Senior Director, Digital and AI Analytics and Process Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd.

We are looking for a dynamic individual to fulfil the role of Senior Director, Digital & AI for Analytics and Process Transformation, International. The successful candidate will be accountable for re-wiring critical process to simplify and accelerate through AI and automation, starting with key performance analytics and annual business cycle processes.

Accountabilities:

Digital & AI for Analytics and Process Transformation

• Automation and Process redesign: Identify and automate high-friction workflows, applying AI automation to remove bottlenecks, reduce cycle times and manual effort while improving quality and compliance

• Annual business cycle transformation: Embed AI to simplify and automate planning, forecasting, and performance reviews

• Analytics modernization: Rewire key performance analytics (commercial, medical, market access) with standardized datasets, highly visual dashboards, and AI-enabled automation and analytics to accelerate decision-making, acting as voice into global GIBEX, EAI, AXIAL programs

• AI & digital fluency: Define and execute the upskilling agenda for International building AI literacy, data fluency, and digital ways-of-working across functions

• Enterprise alignment: Partner with Global GIBEX, EAI, AXIAL and other enterprise programs to ensure International priorities are represented, while partnering to adapt global capabilities to local market realities

Essential Skills / Experience:

• Subject-matter expertise in Sales and Marketing, AI, Digital and Innovation

• Experience in Data, Insight and Analytics including Forecasting and Performance Analytics

• 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

• Ability to express sophisticated ideas in a clear and compelling way to multiple external and internal partner groups

• Proven business partnering skills across multiple stakeholder groups

• Proven project management skills in matrix organizations

• An excellent communicator; ability to simplify complex messages into clear, visual stories and messages for executive presentations

• 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