AI maturity
scaling
Head of AI/ML
Head of AI Strategy & Business Partnerships
Fresenius Medical Care · Healthcare / Dialysis & Renal Care · 📍 Waltham, MA
Senior translator-in-chief between Fresenius Medical Care's business units and its Data & AI organization, owning strategy, roadmaps, and value delivery across a global renal care enterprise.
Company stage
public
Source
linkedin
Key responsibilities
- Act as senior strategic Data & AI advisor to assigned business units, partnering with C-suite and functional leaders
- Develop data and AI strategies, roadmaps, and investment plans aligned to business outcomes
- Build and champion business cases for AI initiatives including value hypotheses, costs, risks, and KPIs
- Bridge business and technology teams to ensure requirements are clearly defined, prioritized, and delivered
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of business partners/analysts embedded across organizational areas
- Identify cross-business reuse opportunities for data and AI products to maximize organizational ROI
- Maintain awareness of external AI trends and competitive practices to inform internal strategy
Requirements
- Deep expertise in data, analytics, and AI — enough to evaluate and recommend solution options
- Proven experience as a strategic business partner or senior advisory role at enterprise scale
- Strong business case development skills including financial modeling and risk assessment
- Exceptional executive communication and business-to-technology translation skills
- People leadership experience managing multi-stakeholder, cross-functional teams
Signals
- ⚠ No salary or compensation range disclosed
- ⚠ Reporting line not specified — unclear where this sits in the hierarchy
- ⚠ Job description contains a duplicated sentence suggesting a rushed or poorly edited posting
- ⚠ Role reposted within approximately 12 months of a prior identical posting
- ✓ Mature Data & AI organization already in place with dedicated Platform, Governance, and Delivery functions
- ✓ Clear team leadership mandate with direct reports confirmed
- ✓ Strategic scope spans cross-business units at a $18B+ revenue global enterprise
- ✓ Travel requirements suggest genuine executive-level engagement and organizational investment
Company history
This role was posted in May 2026 and appears to be a repost or re-opening within a short window, suggesting the previous hire may not have worked out, the role scope evolved, or the search was reset — warrants direct clarification with the hiring team.