Senior Director, AI Commercial Business Partner - International
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About the Role
AstraZeneca is seeking a Senior Director, AI Commercial Business Partner for the International region based in Dubai. You will lead AI strategy, translate business needs into AI use cases, and drive adoption of AI solutions across commercial teams.
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Responsibilities
- Serve as the single business owner for AI solutions in their therapy area, market, or function
- Maintain and sequence a clear AI roadmap aligned to business, medical, access, and R&D priorities
- Develop business cases and value narratives to support prioritization decisions
- Engage business leaders and cross functional teams to surface unmet needs and decision points where AI can drive new outcomes
- Translate needs into well scoped AI use cases with clear problem statements, success metrics, data requirements, and risk tiering
- Co lead delivery with enterprise AI teams to ensure solutions fit real workflows and local systems
- Own the full AI Program lifecycle including pilot shaping, scaled deployment, local adoption, tracking of adoption KPIs, outcome and ROI realization, and remediation or decommissioning
- Act as change leaders for AI, embedding new practices into day to day operations
- Partner with Enterprise Demand Excellence and AITT to ensure data used in solutions is AI ready and compliant with enterprise standards
- Ensure each AI use case follows the enterprise governance framework including registry before scale, model and data cards, ongoing monitoring, and human in the loop oversight
Requirements
- 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
- Strong analytical and communication skills at all levels of the organization and ability to operate successfully in highly matrixed organizations
- Effective interpersonal and relationship management skills with consultative approach
- Operational effectiveness, highly organized process with follow through
- Strong initiative to understand core business goals and establish processes or programs
- 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
- At AstraZeneca, we are proud of our ground breaking pipeline and continue to look for new ways to bring the best medicines to patients.
- The AI Commercial team is part of the newly founded Enterprise AI team (EAI), delivering AI strategy and coordinated commercial progress and programs.
What you’ll do
- AI Commercial Business Leaders are the embedded translators between business functions and the AI Commercial organization.
- Key deliverables include translating business needs into well scoped AI use cases and ensuring each solution delivers measurable business impact.
- You will be responsible for building the bridge between business teams at a Region and Market level, and technical experts within the AIC and EAI function.
- 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.
- Translation of needs into AI use cases: Engaging with stakeholders to identify unmet needs and translating these into well defined AI use cases.
- Delivery, scale, adoption and value tracking of AI initiatives: co leading solution delivery, overseeing lifecycle management.
- Change management and governance: Acting as change leaders embedding AI into operations.
- Spot and shape new enterprise initiatives by scanning internal/external trends.
- Track industry, market and innovation shifts to anticipate opportunities and risks.
- Lead change through structured stakeholder engagement.
- 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.
- Strong analytical and communication skills at all levels of the organization.
- Effective interpersonal and relationship management skills.
- Operational effectiveness, highly organized process with follow through.
- Strong initiative to understand our 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 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.
- Experience in translating business needs into a coordinated business proposal and plan.
- Ability to develop creative and simple solutions to complex problems.
Work Location and Flexibility
- In person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office.
- We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility.
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