Executive Director, Medical AI and Innovation
Novartis
AI Enablement – Automation Lead
Legends
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Visit company websiteJob Level
Senior
Tech Stack
RPA
About the role
- Define and own Legend’s AI + automation strategy, prioritising use cases that deliver measurable efficiency, productivity, and financial upside.
- Reframe business processes with automation and workflow innovation, not just AI alone.
- Translate emerging technologies into practical, business-ready solutions that reduce cycle times, save hours, and improve outcomes.
- Act as product manager for AI & automation initiatives. Scoping problems, designing solutions, and overseeing delivery (with external vendors, consultants, or partners as needed).
- Manage a dedicated budget, ensuring maximum ROI on tools, training, and implementation.
- Build repeatable frameworks for evaluating, piloting, and scaling productivity use cases across our pillars.
- Partner with our business functions, operating as a true cross-functional chameleon.
- Drive adoption through clear, positive communication that highlights opportunities, not just efficiencies.
- Orchestrate adoption and embed tools and workflows that empower teams and drive measurable business impact.
- Ensure appropriate training, frameworks, and guardrails are in place to use AI responsibly.
- Track and report impact, hours saved, cycle times reduced, revenue impact and make results visible to leadership.
Requirements
- Strategic operator with a product management, consulting, or operational efficiency background.
- 7+ years’ professional experience with proven delivery of operational/productivity outcomes (not just project outputs).
- Strong record of achieving success from cross-functional workstreams.
- Experience with workflow engineering, RPA, and productivity tooling (not only AI).
- Commercially minded, you can quantify ROI and build compelling business cases.
- Excellent communicator and persuader; you can win buy-in at all levels.
- Hands-on and outcome-driven; you thrive in roles where you both design strategy and deliver execution.
- Technically curious: familiar with AI concepts (e.g., LLMs, generative vs. classical ML), but not necessarily a coder.
- Lifelong learner with a track record of curiosity and self-directed upskilling.
Benefits
- Competitive salaries.
- Matched pension contribution.
- Health insurance.
- 25 days annual leave allowance and two extra days to celebrate your birthday and a life event day.
- Flexible working to suit you "work your way".
- Annual discretionary bonus linked to business and personal performance. Long term incentive plan to share in the growth of our business.
- Individual learning and development budget.
- Recharge your batteries between Christmas & New Year (our offices are closed).
- Paid sabbatical when you hit milestones.
- Companywide, social events.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
AI strategyautomation strategyworkflow engineeringRPAproduct managementoperational efficiencyROI quantificationbusiness case developmentcycle time reductionproductivity outcomes
Soft skills
strategic operatorexcellent communicatorpersuadercross-functional collaborationhands-onoutcome-driventechnically curiouslifelong learnerself-directed upskillingpositive communication
