Senior Strategy Architect — AI-Driven Product Transformation Lead

Cencora, Inc.; Darby (Delaware County); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Cencora, Inc. is seeking a senior technology leader to transform Enterprise Infrastructure & Cloud (EIC) into a product‑driven organization.

You will own budgeting, staffing, and delivery across a global team of 500+ employees and 300+ contractors, aligning to product roadmaps, governance, and regulatory requirements. This role partners with senior stakeholders to drive cost savings and strategic investments.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in technology, with deep functional expertise in infrastructure, cloud, or IT operations.
• Demonstrated ownership of a technology operating budget of $150M+.
• Demonstrated ownership of a technology supplier portfolio of $250M+ in annual spend.
• Experience managing a global workforce plan of 500+ employees plus a comparable contingent workforce across multiple countries and delivery models.
• Direct experience leading enterprise AI or automation adoption, including tooling selection, value measurement, and governance, preferred.
• Track record leading enterprise-scale transformation (product operating model, cloud migration, or comparable).
• Experience operating in a regulated environment, with familiarity with SOX, HIPAA and with GxP, DSCSA, or an equivalent regulatory framework, required.
• Experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical distribution, life sciences, or another highly regulated industry preferred; prior chief of staff, business operations, or strategy and planning leadership within a technology function preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the transition of the ~850-person EIC organization from a project- and ticket-based model to a product operating model spanning Network & Access, Digital Workplace, Cloud Platform Engineering, Private Hosting, IT Operations & ITSM, MA&D, and Architecture, advancing coverage from the current 60%+ baseline to full adoption in alignment with the GDATS maturity model.
• Defines and maintains the EIC product taxonomy, including product boundaries, product owner accountabilities, funding model, and operating cadence, and extends it to products jointly owned with Information Security and application organizations; partners with domain leaders to redesign roles, rituals, and decision rights.
• Owns the EIC global workforce plan of ~520 employees and ~325 contractors, including the position roster, approved headcount envelope, insource/outsource mix aligned to the defined Talent Strategy.
• Governs requisition approval, backfills, contractor‑to‑employee conversion, organizational design, and span‑of‑control discipline with HR and Finance; maintains a rolling view of skills supply and demand as the organization shifts from infrastructure operations to platform and software engineering; leads succession planning and talent review preparation for the EIC leadership team.
• Owns the EIC delivery portfolio end to end, including intake, prioritization, resourcing, dependency management, milestone tracking, and executive reporting, and runs the governance forums where portfolio trade-offs are made.
• Represents EIC in the enterprise technology investment prioritization process, where an ~$80M+ annual funding envelope is allocated against ~$135M+ of demand from six technology organizations; builds and maintains the EIC delivery dashboard, sustaining 90%+ of work visible in Jira or ServiceNow.
• Owns the ~$166M EIC operating and capital plan, including annual budget build, monthly forecast, variance analysis, accrual discipline, and year‑end landing, and ensures EIC financial controls withstand SOX audit and internal control review.
• Delivers committed savings targets and builds the business cases and investment narratives that secure funding for EIC's strategic agenda, translating infrastructure and cloud economics into unit cost, cost‑to‑serve, and run/grow/transform terms the business understands.
• Runs the enterprise hardware and software spend reduction program on behalf of the company: ~$400M of annual addressable spend, a 5‑10% reduction target over 24 months, seven workstreams, and cross‑functional leads from Enterprise Architecture, Finance/FP&A, Procurement, Software Asset Management, IT Finance, and Information Security.
• Owns the EIC renewal portfolio of ~$320M across ~835 agreements and ~273 publishers and OEMs through a rolling 18‑month renewal calendar; enforces the PADU disposition framework with Enterprise Architecture and reports savings on a Finance‑validated basis only.
• Establishes and runs the EIC vendor performance management framework, including scorecards, QBRs, service‑level accountability, and escalation paths, in partnership with Procurement, and drives supplier consolidation and standardization where it improves economics or outcomes.
• Runs the EIC leadership operating rhythm, including staff meetings, offsites, all‑hands, OKRs, and the annual planning calendar; prepares the SVP for executive and enterprise forums; owns EIC internal and executive communications; and coordinates audit, compliance, and regulatory responses on behalf of EIC.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Program management

Stakeholder management

Vendor management

Job description

Cencora, Inc. is seeking a senior technology leader to transform Enterprise Infrastructure & Cloud (EIC) into a product‑driven organization.

You will own budgeting, staffing, and delivery across a global team of 500+ employees and 300+ contractors, aligning to product roadmaps, governance, and regulatory requirements. This role partners with senior stakeholders to drive cost savings and strategic investments.