Senior Director, AI to Transform Care Partner, International

Role Overview

The International region is AstraZeneca’s largest, most diverse, and fastest-growing region, representing around one-third of total company revenue. The role will translate business, medical, and market access priorities into AI-powered care pathway transformation programs, delivering measurable improvements in patient identification, diagnosis, treatment selection, and continuous patient monitoring.

What You Will Do

Translate unmet needs into actionable AI roadmaps and prioritized use cases, ensure alignment with Commercial, Medical, R&D and Market Access priorities, and coordinate cross-functional alignment to select priority pathways where digital and AI can improve patient identification, guideline-adherent care, and outcomes at scale.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The role requires a senior leader with subject-matter expertise in Sales and Marketing, AI, Digital, and Innovation, experience in ecosystem building, digital health, and healthcare system partnerships, and highly developed communication and influencing abilities across organizational teams and levels in a large and matrixed operating environment.

Requirements

• Subject-matter expertise in Sales and Marketing, AI, Digital, and Innovation
• Experience in ecosystem building, digital health, and healthcare system partnerships
• Understanding of the dynamic external environment including new innovative digital technology
• Highly developed communication and influencing abilities across organizational teams and levels in a large and matrixed operating environment
• Proven business partnering skills across multiple stakeholder groups
• Proven project management skills in matrix organizations
• Experience of working with Senior Management Teams with good understanding of decision-making dynamics
• Evidence of the ability to pull together diverse teams over whom they have no line management responsibility
• Experience of successful influencing cross functionally, cross-culturally and cross-TA
• Evidence of strong independence and innovative seeker of strategic solutions; a strongly conceptual thinker
• Curiosity and capability to understand and support business need from different business areas
• Pragmatism and can-do attitude
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership
• Influence without authority across highly matrixed teams
• Build and mentor a high-performing AI / Digital network
• Act as a talent magnet in AI & digital health
• Experience scaling AI solutions in real healthcare settings (not only pilots)
• Strong understanding of healthcare systems and market access dynamics
• Experience with EMR integration / digital health deployment

Benefits

• Shape the future of healthcare at scale
• Combine cutting-edge science with powerful data assets, strong local insight and a culture that encourages curiosity, collaboration and continuous learning
• Tackle complex challenges with the freedom to innovate
• Partner across borders and disciplines to deliver transformative solutions that help patients live longer and better lives while contributing to a broader societal impact