Transformation Lead, Strategy and Operations, Specialty Care GBU
Main Responsibilities
- Turns the Specialty Care GBUs transformation priorities into delivered change across its franchises and functions.
- Lead complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives, spanning digital and AI-enabled ways of working through to operational excellence, and carry them from design to adoption and measurable impact.
- Mobilize and direct cross-functional expert teams, working alongside the subject-matter experts and functional groups that own data, analytics, and AI platform capabilities, and bringing those capabilities into the GBU to deliver impact at scale across its franchises and functions.
About The Job
Join the team transforming care for people with immune challenges, rare diseases, cancers, and neurological conditions. In Specialty Care, you'll help deliver breakthrough treatments that bring hope to patients with some of the highest unmet needs. The Transformation Lead turns the Specialty Care GBUs transformation priorities into delivered change across its franchises and functions. Sitting within the Strategy & Operations team, you will lead complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives, spanning digital and AI-enabled ways of working through to operational excellence, and carry them from design to adoption and measurable impact.
Reporting
Reports to the Global Head of Strategy & Operations, Specialty Care GBU, this is a senior individual leadership role. You will mobilize and lead cross-functional expert teams through the matrix, without direct authority, holding diverse contributors to shared goals and timelines. Work effectively with senior leaders across R&D, Commercial, Medical, Finance, and the Digital, Data, and AI functions, influencing decisions and priorities through credibility and evidence. Act as a trusted partner to the Strategy & Operations leadership and the wider Specialty Care GBU leadership team on transformation matters.
Education
- Bachelors degree required; business, scientific, engineering, or related field is preferred.
- An advanced degree (MBA, MSc, or equivalent) is preferred.
Experience
- Minimum 8 years of progressive experience delivering complex transformation, with a demonstrable record of change that was implemented, adopted, and scaled, rather than transformation strategy alone.
- A blend of the following is highly valued: digital and AI-enabled transformation in a complex enterprise; operating-model, ways-of-working, or operational-excellence transformation within biopharma (commercial, medical, or R&D); and experience gained in a top-tier strategy or transformation consulting environment.
- A track record of leading cross-functional initiatives through a matrix, coordinating internal and external resources to deliver on time and to outcome.
- Working familiarity with how digital, data, and AI capabilities are built and deployed, and how to bring them into a business to create value.
Skills & Competencies
- Delivery focus: turns ambiguous, complex problems into structured plans and carries them through to measurable impact.
- Digital & AI fluency: conversant enough with digital, data, and AI to partner credibly with technical experts and translate capability into business value.
- Influence: exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the credibility to align senior leaders and mobilize teams without direct authority.
- Agility: comfortable with ambiguity and able to adapt quickly in a fast-paced, matrixed global environment.
- Cross-functional leadership: leads through influence, energizing matrix teams and drawing on the strengths of diverse experts toward a common goal.
- Strategic thinking: connects individual initiatives to the GBUs broader strategy and priorities, and keeps execution pragmatic and focused.
- Relationships and influence: politically astute, builds trust quickly, and role-models collaboration across functions and levels.
- Result orientation: driven to deliver outcomes, takes ownership, anticipates issues, and takes calculated decisions to keep initiatives moving.
Measurement & Impact
- Define and track the metrics that show each initiative has delivered, connecting activity to operational and business outcomes.
- Establish clear accountability and reporting so progress and impact are visible to GBU leadership.
- Capture and share lessons and reusable approaches to accelerate future transformation.
Why Choose Us?
- Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
- Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether its through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
- Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
- Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks gender-neutral parental leave.