AI Process Transformation Lead

AstraZeneca plc; Bogotá; On-site; COP 120,000,000 - 180,000,000; Full time

Job summary

AstraZeneca plc in Colombia invites an AI Process Transformation Lead to drive cross-enterprise process redesign leveraging AI, data, automation, and digital capabilities across the Andean Cluster. You will connect business priorities to scalable solutions, identify value opportunities, and oversee end-to-end transformations.

You will map journeys and data, lead pilots, and ensure adoption through change management, training, and governance while partnering with Legal, Compliance, Privacy,

Qualifications

• University degree in business, engineering, health sciences, design, technology, economics, marketing, or related discipline.
• Experience in innovation and business transformation.
• Experience leading portfolios, pilots, prototypes in matrix environments.
• Ability to translate ambiguous challenges into defined problems and metrics.
• Knowledge of design thinking, Lean Startup, Agile, and project management.
• Understanding of responsible AI, privacy, risk, traceability, and human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Translate business priorities into opportunities to transform processes, decisions, and experiences.
• Build and prioritize a portfolio of initiatives for value, feasibility, risk, compliance, scalability, and adoption.
• Map journeys, roles, decisions, data, controls, and pain points to simpler, more agile processes.
• Lead hypotheses, prototypes, pilots, and tests with real users; document learnings and decisions.
• Apply design thinking, Lean Startup, Agile, user research, and co-creation methodologies.
• Define adoption, communication, training, and change management strategies.
• Promote responsible AI with human oversight, privacy, security, and quality controls.
• Coordinate with Business, IT, Data & AI, Digital, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Cybersecurity, HR.
• Define criteria for scaling pilots for sustainability and cross-country reuse.

Skills

Executive storytelling

Cross-functional influence

Change management

Design thinking

Agile project management

Bilingual English/Spanish

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Health Sciences, Design, Technology, Economics, Marketing, or related field

Job description

Are you passionate about transforming the way organizations work through innovation, artificial intelligence, and process redesign? Do you have experience turning complex challenges into practical, scalable, and people-centered solutions?

At AstraZeneca, we are looking for an AI Process Transformation Lead to lead process, capability, and ways-of-working transformation initiatives across the Andean Cluster. This role will connect business priorities with solutions enabled by artificial intelligence, data, automation, and approved digital capabilities.

The role will be responsible for identifying value opportunities, challenging current operating models, leading end-to-end redesign, and ensuring that new capabilities are sustainably adopted by teams.

Main Responsibilities

• Translate business priorities into concrete opportunities to transform processes, decisions, and experiences.
• Build and prioritize a portfolio of initiatives, considering value, feasibility, risk, compliance, scalability, and adoption.
• Map journeys, roles, decisions, data, controls, and pain points to design simpler, more agile, and user-centered processes.
• Lead hypotheses, prototypes, pilots, and tests with real users, documenting learnings and making evidence-based decisions.
• Apply methodologies such as design thinking, Lean Startup, Agile, user research, and co-creation.
• Define adoption, communication, training, and change management strategies to embed new ways of working.
• Promote the responsible use of artificial intelligence, ensuring human oversight, traceability, privacy, security, quality, and compliance.
• Coordinate with Business, IT, Data & AI, Digital, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Cybersecurity, HR, and other relevant functions.
• Define criteria for scaling pilots, ensuring sustainability and promoting reusable solutions across functions or countries.

Key Requirements

• University degree in Business, Engineering, Health Sciences, Design, Technology, Economics, Marketing, or a related discipline.
• Experience in innovation, business transformation, process redesign, change management, digital solutions, or applied artificial intelligence.
• Experience leading portfolios, pilots, prototypes, and transformation projects in matrix environments.
• Ability to translate ambiguous challenges into clearly defined problems, hypotheses, value cases, requirements, and metrics.
• Practical knowledge of design thinking, Lean Startup, Agile, and project management.
• Understanding of responsible artificial intelligence, privacy, risk, traceability, and human oversight.
• Excellent communication, executive storytelling, and cross-functional influencing skills in Spanish and English.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, results orientation, learning agility, and a focus on simplification.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the pharmaceutical industry, life sciences, healthcare, or HealthTech ecosystems.
• Knowledge of process mining, service design, operating model design, Lean/Six Sigma, or business architecture.
• Experience as a business product owner for digital, data, automation, or AI products.
• Certification in Agile, Change Management, Lean/Six Sigma, Product Management, or a related discipline.
• Experience managing vendors, budgets, business cases, communities of practice, or upskilling programs.
• Postgraduate degree or MBA in Innovation, Transformation, Strategy, AI, Organizational Design, or a related field.

Date Posted

21-oct-2026

Closing Date

30-oct-2026

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.