Clinical Digital & AI Acceleration Innovation Manager

Main Responsibilities

• Co-own and lead CSO Digital & AI transformation initiatives at function level, ensuring alignment with CSO strategy, business priorities, and value realization commitments.
• Exercise decision authority on initiatives prioritization, sequencing, and trade-offs to maximize CSO-wide value and time-to-impact.
• Align strategically and operationally CSOs flagship transformation initiatives (e.g., ACT4Patients & eDEV) to ensure coherence, integration, and early realization of business outcomes.
• Continuously challenge and recalibrate the transformation roadmap based on business performance data, field feedback, and competitive intelligence.
• Ensure global visibility and governance alignment across all internal and external digital innovation initiatives (Clinical Innovation, external forums, partnerships, etc.).
• Evolve the Initiative Portfolio Management Office (iPMO) as a CSO governance and decision-enablement mechanism, not a procedural framework.
• Define, institutionalize, and enforce governance standards (business cases, ROI logic, value tracking, scale-up criteria, stop/pivot decisions).
• Hold transformation teams accountable for outcome-based delivery and value realization, beyond milestone completion.
• Lead and sponsor selected high-impact, multi-million-euro, clinical-development critical transformation programs with Digital and/or AI components.
• Accountable for end-to-end outcomes, including strategic alignment, financial performance, adoption, scale-up, and sustained value delivery.
• Direct and validate: Competitive and technology intelligence to inform strategic positioning, function-level business needs and value hypotheses, prioritization of business-driven requirements shaping product and roadmap decisions & gaps analysis against existing solutions and operating models.
• Influence CSO-wide positioning and integration of strategic platforms (e.g., NEXUS, TrialPulse, Concierge).
• Own risk, dependency, and performance steering, escalating and arbitrating at CSO leadership level as required.

Digital & AI Acceleration Capability Building

• Define and own CSO-wide frameworks for measuring ROI, business impact, adoption, and maturity of digital, data, and AI initiatives.
• Provide portfolio-level, decision-grade visibility on solution interdependencies, capability impacts, and end-to-end process transformation.
• Institutionalize lessons learned and drive continuous improvement across the CSO transformation ecosystem.
• Continuously scan and interpret external technology, AI, and regulatory trends, translating them into actionable CSO transformation opportunities.

Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration

• Engage, influence, and challenge CSO senior leadership and executive stakeholders as a trusted transformation and governance partner.
• Represent portfolio status, risks, and value realization in executive governance forums, providing clear recommendations and decision options.
• Co-lead CSO-level digital and AI strategy forums, shaping leadership understanding and adoption of innovation.
• Build and maintain enterprise partnerships beyond CSO (TMU, GRA, PV, Digital, etc.) to accelerate transformation at scale.
• Act as an enterprise integrator between business, technology, and data teams, ensuring alignment and accountability.