Director, AI Strategy & Transformation — Remote

Cardinal Health, Inc.; Salem (OR); À distance; USD 118 000 - 200 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Paid time off plan

Health savings account (HSA)

401k savings plan

Access to wages before pay day with my

Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

Disability coverage

Work-Life resources

Paid parental leave

Healthy lifestyle programs

Résumé du poste

Cardinal Health, Inc. is seeking a Director of AI Strategy & Business Transformation to turn AI and transformation strategy into measurable results.

This leader will own the AI roadmap, translate priorities into solutions, and drive adoption across Operations, IT, Product & Delivery, Analytics, and PMO. The role supervises a high-performing team, collaborates with enterprise COE, and partners with senior leadership to realize value in growth, quality, and patient access.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex business transformation and AI-enabled initiatives within healthcare organizations, ideally across patient services, pharmaceutical manufacturing, specialty pharmacy, or PBM environments.
• Demonstrated ability to move initiatives from strategy and business case through implementation, adoption, value realization, and scale.
• Experience leading and developing teams in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including developing business cases, prioritizing investments, and measuring ROI.
• Technical fluency across AI, automation, data, analytics, and digital platforms, with the ability to effectively bridge business and technology teams.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders, lead cross-functional teams, navigate ambiguity, and drive decisions across organizational boundaries.
• Experience leading organizational change associated with technology-enabled transformation.
• Dallas, Texas-based preferred; travel approximately twice monthly.

Responsabilités

• 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.

Connaissances

AI strategy

Transformation leadership

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Team leadership

Change management

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial acumen

Healthcare industry experience

Program management

Formation

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Description du poste

Cardinal Health, Inc. is seeking a Director of AI Strategy & Business Transformation to turn AI and transformation strategy into measurable results.

This leader will own the AI roadmap, translate priorities into solutions, and drive adoption across Operations, IT, Product & Delivery, Analytics, and PMO. The role supervises a high-performing team, collaborates with enterprise COE, and partners with senior leadership to realize value in growth, quality, and patient access.