Director – Data Science & AI Product (OBU)

Location: Barcelona - Spain (3 days working from the office and 2 days working from home)
Introduction to Role: 

Join our Commercial Data Science and AI team, where we deliver digital and technology solutions to multiple business areas across OBU and BBU in the Global markets. As the Director for Data Science & AI Product (OBU), you will be responsible for driving AI initiatives, fostering innovation, developing cutting-edge products, ensuring adoption, working with a multi-functional team and most importantly making a difference in the lives of our patients and health care professionals. The focus of your role will be on Oncology business across Europe, Canada and International markets. This role partners closely with the Oncology therapy area leaders, digital/data/artificial intelligence teams, commercial teams, market access and enterprise platform teams to transform high value business problems into scalable, business friendly, impactful and compliant AI products which deliver measurable impact for the patients and the business. 

Accountabilities: 
 

As a member of the Commercial Data Science & AI team our mission is to take a patient-centric, data-driven approach to personalize and transform healthcare delivery to the millions of patients along with a multi-disciplinary team of physicians who care for them. This responsibility involves working closely with cross-functional Commercial, Medical, and Business leaders to identify, prioritize, and develop Data Science, AI, and Advanced Analytics Platforms & Products across Oncology businesses.  The scope of this role is Global serving all the markets where AstraZeneca’s life-changing medicines are approved to help Patients live longer and realize AZ’s bold ambition. 

 
Strategy and portfolio leadership: you will define the AI product vision and multi-year roadmap for the Oncology business unit. You would prioritise a balanced portfolio across use cases on commercial analytics, operational productivity, physician engagement, scientific engagement which are aligned to therapy area and brand strategies. 

Product discovery and design: you will be leading discovery with cross functional partners to identify business problems, user journeys and validate feasibility, desirability, and the business impact. These insights will be translated into product requirements while championing the human centre design and responsible AI for our Oncology business units. 

Data and AI excellence: you will be partnering with data engineering and platform teams to secure data access and quality. You will work with data scientist and AI engineers to guide on model selection and evaluation. The solution solutions should be scalable, aligned to the business varieties and make sound business impact for various tumour types and indications. 

Cross-functional collaboration: You will be working with cross-functional teams across the geographies comprising of Business Excel