Senior Director, Ai Commercial Business Partner - Europe & Canada in Cambourne

Location: Cambridge UK or Barcelona Spain

Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits

Do you have an organizational mindset and can-do attitude that enables you to deliver positive outcomes on high impact and complex AI projects? Are you looking to join a growing team that will design and deliver value-driven change to an organization? Do you relish the opportunity to drive wide scale commercial innovation across teams and lead the AI revolution in commercial for AstraZeneca?

About AstraZeneca: At AstraZeneca, we are proud of our ground-breaking pipeline and continue to look for new ways to bring the best medicines to patients. We are building and fostering high-performing collaborative teams across the organization to help us deliver on our ambition. There’s no better time to join our global, growing enterprise as we lead the way for patients, healthcare and broader society.

The AI Commercial team is part of the newly founded Enterprise AI team, delivering AI strategy and coordinated commercial progress and programs, in close collaboration with our business teams, and in partnership with our enterprise teams. We lead cross-functional and commercial-wide initiatives to deliver transformative commercial value and ensure we are at our best in delivering lifesaving medicines to patients.

What you’ll do:

• AI Commercial Business Leaders are the embedded “translators” between business functions and the AI Commercial organization, responsible for the success of AI programs.
• The role is strategically positioned in therapy areas, markets, and functions with the objectives to drive translation, adoption, and lifecycle management of AI solutions in the business.
• Key deliverables include translating business needs into well-scoped AI use cases and ensuring each solution delivers measurable business impact.
• This requires you to be bilingual in business/science and technology, enabling you to connect domain priorities with AI delivery teams.
• You will be responsible for owning the full lifecycle of AI solutions - from ideation through delivery, adoption, and decommissioning - and are accountable for driving real, sustained value and reuse.
• In this role, you will be responsible for building the bridge between business teams at a Region and Market level, and technical experts within the AIC and EAI function as well as key other Enterprise technology teams such as Commercial IT and Global Business Services.
• As part of this role, you will champion the key commercial AI programs in service of enhancing customer engagement, powered by actionable AI insights, delivered through agentic platforms.
• In addition, you will partner on the delivery of AI capability building programs.
• To do this successfully, you will share geographic location with the respective Region team, have a seat at the Senior leader table for the Region, with connection further enhanced through dotted line reporting to the Region, while sitting on the AIC Leadership team reporting to VP AIC.

The Oncology Business Unit (OBU) is responsible for the commercialisation of medicines across some of the most hard-to-treat forms of disease, including lung, breast, gastrointestinal, gynaecological, genitourinary and haematology cancers.

Responsibilities include:

• Strategy and portfolio ownership of new AI Commercial programs in partnership with the business teams.
• Single point of contact and responsible for engagement for AI Commercial capabilities programs for the Region, maintaining AI roadmaps aligned with business needs, developing business cases in partnership with the business, and promoting reuse principles.
• Translation of needs into AI use cases: Engaging with stakeholders to identify unmet needs and translating these into well-defined AI use cases with clear metrics and requirements and a clear alignment with business strategy and AI focus areas.
• Delivery, scale, adoption and value tracking of AI initiatives: co-leading solution delivery, overseeing lifecycle management including pilot shaping, deployment, adoption, and value realization, while ensuring appropriate evidence frameworks are applied.
• Change management and governance: Acting as change leaders embedding AI into operations, supporting AI literacy, and ensuring data governance and compliance with standards and regulations, while collaborating with internal and external partners to drive commercial success at scale.
• Spot and shape new enterprise initiatives by scanning internal/external trends and partnering with functional leaders.
• Track industry, market and innovation shifts to anticipate opportunities and risks.
• Lead change through structured stakeholder engagement, aligning perspectives and guiding teams through uncertainty.
• Define KPIs and monitoring to evaluate progress and pivot when needed.

Typical Accountabilities include:

• AI Strategy and portfolio ownership: Serve as the single business owner for AI solutions in their therapy area, market, or function.
• Maintain and sequence a clear AI roadmap aligned to business, medical, access, and R&D priorities.
• Develop business cases and value narratives to support prioritization and reuse principles when defining and shaping demand.
• Engage business leaders and cross-functional teams to surface unmet needs and decision points where AI can drive new outcomes.
• Translate needs into well-scoped AI use cases with clear problem statements, success metrics, data requirements, and risk as bilingual translators connecting business priorities, scientific context, and technology capabilities.
• Co-lead delivery with enterprise AI teams to ensure solutions fit real workflows and local the full AI Program lifecycle, including pilot shaping, scaled deployment, local adoption and change readiness, tracking of adoption KPIs, outcome and ROI realization, remediation or decommissioning when needed.
• Ensure correct evidence frameworks are applied to measure value.