Executive Search

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Head of Enterprise AI Platforms

Introduction to role
Are you ready to lead the charge in transforming healthcare through AI? This is an opportunity to drive the adoption of AI across every step of the biopharmaceutical value chain - from discovering new compounds to ensuring patient safety. As the Head of Enterprise AI Platforms, you will be at the forefront of this journey, shaping the development and deployment of pioneering AI solutions within a global, science-led organisation. Join us in revolutionising healthcare and making a meaningful impact on patients' lives worldwide.

Accountabilities
As the Head of Enterprise AI Platforms, you will be responsible for steering the organisation's AWS AI ecosystem, ensuring seamless operation and integration into broader business platforms. You will lead a team of AI engineers and collaborate with a diverse set of partners to build a robust, secure, and cost-effective machine learning environment. Your strategic vision will guide the consolidation of existing AI platforms and influence AWS product roadmaps to align with a unified enterprise AI strategy. You will engage with senior AI leaders and data scientists to enable scalable machine learning models, leveraging your expertise to push technological boundaries and drive innovation.

Essential Skills/Experience

• Developing technical strategies and aligning with partners across a sophisticated global organisation

• Influencing and communicating strategy effectively

• Budget and resource management (FTE, Outsourced Service Providers, Professional Services) for complex stakeholder groups

• Strong software coding skills, with proficiency in Python (though exceptional ability in any language will be recognised)

• Experience leading an enterprise platform and service, managing new customer demand and feature requests

• Proven leadership of technical teams

• Experience with SAFe agile principles and practices

• Familiarity with internal security standards and frameworks

• B.S. degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related quantitative/analytical field

• Significant experience with AWS cloud environments & services (e.g., SageMaker, Athena, S3, EC2, RDS, Glue, etc.)

• Proven ability to build data science and machine learning environments to production standard

• Modern DevOps mindset, using toolchains such as Docker and Git

• Experience with infrastructure as code technologies (Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation)

• Ability to adapt standard machine learning methods to exploit modern parallel environments (distributed clusters, multicore SMP, GPU)

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Experience in implementing & maintaining GxP-compliant life science systems

• Relevant professional certifications

• Experience building large-scale data processing pipelines (Hadoop/Spark, SQL)

• Multi-cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP)

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Job Title: Project Service Lead

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

About the Role:

Join a leading global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to pushing the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines. As a Project Service Lead, you will play a pivotal role in managing a team of project managers, coordinators, and analysts. Your focus will be on fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement, ensuring the delivery of high-quality services aligned with best practices. You will identify opportunities to deliver savings and successful outcomes to internal customers, maintain relationships to ensure our services exceed expectations, and manage projects to ensure timely delivery and quality outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• People Management: Lead and develop a team, promoting excellence and continuous improvement.
• Business Development: Identify opportunities to deliver savings and successful outcomes to internal customers.
• Quality Assurance: Implement and maintain quality control processes to ensure high-quality service delivery.
• Customer Service: Maintain relationships with customers, ensuring our services meet and exceed expectations.
• Project Management: Oversee projects, ensuring timely delivery and quality outcomes.

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Proven track record in leading projects of medium complexity.
• Experience in management consulting.
• Demonstrated experience in people management and team development.
• Strong customer service and engagement skills.
• Experience in project and quality assurance practices.
• Excellent influencing, communication, and relationship-building skills.
• Comfortable operating in a complex, global matrix organisation.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Project Management Certification.
• Change Management Certification.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical or equivalent global and complex organisations.

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Job Title: BPO Advisory Director
Location: London, Remote  
Salary: £100,000

Are you an accomplished leader in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) with a knack for strategy, client engagement, and operational excellence? Join our team as a BPO Advisory Director and play a pivotal role in helping top clients optimize and transform their business processes through innovative outsourcing solutions.

About the Role:

As the BPO Advisory Director, you'll lead advisory services, manage high-impact projects, and foster client relationships, delivering tailored BPO strategies that drive operational improvements and business growth. You'll oversee project teams, ensuring project success from inception to delivery, while also spearheading business development to expand our advisory practice.

Key Responsibilities:

• Client Engagement & Strategy: Build and maintain client relationships, design customized BPO strategies, and provide industry insights and innovative solutions.
• Project Management: Lead BPO projects end-to-end, maintaining quality standards and budget adherence.
• Business Development: Identify growth opportunities, prepare proposals, and drive practice expansion.
• Operational Excellence:Develop effective processes, ensure regulatory compliance, and optimize service delivery.
• Team Leadership: Mentor and lead consultants, fostering a collaborative, high-performing team environment.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or related field; MBA preferred.
• At least 15 years in BPO, with a minimum of 5 years in leadership.
• Strong strategic thinking, leadership, client-focused, with proficiency in BPO technologies and project management tools.

Why Join Us?

Be part of a dynamic environment where your expertise in BPO and leadership skills will directly impact our clients' success. We offer competitive benefits, a collaborative culture, and opportunities for professional growth.
 

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