Strategic AI & Automation Partner

Acentra; Cary (NC); On-site; USD 101,000 - 126,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Paid time off

Retirement savings plan

Job summary

Acentra Health is seeking an AI Business Partner, Mid, to join our growing team in the US. You will act as a strategic liaison between the AI & Automation Center of Excellence and corporate functions, translating AI opportunities into actionable programs that elevate operational performance, productivity, and user experience.

In this role you will collaborate with Finance, Strategy, HR, IT, and Legal teams to shape business cases, prioritize opportunities, and coordinate with product,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in healthcare technology, healthcare operations, product management, business analysis, consulting, transformation, or a related business-facing role.
• Working knowledge of corporate workflows and internal services, preferably supporting Finance, Strategy, HR, Growth, IT, Learning & Development, or Legal & Compliance.
• Foundational understanding of AI, generative AI, automation, data analytics, and emerging technology concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with business leaders to identify operational challenges, frame opportunities, and translate needs into structured requirements or solution concepts.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience supporting business case development, initiative prioritization, process improvement, or technology-enabled transformation efforts.

Responsibilities

• Partner with corporate function leaders to identify, assess, and prioritize AI opportunities across key business workflows and internal services.
• Facilitate discovery conversations and ideation sessions that help corporate teams explore the “art of the possible” with AI, including workflow automation, decision support, knowledge retrieval, document intelligence, employee self-service and user assistance.
• Translate business needs, pain points, and operational goals into well-defined AI opportunity statements, use case summaries, business value hypotheses, and initial solution concepts.
• Serve as a bridge between business stakeholders, product teams, transformation partners, change management, data teams, and AI engineering resources to support alignment from ideation through delivery planning.
• Help evaluate feasibility, value, risk, data readiness, workflow impact, and stakeholder adoption considerations for proposed AI initiatives.
• Support development of business cases, intake materials, prioritization recommendations, and executive-level summaries for AI opportunities across corporate functions.
• Promote responsible AI practices by helping business teams understand appropriate AI use, human oversight needs, data sensitivity, privacy considerations, and operational risk factors.
• Track AI opportunity progress, stakeholder feedback, adoption themes, and realized or anticipated business impact to support ongoing portfolio management and continuous improvement.

Skills

AI fluency

Stakeholder management

Business analysis

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or related field

Job description

Acentra Health is seeking an AI Business Partner, Mid, to join our growing team in the US. You will act as a strategic liaison between the AI & Automation Center of Excellence and corporate functions, translating AI opportunities into actionable programs that elevate operational performance, productivity, and user experience.

In this role you will collaborate with Finance, Strategy, HR, IT, and Legal teams to shape business cases, prioritize opportunities, and coordinate with product,