Senior Director, AI-Driven Enterprise Transformation

AstraZeneca GmbH; Gaithersburg (MD); On-site; USD 160,000 - 266,000; Full time

Job summary

AstraZeneca GmbH is seeking a Senior Director to lead the AI Enterprise Process & Innovation Center, driving end-to-end process reinvention and embedding AI-enabled decision-making across the company. You will partner with senior leaders to operationalize AI, automation, and analytics at scale.

You will oversee cross-functional initiatives to redesign key processes, improve speed, quality, and cost, and ensure governance and compliance in regulated environments.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in scientific or business field (or equivalent).
• 10+ years in enterprise transformation, process innovation, digital/AI strategy, or consulting in regulated sectors.
• Proven experience delivering AI-enabled process transformation and value at scale.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and senior partner management.
• Deep understanding of AI, analytics, automation, and digital platforms.
• Governance and compliance fluency, including GxP, validation, privacy.

Responsibilities

• Redesign critical end-to-end enterprise processes for AI-driven, decision-centric models that improve cycle time, quality, and cost.
• Diagnose structural bottlenecks and embed intelligence into core workflows to improve decision speed and consistency.
• Integrate across business, technology, data, and change functions to scale AI use cases from pilots to enterprise adoption.
• Advise senior leaders on AI applicability and partner with Finance to quantify and track value realization.
• Ensure scalable, compliant solutions through partnership with Enterprise AI, IT, Data, Risk, Quality, and Legal/Compliance.
• Lead adoption of new ways of working and build communities of practice in process innovation to sustain change.
• Deliver measurable improvements through sophisticated AI-enabled Business Improvement initiatives, growing impact across the enterprise over time.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Senior partner management

AI analytics

Governance & compliance

GenAI/LLMs familiarity

Regulatory AI knowledge

AI risk & fairness

Education

Master’s degree in scientific or business field

PhD or equivalent experience

Job description

AstraZeneca GmbH is seeking a Senior Director to lead the AI Enterprise Process & Innovation Center, driving end-to-end process reinvention and embedding AI-enabled decision-making across the company. You will partner with senior leaders to operationalize AI, automation, and analytics at scale.

You will oversee cross-functional initiatives to redesign key processes, improve speed, quality, and cost, and ensure governance and compliance in regulated environments.