Director, AI Strategy & Transformation — Remote Impact

Cardinal Health, Inc.; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 118,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

401k savings plan

Paid time off

Health savings account

Parental leave

Flexible spending accounts

Disability coverage

Job summary

Cardinal Health, Inc. is seeking a Director of AI Strategy & Business Transformation to drive AI initiatives and organizational change across the healthcare division. This role leads a high-performing team, shaping strategy, governance, and execution to improve growth, productivity, quality, and patient access.

The position reports to the VP/GM, partners with Operations, IT, Product & Delivery, Advanced Analytics, PMO and COE, and travels as needed to Dallas. Remote work is national.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience preferred.
• Experience leading complex business transformation, digital modernization, automation, 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 organizational change associated with technology-enabled transformation.
• Strong executive communication, presentation, facilitation, and relationship-management skills.

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 transformation

Change management

Executive communication

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial acumen

Influence senior leaders

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Cardinal Health, Inc. is seeking a Director of AI Strategy & Business Transformation to drive AI initiatives and organizational change across the healthcare division. This role leads a high-performing team, shaping strategy, governance, and execution to improve growth, productivity, quality, and patient access.

The position reports to the VP/GM, partners with Operations, IT, Product & Delivery, Advanced Analytics, PMO and COE, and travels as needed to Dallas. Remote work is national.