AstraZeneca

Director, Enterprise AI Process & Innovation

Canada - Mississauga · Director · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$147k-$184kDetected 1 day ago

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About the role

You will operate at the intersection of business strategy, AI capability, and enterprise delivery.
How will you connect generative AI, automation, and advanced analytics to improve speed, quality, cost, and decision confidence across the enterprise?
Translate strategic and operational challenges into clear, outcome-led use cases with success measures and delivery roadmaps, advising on technical trade-offs and risks to enable confident decisions.

Do you want to drive significant improvements across our entire value chain, with the executive sponsorship and investment to back it?
As Director, Enterprise AI Process & Innovation, you will lead the translation of strategy into scaled AI outcomes across the company's most critical end-to-end processes, partnering with senior leaders to focus on the problems that matter and the metrics that prove impact.
From first idea to production, you will shape use cases, build and test prototypes, and ensure robust solutions that stand up in real operations.
Lead the design and delivery of AI-enabled improvements across end-to-end processes.
Ensure solutions are designed for scale, reuse, robustness, and long-term sustainability.
Develop or contribute to rapid prototypes and proofs of concept; review and validate model logic, data pipelines, and system behavior, diagnose and resolve complex technical or delivery challenges.
Lead multi-disciplinary teams across business, AI engineering, data, technology, change, and risk functions.
Own outcomes from concept to production deployment and business adoption, managing risks related to data quality, model performance, production readiness, and technical debt.
Partner with Risk, Legal, Quality, and Compliance to embed controls, validation, and monitoring, and contribute to evolving enterprise AI delivery standards, patterns, and operating models.

Bachelor's degree in a scientific, engineering, or technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Proven ability to operate confidently in senior business and executive-facing contexts.
Strong hands-on technical and coding experience, including
writing and reviewing production-quality or production-adjacent code (e.g. Python, SQL, notebooks)
Working directly with data pipelines, analytical workflows, and machine learning models
Prototyping, testing, and iterating AI solutions from concept through to scalable implementation

Annual base salary for this position ranges from 147,292.80 to 193,321.80.
Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role.
The range provided in this posting represents an offer pay range used in a majority of situations.

offered for permanent roles include a competitive Flex Benefits & Retirement Savings Program, 4 weeks' paid vacation, and annual Personal Days.
Fixed Term Contract/Temporary positions (excluding students) are offered a Contract Benefits Program.
In addition, our permanent positions offer an annual Variable Pay Bonus/Short Term Incentive opportunity as well as eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program (if applicable to role).

Do you want to drive significant improvements across our entire value chain, with the executive sponsorship and investment to back it?

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