Ai Capability Lead

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa AstraZeneca Full time

**Artificial Intelligence Capability Lead**

**Location: Cambridge, Bangalore, Singapore, Mexico City, Istanbul, Sydney, Zurich, Johannesburg, Sao Paulo**

**About AstraZeneca**

AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven BioPharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca, we're dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development. We are looking to appoint an Artificial Intelligence Lead accountable for partnering with the Region, Area and Market level Commercial and Medical teams for creating, driving adoption of, and delivering value from AI-powered capabilities. International Commercial consists of markets in Asia, MEA, LATAM, Australia, New Zealand, and Russia with a revenue of close to USD 7bn. International is a dynamic, collaborative and fast-growing business.

**About Our Team**

At AstraZeneca, our IT organisation is pushing the boundaries of technology to enable the digitisation and transformation of the business. In Commercial IT, we are focussed on smoothing the Patient and HCP journey through Digital Innovation and supporting the growth of the business through impactful launches, field effectiveness and digital/omnichannel capabilities - all founded on deep partnerships with our business colleagues. Our internal capabilities are predominantly created and delivered by our global IT organisations and are cloud-based and mobile-enabled - this includes Infrastructure.

**About The Role?**

**Essential Skills**
- Experience working in the pharmaceutical industry with data or AI-related background
- Demonstrated ability on the project in one or more of the following areas: classical machine learning, recommendation systems, natural language processing or computer vision.
- Been involved in AI projects from conceptualisation to proof of concept to pilot/go-to-market to scaling.
- Experience running enterprise technology projects, including engagement with technical and non-technical collaborators
- You will analyse business priorities & strategies and translate these into architecture requirements for the enterprise and act as an authority to the architecture community and the business regarding strategic architecture decisions for the relevant architecture segment
- You will need great interpersonal skills and a collaborative, enthusiastic approach to delivery
- Demonstrable experience in optimally deploying and scaling AI solutions in an enterprise or healthcare setting
- Communication and influencing across a very broad base of cultures (Asia, LATAM, Western etc) and to senior levels
- Experience in a similar role with a consistent track record

**Desirable Skills**
- A leader within Pharma thought leadership networks and organisations
- Experience in leading teams with a demonstrable track record of motivational and achievement-oriented leadership
- Extensive experience in developing relationships with senior internal customers and suppliers
- Deep experience in understanding (external) customer journeys and designing new customer experiences.
- Extensive experience in engaging and influencing region-level collaborators
- Strong organisational change
- Proficiency in strategic planning, change enablement and innovation
- Extensive experience planning, deploying and maintaining capabilities.

**WHY JOIN IT?**

We’re a network of entrepreneurial self-starters who contribute to something far bigger. There’s a diversity of expertise in our Technology group that’s unique to AstraZeneca - it allows us to dive deep into exploring new leading-edge technology. We enable AstraZeneca to perform at its peak by delivering world-class technology and data solutions.

Our work unlocks the potential of science. We optimise and evolutionise AstraZeneca by maximising efficiencies and finding new ways to drive productivity. From automation to data simplification. We’re not afraid to take ownership and run with it. Empowered with unrivalled freedom. A place to be open and transparent - we speak up, think creatively and share ideas. Our diverse contributions help us to make better decisions. But we have a constant drive to innovate, and an appreciation for high standards. It takes challenging the status quo to add value in our ever-evolving environment. We love it here because put simply, we make a meaningful impact.

Technology at AstraZeneca is a home for purposeful disruptors

**SO, WHAT’S NEXT?**

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