Partnership Director

We're building a connected, end-to-end Enterprise AI engine - uniting data foundations, AI technology, process reinvention, and business-facing AI to accelerate results across the whole value chain. Success depends on being exceptional connectors: you'll actively leverage existing capabilities, celebrate and promote reuse, export breakthrough ideas across geographies and functions, and obsess over scaling impact rather than building in isolation. If you thrive in high-collaboration environments where your role is to turn complex, cross-functional problems into reusable, enterprise-wide capabilities - and where the measure of success is adoption and scale, not just innovation - you'll have the platform (and sponsorship) to make it real.   

Introduction to Role  

This role sits at the intersection of external innovation, digital health, data strategy and AI ecosystem engagement. The Partnership Director will help translate strategic priorities and RWE requests into fit-for-purpose partnership options, ensuring that internal teams have a clear view of the available external partner landscape, data assets, capability maturity and transaction routes.   

You will be a senior operator in biotech & medtech ecosystems, with the judgement to distinguish signal from noise, the stakeholder range to align senior internal decision makers, and move from exploration to transaction and long-term partnership success. They will bring strong competence in multimodal AI and data driven healthcare, including an ability to assess how emerging AI capabilities, real-world datasets, platforms and partner operating models can support better decisions, better evidence generation and improved patient and healthcare system outcomes.   

Role Scope  

• The role scope includes partnership lifecycle responsibilities with end-to-end ownership from partner scouting, triage and internal alignment through transaction support, implementation, performance governance, renewal and potential expansion.  

• RWE and data partnerships, working with internal stakeholders to understand evidence needs, evaluate internal data assets, identify gaps, propose external partners and assess whether third-party datasets are fit-for-purpose.   

• Covering AI and digital health, including evaluating digital health, multimodal AI and data-enabled capabilities across biotech, health tech and platform ecosystems, with a focus on scalable, compliant and clinically significant use cases.   

• The role scope also involves external ecosystem engagement, developing relationships across start-ups, scale ups, academic institutions, accelerators, investors, government bodies and innovation agencies to source opportunities and build reputational equity.   

• In addition, the role scope includes internal business partnering, acting as a trusted adviser to therapeutic area, medical, commercial, market access, legal, procurement, data, privacy and compliance stakeholders.   

Key Accountabilities  

1.Originate and qualify strategic partnerships  

Identify external partners across digital health, data, AI, RWE, biotech ecosystems that align to strategic priorities and unmet business needs.   

Build and maintain a dynamic view of the external landscape, including emerging companies, platforms, data providers, academic groups,