Director of AI Strategy & Transformation (Remote)

Cardinal Health, Inc.; Santa Fe (NM); Remote; USD 118,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Cardinal Health is seeking a Director of AI Strategy & Business Transformation to lead AI-driven initiatives across the organization. The role partners with Operations, IT, Product & Delivery, Advanced Analytics, PMO, and enterprise COE to translate business needs into scalable AI solutions.

The position emphasizes change management, leadership, and program oversight, with travel to Dallas as needed and a salary range disclosed in the posting.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex business transformation and AI-enabled initiatives within healthcare.
• Proven ability to move initiatives from strategy and business case through implementation, adoption, value realization, and scale.
• Experience leading teams in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including developing business cases, prioritizing investments, and measuring ROI.
• Strong executive communication, presentation, facilitation, and relationship-management skills.
• Dallas, Texas-based preferred; candidates outside the area must be able to travel approximately twice monthly.

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

Executive communication

Influence senior leaders

Change management

Team leadership

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Healthcare domain knowledge

AI transformation

Program management

Relationship management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience

Certifications in AI transformation, program management, agile delivery, digital transformation, or change management

Job description

Cardinal Health is seeking a Director of AI Strategy & Business Transformation to lead AI-driven initiatives across the organization. The role partners with Operations, IT, Product & Delivery, Advanced Analytics, PMO, and enterprise COE to translate business needs into scalable AI solutions.

The position emphasizes change management, leadership, and program oversight, with travel to Dallas as needed and a salary range disclosed in the posting.