Senior Digital Strategist

As **Senior Digital Strategist** on the Digital Strategy & Enablement team, you will create value for AZ by acting as a seasoned senior expert to translate the needs of the business into digital strategies that support the remit & scope of the CDH. Able to author business goals into clear digital guidance & long-term roadmaps, as well as teach non-experts to do the same, you champion a disciplined approach to strategy without losing sight of our servant-leadership approach.

**YOUR MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIES AND TASKS**:

- You create/co-create/guide the creation of roadmaps & strategies make sure our commercial leaders understand what their digital investments are doing for them and their teams
- You reach across the CDH teams, GCIT, and other commercial digital partners to ensure the different CDH (and other digital expert) verticals are speaking the same language and communicating a coherent set of strategies in a common language without jargon
- You help create our digital strategy product definition, to standardize the development of digital strategy & ensure best outcomes.
- Lead sessions guiding the co-creation of long-term strategic roadmaps that harmonize the situational analyses, future state visions, dependencies, and investments of CDH teams, GCIT, GCO, GMA, and other owners of digital strategies.
- Support creation standards to guide external vendors in creation of digital strategies in service to AZ customers.
- Accountable for operating a process that identifies and uses our internal & external SMEs effectively to effectively provide a guided leadership decision support experience which empowers AZ leaders to make digital investment & action decisions with speed, confidence, and to best outcomes.
- Finds ways to make digital strategy more usable by the business as a part of existing business planning processes such as MTP, BSP, etc.
- Key initial focus and delivery includes:

- Partner with the Head of Digital Strategy & Enablement to support the transition of the current Content Strategy & Experience Design Team into the new structure and remit of the CDH Digital Strategy organization.
- Continue to refine the approach for AZ developing digital solutions for the highest priority business needs
- Provide direction and input into core elements of digital product delivery including, planning/design, user experience and content strategy.
- Define and deploy an effective strategic framework for enabling the success of digital products in market
- Assess the internal and external digital landscape for scaling of effective approaches to the business
- Act as a talent magnet to upskill existing and bring in new talent in the digital space

**YOUR EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE**

**Role Requirements**:

- Ability to differentiate multiple opportunities in service of strategic goals
- Thorough understanding of digital business development and ability to craft external agreements that ensure AZ objectives are prioritized and match partner objectives.
- Experience building & leading a global digital organization for a large multinational life sciences enterprise
- Understanding of broad health industry market archetypes
- Equal or more than 8 years in the commercial digital business
- Understanding of OBU and BBU brand priorities with depth
- Proven track record in Hiring excellent people and building strong teams
- Experience in bringing innovation that is solving complex and multi-dimensional issues from an operational, technical, financial, and human perspective
- Experience In driving global change in complex organizations, covering multiple cultures and a significant number of functions Highly developed communication and influencing abilities across organizational teams and levels in a large complex operating environment
- Ability to express complex ideas in a clear and compelling way to multiple external and internal stakeholder groups
- Entrepreneurial with the highest level of integrity and the ability to foster trust and loyalty
- Motivated by delivering digital innovation in service of enhanced patient outcomes and treatment experience