Product Manager, AI Strategy and Enablement

Job Profile Summary

Under the direction of the VP of Global Products and Technology, the Product Manager, AI Strategy & Enablement is responsible for the AI capabilities and use cases within the enterprise AI portfolio. This role establishes and maintains AI roadmaps in partnership with business, technology, security, and data stakeholders to ensure AI initiatives are prioritized, governed, and scaled in alignment with strategic imperatives.

The Product Manager maintains a broad and current view of AI technologies, enterprise readiness, regulatory considerations, and emerging trends, ensuring AI adoption delivers measurable business value while managing risk.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Strategy / Planning

• Maintain an understanding of overall business strategy and how AI capabilities and use cases support strategic priorities

• Maintain a deep understanding of internal business partners, workflows, and organizational readiness for AI adoption

• Partner with business leaders and stakeholders to plan and maintain an AI portfolio roadmap spanning experimentation, pilot, and scaled deployment

• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, AI engineering, data, security, and delivery teams to translate business opportunities into well‑scoped and governed AI initiatives

• Drive innovation by incorporating emerging AI technologies and solution patterns into the AI roadmap

• Interface with internal partners regarding AI strategy, capabilities, value propositions, and usage expectations

• Develop and manage AI adoption and enablement strategies across the enterprise

• Work with Communications and Technology leaders to establish clear messaging that promotes responsible AI understanding and adoption

• Define, track, and communicate business value metrics for AI initiatives, including ROI assumptions, realized value, and operating costs

• Partner with Technology, Security, Legal, and Compliance to define and maintain AI governance standards, guardrails, and operating agreements

• Manage capital investment planning to support AI experimentation, platform investments, and scaled deployments

• Consider risk and risk management in the design, deployment, and operation of AI capabilities

Associate Management

• Build and manage product or portfolio specialists supporting AI use‑case intake and value tracking, as appropriate

• Foster a culture of learning, innovation, and responsible experimentation

• Mentor product team members on communication, prioritization, and decision‑making

• Comply with all policies, procedures, safety rules, and regulations

• Perform related duties as assigned

Qualifications

Experience

• 10+ years in technology, data, or platform leadership roles

• 5+ years working with AI/ML or advanced analytics in enterprise environments

• Demonstrated experience building operating models, governance frameworks, or CoEs

Skills & Attributes

• Strong strategic and systems thinker with pragmatic execution mindset

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and emerging technology

• Excellent communicator with both technical and executive stakeholders

• Deep appreciation for security, risk, and regulatory considerations

Technical Acumen

• Strong conceptual understanding of modern AI/ML and generative AI architectures

• Familiarity with cloud platforms, data platforms, and MLOps concepts

• Not required to be a daily coder, but must credibly engage technical teams

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, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email hrsc@cencora.com. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned

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