Director of AI Strategy & Transformation (Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401k savings plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Cardinal Health, Inc. is seeking a Director of AI Strategy & Business Transformation to guide AI initiatives across healthcare services. You will translate priorities into programs, build a high-performing team, and partner with Operations, IT, and Commercial teams to deliver measurable value.

Located in Dallas or able to travel; this role combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution to improve productivity, patient experience, and client value in a complex, regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience leading complex business transformation, digital modernization, automation, and AI-enabled initiatives within healthcare organizations.
• Proven 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.

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

Executive leadership

Change management

Cross-functional leadership

Financial acumen

Healthcare industry knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience

Tools

AI platforms

Data governance

Job description

Cardinal Health, Inc. is seeking a Director of AI Strategy & Business Transformation to guide AI initiatives across healthcare services. You will translate priorities into programs, build a high-performing team, and partner with Operations, IT, and Commercial teams to deliver measurable value.

Located in Dallas or able to travel; this role combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution to improve productivity, patient experience, and client value in a complex, regulated environment.