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Senior Director, AI Commercial Business Partner - Europe & Canada
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Role: Senior Director, AI Commercial Business Partner - Europe & Canada
Location: Cambridge, UK or Barcelona, Spain
Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits
Do you have an organizational mindset and -can-do attitude that enables you to deliver positive outcomes on high impact and complex AI projects? Are you looking to join a growing team that will design and deliver value-driven change to an organization, do you relish the opportunity to drive wide scale commercial innovation across teams and lead the AI revolution in commercial for AstraZeneca.
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. We are building and fostering high-performing collaborative teams across the organization to help us deliver on our ambition. There’s no better time to join our global, growing enterprise as we lead the way for patients, healthcare and broader society.
AI Commercial Team (AIC)
The AI Commercial team, is part of the newly founded Enterprise AI team (EAI), delivering AI strategy and coordinated commercial progress and programs, in close collaboration with our business teams, and in partnership with our enterprise teams. We lead cross-functional and commercial-wide initiatives to deliver transformative commercial value and ensure we are at our best in delivering lifesaving medicines to patients.
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.
In this role, 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 as well as key other Enterprise technology teams such as Commercial IT and Global Business Services. As part of this role, you will champion the key commercial AI programs in service of enhancing customer engagement, powered by actionable AI insights, delivered thought agentic platforms. In addition, you will partner on the delivery of AI capability building programs.
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To do this successfully, you will share geographic location with the respective Region team, have a seat at the Senior leader table for the Region, with connection further enhanced through dotted line reporting to the Region, while sitting on the AIC Leadership team reporting to VP AIC.
Oncology Business Unit (OBU)
OBU is responsible for the commercialisation of medicines across some of the most hard-to-treat forms of disease, including: lung, breast, gastrointestinal, gynaecological, genitourinary and haematology cancers.
Responsibilities
- Strategy and portfolio ownership: New AI Commercial programs in partnership with business teams.
- Single point of contact: 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: 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.
Typical Accountabilities
- AI Strategy and portfolio ownership: Serve as the single business owner for AI solutions in their therapy area, market, or function.
- Translation of needs into AI use cases: Engage business leaders and cross-functional teams to surface unmet needs and decision points where AI can drive new outcomes.
- Delivery, scale, adoption, and value tracking: Co-lead delivery with enterprise AI teams to ensure solutions fit real workflows and local systems.
- Change management and ways of working: Act as change leaders for AI, embedding new practices into day-to-day operations – avoiding one-off pilots that don’t inform or lead to a scaled solution.
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.
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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 for cross-functional senior leadership team.
- Ability to develop creative and simple solutions to complex problems.
Next Steps?
Are you ready to step up and take ownership of your work, solutions for the business and your personal career development? Apply now and join us in our mission to bring life-changing medicines to people!
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When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. 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. But that doesn't mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.
Date Posted: 02-Oct-2026
Closing Date: 09-Oct-2026
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