Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cencora is committed to creating healthier futures, and they are seeking a Principal in Analytics Transformation & AI Enablement. This role serves as a strategic extension of the SVP, driving transformation and AI enablement while ensuring organizational effectiveness across the Analytics organization.
Responsibilities
- Act as a transformation catalyst for the Analytics organization, connecting strategy, innovation, people, process, and technology to accelerate business outcomes
- Drive the organization's AI and Agentification agenda by identifying, prioritizing, and scaling new ways of working that increase productivity, quality, and business impact
- Serve as a trusted advisor to Analytics leadership, helping shape organizational strategy, operating models, communications, and execution priorities
- Build the connective tissue across a diverse analytics organization, ensuring teams operate as a unified enterprise capability rather than independent functional groups
- Translate vision into action by driving adoption of change at scale, establishing sustainable operating mechanisms, and ensuring strategic initiatives achieve measurable results
- Guides analytics strategy, multi-year roadmaps, and investment priorities across data platforms, tooling, and products
- Coordinates delivery of high-impact initiatives from problem framing through productionization and lifecycle management
- Communicates stakeholder alignment on tradeoffs, implications, and decisions to secure adoption across business and technology groups
- Builds communities of practice, code and pattern libraries, and coaching mechanisms to scale capability across teams
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in data science, computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, information systems, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years experience in data analytics or data engineering, including leadership of multi-team initiatives delivering analytics platforms, models, and products, or a related field
- Proven experience in leading data & analytics strategy
- Extensive background working within a large enterprise environment
- Strong organizational, budgeting, leadership skillsets
- Ability to influence, communication skills, organization skills, create workflow using technologies
- Prior experience building communities of practice, code and pattern libraries, and coaching mechanisms to scale capability across teams
- Ability to travel up to 20% as needed
- Master's degree in data science, computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, information systems, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Program Management experience - highly desired
- PMP Certification, Certification in Analytics Professional (CAP), DAMA Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP), and cloud professional-level certifications (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), or equivalent certification
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision care
- Backup dependent care
- Adoption assistance
- Infertility coverage
- Family building support
- Behavioral health solutions
- Paid parental leave
- Paid caregiver leave
- Training programs
- Professional development resources
- Opportunities to participate in mentorship programs
- Employee resource groups
- Volunteer activities
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