Corporate Head of AI

Neuraxpharm; Sant Joan Despí; Híbrido; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Neuraxpharm seeks a Corporate Head of AI to define and lead the company’s AI strategy with end-to-end ownership of AI-driven value across the organization.

You will drive AI use cases from idea to production, ensure data governance, and partner with IT to embed AI into core platforms while maintaining regulatory compliance.

Formación

• 8-10+ years in AI, analytics, or data-driven transformation roles.

Responsabilidades

• Drive AI adoption across the organization, prioritizing and delivering AI use cases with measurable business impact.
• Own end-to-end lifecycle of AI use cases from ideation to production and value realization.
• Identify, evaluate and prioritize AI opportunities across functions.
• Leverage external partnerships to accelerate AI capabilities.
• Orchestrate cross-functional teams to ensure AI initiatives are integrated into enterprise systems.
• Ensure AI solutions are scalable, reliable, and well-governed.
• Industrialize AI capabilities with MLOps practices and lifecycle management.
• Establish governance for AI usage aligned with policy and regulation.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies to maintain competitive advantage.
• Measure AI-driven value linking to revenue, costs, productivity.

Conocimientos

AI experience

Pharma/Life sciences

AI use cases delivery

ML & predictive analytics

MLOps

Cloud platforms

Data architecture

English fluency

Travel willingness

Educación

Math/Physics/Statistics/Economics/Engineering degree

Advanced AI/Data Science degree valued

Herramientas

GenAI exposure

Descripción del empleo

WE ARE HIRING!

Corporate Head of AI

Neuraxpharm is looking for people who want to make a difference and improve patients' lives within the CNS area. We want individuals who will go the extra mile and make great things happen.

Being part of this team does not mean you are just working for a company, but for a cause!

Neuraxpharm is looking for a Corporate Head of AI based in Barcelona

(hybrid role)

Your Mission

Define and lead the company’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and corporate priorities, and taking end-to-end ownership of AI-driven value creation across the organization.

Drive the identification, prioritization, orchestration, and delivery of AI use cases, ensuring their successful deployment into production and their measurable impact on business performance.

Leverage the corporate data architecture and governance framework to enable scalable and sustainable AI and advanced analytics initiatives, ensuring that data availability, quality, and consistency support industrialized AI adoption.

Enable AI use consistently across the pharmaceutical value chain, from R&D and regulatory to manufacturing, medical, and commercial, ensuring strict adherence to GxP standards, data integrity principles, and evolving regulatory requirements.

Promote a culture of innovation, data-driven decision-making, and operational excellence, positioning AI as a key enabler of digital transformation and long-term competitive advantage.

Your Major Accountabilities

• Accelerate AI adoption across the organization by actively driving the understanding, implementation, and scaling of AI use cases, ensuring business teams effectively leverage AI capabilities to generate measurable value.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of AI use cases, from ideation and prioritization to development, deployment, and value realization in production environments.
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize AI opportunities across all business functions, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and focusing on initiatives with measurable business impact.
• Leverage external partnerships (technology providers, startups, academic institutions) to accelerate AI capabilities and access best-class solutions
• Orchestrate cross-functional teams to ensure successful execution of AI initiatives, acting as the central point of accountability for delivery. Partner closely with IT and digital transformation functions to ensure AI solutions are fully integrated into enterprise systems, scalable infrastructure, and core digital platforms.
• Ensure that AI solutions are scalable, reliable, and integrated into existing business processes and systems, supporting long-term adoption and sustainability.
• Drive the industrialization of AI capabilities, including the implementation of best practices for model development, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management (MLOps - Machine Learning Operations).
• Establish governance and controls for AI usage, ensuring compliance with internal policies, ethical standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Continuously evaluate emerging AI technologies and trends, identifying opportunities to enhance business performance and maintain competitive advantage.
• Own the measurement and tracking of AI-driven value, ensuring clear linkage between AI initiatives and financial and operational performance (e.g., revenue growth, cost efficiencies, productivity gains).

We Would Like You To Have

• 8-10+ years of experience in Artificial Intelligence (AI), advanced analytics, or data-driven transformation roles, with proven experience delivering AI solutions in business environments.
• Strong experience in the pharmaceutical or life sciences industry, with understanding of the end-to-end value chain (R&D, clinical development, regulatory affairs, pharmacovigilance, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and commercial operations).
• Strong track record in defining, prioritizing, and delivering AI use cases from concept to production, including measurable business impact.
• Solid understanding of machine learning (ML - Machine Learning), predictive analytics, statistical modeling techniques and AI applications in pharma.
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams and operating in complex organizational environments, combining business, data, and technology perspectives.
• Familiarity with modern AI technologies and platforms, including exposure to Generative AI (GenAI - Generative Artificial Intelligence) capabilities and their application in business contexts.
• Experience working with MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) practices, ensuring scalability, monitoring, and lifecycle management of AI models in production.
• Hands-on familiarity with modern data and AI technology stacks, including Cloud platforms, Data platforms, ML frameworks, Data engineering tools
• Experience with enterprise AI and analytics/BI platforms
• Knowledge of pharma-specific systems and data environments is highly valuable
• Degree in Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, or a related quantitative or analytical discipline.
• Advanced degrees or postgraduate studies in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Business Analytics, or similar fields are highly valued.
• Language: Fluent English is a must and Spanish/ German desirable
• Occasional Travel availability

About Us

Neuraxpharm is a leading European specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of the central nervous system (CNS), including both psychiatric and neurological disorders. It has a unique understanding of the CNS market built over 40 years.

Neuraxpharm is constantly innovating, with new products and solutions to address unmet patient needs and is expanding its portfolio through its pipeline and acquisitions.

The company has c. 1,000 employees and develops and commercializes CNS products through a direct presence in more than 20 countries in Europe, two in Latin America, one in the Middle East, one in Australia, and globally via partners in more than 50 countries. Neuraxpharm is backed by funds advised by Permira.

Neuraxpharm manufactures many of its pharmaceutical products at Neuraxpharm Pharmaceuticals (formerly Laboratories Lesvi) in Spain.

Be part of the team where you can count on us to deliver:

• Individual Professional development in a leading European pharmaceutical company with an ambitious international growth strategy.
• Attractive remuneration according to the experience and skills provided.
• An inspiring leadership team that drives performance.
• An inclusive culture promoting diversity across the teams that will inspire you every day with a passionate, a dynamic, a result focused and an expert&excellent team!

Interested in knowing more?

Have a look at what Neuraxpharm culture represents and what makes us a great place to work: www.neuraxpharm.com

If you want to join us, this is your opportunity!

WE COUNT ON YOU, YOU COUNT ON US

At Neuraxpharm's we ensure an inclusive, diverse, safe and respectful work environment for everyone in its organization. As we care for our people as much as we do for our patients, we are committed to guaranteeing a healthy, inclusive and equal opportunity workplace that enables employees to develop their professional potential, while ensuring their individual and collective satisfaction.

We are guided by a Diversity & Inclusion policy to ensure a business culture based on the principles of diversity, equality and inclusion. Our policy complies with European legal regulations and includes the necessary standards, processes and measures to be taken in the event of discrimination or harassment against any employee of the company.

We embrace and promote different cultures, gender identities, seniorities, ages and mindsets within the workplace, to bring different perspectives, styles and experiences to our business.