Senior Director, AI Transformation

Avalere Health•Washington, DC

5d•$140,000 - $180,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Director, AI Transformation is a client-dedicated leadership role responsible for turning one strategic pharma client's AI ambitions into adopted, governed and measurable solutions. Acting as the bridge between the client, the Avalere Health account team and the Co-Intelligence Centre, this person will combine executive client partnership, AI strategy, workflow transformation, change leadership and value realization. The successful candidate will be credible with senior pharma leaders and technically fluent enough to guide solution design, evaluation, integration and governance. They will not be expected to personally engineer every solution. Their role is to mobilize the right teams, maintain momentum and ensure the work creates lasting client value.

Requirements

Senior leadership experience. Typically 12 or more years in transformation, consulting, digital product, innovation or client leadership, including significant experience in pharma or life sciences.
A strong record of advising and influencing senior leaders in complex, matrixed organizations.
Experience moving AI, analytics or automation from discovery and pilot into adopted, governed workflows.
Practical understanding of large language models, agent workflows, model evaluation, data and integration requirements, safety and reliability.
Strong capability in process mapping, workflow redesign, operating-model change, adoption, enablement and benefits realization.
Excellent facilitation, writing and executive presentation skills, with the ability to make complex choices clear and actionable.

Nice To Haves

Experience across Medical, Commercial, Market Access, Insights and Content Operations.
Familiarity with responsible AI, privacy, medical and regulatory review, MLR and common life-sciences platforms.
Experience shaping prototypes, evaluating model outputs and creating playbooks, champions networks or communities of practice.

Responsibilities

Serve as a trusted adviser. Build strong relationships with senior client stakeholders and help them make practical choices about AI priorities, investment, sequencing and risk.
Develop and maintain a joint AI transformation roadmap aligned to the client's commercial, medical and operational priorities.
Establish clear decision pathways, governance forums and executive reporting across the AI portfolio.
Identify high-value opportunities. Lead workshops, interviews and workflow reviews to uncover priority business problems and unmet needs.
Turn client challenges into solution briefs, scopes of work, delivery plans and technically actionable requirements, including user stories, epics, tickets, acceptance criteria, assumptions, dependencies, milestones and resourcing needs.
Assess opportunities based on strategic value, feasibility, readiness, risk, adoption effort and time to value.
Bring together AI Solutions Engineers, product, data, domain and client specialists around each priority use case.
Oversee work from prototype and pilot through evaluation, production, launch and handover.
Define future-state workflows, roles, controls and handoffs so AI becomes part of day-to-day practice.
Create role-based playbooks, training, champions, office hours and feedback loops with client change and learning teams.
Partner with AI, IT, security, legal, privacy, medical, regulatory and MLR stakeholders to embed appropriate guardrails and human oversight.
Set baselines and track adoption, efficiency, capacity, quality, client outcomes and commercial value, using the evidence to improve and scale the work.
Use delivered value to strengthen executive relationships and identify opportunities to expand the client's engagement with Avalere Health.
Equip the account team with a consistent, evidence-based narrative about Avalere Health's AI capability and impact.
Develop playbooks and patterns that improve delivery while protecting client confidentiality.

Benefits

401K plan with an employer match contribution up to 4% (immediately vested)
life insurance
disability coverage
medical, dental, and vision plans
flexible working arrangements, including hybrid and remote work
option to work from anywhere across the globe two weeks each year
20 vacation days
one personal well-being day
9 public holidays
gifted end-of-year holidays
early Summer Friday finish in June, July, and August
free counselling through our employee assistance program
personalized health support
enhanced maternity, paternity, family leave
fertility policies
continuous opportunities to professionally develop with on-demand training, support, and global mobility opportunities across the business.