Executive Director, AI and Transformation

Job Overview

The Executive Director (ED) of AI and Transformation is the strategic executive leader overseeing the acceleration and adoption of AI / ML across Fortrea’s enterprise. The life sciences industry is at an inflection point and is entering the 4th industrial revolution. Clinical Research Organizations who reinvent themselves and adopt and scale AI / ML will continue to compete, grow, and deliver positive impact to biopharmaceutical sponsors, patients, and healthcare. The ED of AI and Transformation will lead Fortrea’s strategic AI / ML roadmap, contributing to the organization’s differentiation, efficiency, and growth. They will influence the enterprise and engage the life sciences ecosystem, connecting with peers in industry and technology. The ED, through their efforts, will increase Fortrea’s innovative reputation leading to improved win rates with clients. They will need to influence and obtain buy in from leaders across the company, their peers in IT leadership and our C-level executives.

In addition to matrixed leadership, the ED will be accountable for leading a lean AIML team, developing state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning pipelines, models, and applications and setting AIML standards for the organization. These algorithms will augment employees and replace tasks through the deployment of agents. The ED will be accountable for partnering across the business to help employees adopt and embed new ways of working. They will work closely with data scientists and engineers to develop and deploy highly capable AI / ML models and algorithms that address Fortrea's business challenges. This role serves as a champion of AI / ML by facilitating efforts to incorporate AI / ML capabilities into the Fortrea business model, applications, and processes. The role will stay abreast of prevailing trends, influence and change a large, matrixed, regulated organization, and enhance external, innovative reputation.

Summary of Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership, Planning, and Communication

• Develop a strategic vision and roadmap for AI / ML and ensure initiatives are aligned with the organization's goals and objectives. This includes initiatives such as sales effectiveness, corporate function automation (e.g. procurement, legal, compliance, finance, IT), regulatory content generation, knowledge retrieval and understanding, clinical trial simulation.
• Partner with senior leadership to prioritize AI initiatives, develop business cases, and co‑own value generation. Performance will be evaluated based on business impact (e.g. productivity).
• Partner with Consulting by providing thought leadership, frameworks, and solutions to differentiate and grow Consulting revenue.
• Chair the AI council to drive business alignment.
• Obtain buy‑in from C‑level executives and leaders across the enterprise.
• Communicate vision to increase innovative reputation across the Fortrea enterprise, the life sciences ecosystem, and with peers in industry and technology.

AI / ML Development and Enterprise Implementation

Team Leadership and Collaboration

Innovation and Thought Leadership

People responsibilities

Qualifications (Minimum Required)

Experience (Minimum Required)

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