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Job Details
Summary
The Principal, Analytics Transformation & AI Enablement serves as a strategic extension of the SVP, Head of Analytics, driving transformation, AI enablement, organizational effectiveness, and cross-functional execution across Cencora's Analytics organization. Success requires exceptional influence, executive communication, and the ability to lead change across teams without direct authority
Key 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.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in data science, computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, information systems, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience required.
- Master's degree in data science, computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, information systems, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience preferred.
- 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 required.
- Proven experience in leading data & analytics strategy,
- Extensive background working within a large enterprise environment
- Program Management experience - highly desired
- 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
- 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 preferred.
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Ability to travel up to 20% as needed
What Cencora offers
We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members’ ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adopt