Director, AI Strategy & Transformation — Remote

Cardinal Health, Inc.; Dover (DE); Remote; USD 118,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work flexibility

Job summary

Cardinal Health, Inc. seeks a Director of AI Strategy & Business Transformation to drive AI initiatives from concept through scale. You will lead a high-performing team, partner with Operations, IT, and Analytics, and translate business priorities into actionable AI-driven programs in healthcare settings.

The role requires building business cases, governance, and change-management strategies to improve productivity, quality, and patient access. Travel to Dallas area preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience preferred.
• Experience leading complex business transformation, digital modernization, automation, and AI-enabled initiatives within healthcare organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to move initiatives from strategy through implementation, adoption, value realisation, and scale.
• Experience leading and developing teams in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including ROI measurement.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive execution of the AI and business transformation roadmap, aligning priorities with business strategy, operational needs, client opportunities, and enterprise direction
• Identify and prioritize AI, automation, digital, data, and technology-enabled opportunities based on business value, feasibility, scalability, and strategic alignment
• Develop business cases, investment recommendations, success measures, and governance for priority transformation initiatives
• Lead high-priority initiatives from concept through implementation, adoption, value realization, and scale.
• Partner closely with Operations, IT, Product & Delivery, Advanced Analytics, PMO and enterprise COE teams to translate business needs into scalable solutions
• Actively engage in solution design and execution as needed, working across functional boundaries to resolve dependencies, challenge constraints, and maintain momentum
• Ensure transformation initiatives deliver measurable business outcomes, including productivity, quality, capacity, growth, employee experience, client value, and patient experience
• Lead change-management strategies that address leadership alignment, communications, training, workflow redesign, adoption, and sustainability
• Build AI fluency and transformation capabilities across the organization, helping leaders and teams adopt new technologies and ways of working
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team, establishing clear priorities, accountabilities, and measures of success
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and represent Sonexus™ Access and Patient Support in appropriate Cardinal Health AI, innovation, and transformation forums
• Support client-facing strategy and solution discussions where AI and transformation capabilities can strengthen the client value proposition.

Skills

AI strategy

Change management

Executive communication

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial ROI mindset

Healthcare industry knowledge

Strategic thinking

Project management

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience preferred

Job description

Cardinal Health, Inc. seeks a Director of AI Strategy & Business Transformation to drive AI initiatives from concept through scale. You will lead a high-performing team, partner with Operations, IT, and Analytics, and translate business priorities into actionable AI-driven programs in healthcare settings.

The role requires building business cases, governance, and change-management strategies to improve productivity, quality, and patient access. Travel to Dallas area preferred.