Associate director, ai systems strategist (life sciences)

🚀 Now Hiring: Associate Director, AI Systems Strategist (Life Sciences)

📍 Ghent, Belgium (Relocation supported) | 💼 6‑month contract → potential permanent

🌍 Open to candidates in Belgium or Switzerland


Are you a life‑science technology leader with real experience shaping agentic or multi‑agent AI solutions in a regulated (GxP) setting?

Do you excel at turning complex business needs into clear, actionable technical direction?

If so, this role will put you at the centre of one of the most innovative AI build-outs in the industry.


⭐ Why This Role Matters

You’ll act as the strategic bridge between scientific, operational, and engineering teams—designing and delivering agentic & multi-agent AI systems that truly scale across R&D, Development, and Commercial functions.

We’re looking for someone who:

🔹 Has hands-on experience developing or owning AI solutions inside a Pharma, Biotech, or Med Device organisation

🔹 Understands GxP deeply enough to explain its operational impact to engineering, infrastructure, security, compliance, and quality

🔹 Can assess and translate ambiguous business requirements into robust, production-ready AI specifications

🔹 Is energised by cutting-edge AI (agentic frameworks, multi-agent workflows, orchestration, MLOps, cloud-native architecture)


🧠 What You’ll Be Doing

Translate Business → AI Engineering

* Turn strategic goals into system architectures, roadmaps, multi-agent workflows, and technical specifications
* Lead discovery on use cases, feasibility, and value for agentic AI solutions

Design & Build

* Architect pilots using Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, and open-source frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI)
* Harden solutions for production with the right observability, reliability, and performance measures

Buy & Integrate

* Evaluate external AI tools and embed them into enterprise systems and regulated workflows
* Ensure interoperability, compliance, auditability, and scalability

Collaborate Everywhere

Partner closely with:

Engineering • Architecture • Infrastructure • Ops • Security • Quality • Compliance • Domain business teams


🧩 Your Background

✔ Experience in Pharma, Biotech, or MedTech (Med Device: must be internal systems—not wearable tech)

✔ Strong capability in AI Engineering, ML Engineering, Data Science, or Solution Architecture

✔ Fluent in cloud ecosystems (Azure ML/OpenAI, AWS Bedrock/SageMaker, Snowflake, Databricks)

✔ Hands-on understanding of multi-agent stacks and orchestration

✔ Comfortable discussing the real-world implications of GxP, including how you have adapted AI/ML solutions to regulatory constraints


🎯 Soft Skills That Make You Stand Out

* High empathy and strong stakeholder communication
* Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous environments
* Passion for emerging AI technologies
* Resilience, adaptability, and a solution-focused mindset
* Comfort leading brainstorming sessions—but not a line management role


🌟 Example Projects You May Own

* Using ML to cut clinical development timelines—optimising site strategy, inclusion/exclusion criteria, and patient pool modelling
* Integrating third‑party AI solutions into systems like Veeva to streamline workflows and reduce operational friction
* Building early-phase prototypes and maturing them into scalable, enterprise-ready systems


🌍 Travel & Location

✈ Average travel to Ghent every other week

🏡 Relocation package available:

– Apartment for 3 months

– Help from a relocation agency

– Language courses

– Tax advisory support

If you’re passionate about shaping next-generation agentic AI in a regulated life‑science environment—and you thrive on both strategy and hands-on delivery—this is your opportunity.


💬 Interested? Message me directly for a confidential conversation.


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