Clinical Digital & AI Acceleration Innovation Manager

Main Responsibilities
Portfolio Management
- Co-own and lead CSO Digital & AI transformation initiatives at function level.
- Set decision authority on prioritization, sequencing, and trade-offs to maximize CSO-wide value and time-to-impact.
- Align flagship transformation initiatives (e.g., ACT4Patients & eDEV) for coherence, integration, and early value realization.
- Recalibrate the transformation roadmap using business performance data, field feedback, and competitive intelligence.
- Provide global visibility and governance alignment across internal/external digital innovation initiatives.
- Evolve the Initiative Portfolio Management Office (iPMO) into a governance and decision-enablement mechanism.
- Define 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.

Transformation Projects Leadership
- Lead and sponsor high-impact, multi-million-euro clinical-development programs with Digital and/or AI components.
- Own end-to-end outcomes: alignment, financial performance, adoption, scale-up, and sustained value delivery.
- Use competitive/technology intelligence to shape positioning, business needs, value hypotheses, and roadmap requirements.
- Guide vendor models, sourcing strategies, and contractual frameworks.
- Oversee financial planning, investment phasing, and resource allocation.
- Influence integration of strategic platforms (e.g., NEXUS, TrialPulse, Concierge).
- Ensure enterprise deployment/scale-up and track realized benefits beyond pilots.
- Steer risks/dependencies/performance and escalate/arbitrate at CSO leadership level.

Digital & AI Capability Building
- Define frameworks to measure ROI, impact, adoption, and maturity of digital/data/AI initiatives.
- Provide portfolio visibility on interdependencies, capability impacts, and end-to-end process transformation.
- Institutionalize lessons learned and drive continuous improvement.
- Scan external technology/AI/regulatory trends and translate them into transformation opportunities.

Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration
- Engage, influence, and challenge CSO senior leadership as a transformation/governance partner.
- Represent portfolio status, risks, and value realization in executive governance.
- Co-lead CSO digital/AI strategy forums.
- Build/maintain enterprise partnerships beyond CSO (TMU, GRA, PV, Digital, etc.).
- Integrate business, technology, and data teams for alignment and accountability.

Experience / Qualifications
- Minimum 8 years in enterprise digital transformation, portfolio leadership, or strategic program governance.
- Track record leading large-scale digital/data/AI transformation in complex regulated environments.
- Experience with BVA modeling, ROI tracking, and benefit realization.
- Ability to influence executive decisions and steer outcomes without direct authority.
- Understanding of clinical development; exposure to GCP, ICH-GCP, and operational quality frameworks.

Leadership & Behavioral Competencies
- Strategic/systems thinker connecting initiatives to value chains and operating-model shifts.
- Analytical rigor with executive judgment and decisiveness.
- Credible presence at senior/executive level.
- Outcome- and value-oriented with clear ownership.
- Excellent cross-functional, cross-cultural leadership and orchestration.

Education
- Master’s degree or PhD in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Data Science/Analytics, Engineering with AI/ML focus); MBA a plus.

Language
- Fluent in English.