and managing alliances or strategic partnerships.
- Experience in translating business needs into coordinated business proposal.
- Ability to develop creative and simple solutions to complex problems.
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