Associate Director, Procurement Product Owner AI/ML

We Are Teva

We're Teva, a leading innovative biopharmaceutical company, enabled by a world-class generics business. Whether it's innovating in the fields of neuroscience and immunology or delivering high-quality medicine worldwide, we're dedicated to addressing patients' needs now and in the future. Here, you will be part of a high-performing, inclusive culture that values fresh thinking and collaboration. You'll have the room to grow, the flexibility to balance life with work, and the opportunity to better health worldwide, together.

We Are Teva

We're Teva, a leading innovative biopharmaceutical company, enabled by a world-class generics business. Whether it's innovating in the fields of neuroscience and immunology or delivering high-quality medicine worldwide, we're dedicated to addressing patients' needs now and in the future. Here, you will be part of a high-performing, inclusive culture that values fresh thinking and collaboration. You'll have the room to grow, the flexibility to balance life with work, and the opportunity to better health worldwide, together.

Our Team, Your Impact

We are seeking an Associate Director, Procurement Product Owner AI/ML to own and shape the AI and Machine Learning product portfolio for Global Procurement.

Location

Portugal, Spain, Croatia, or Bulgaria

How You'll Spend Your Day

• Own and continuously shape the Procurement AI/ML product roadmap and portfolio backlog, ensuring priorities reflect strategic business value, feasibility, risk, adoption potential and enterprise alignment
• Translate high-value Procurement opportunities into clear AI/ML product concepts, business cases, outcome hypotheses, user stories, acceptance criteria and adoption measures
• Drive delivery of products leveraging Agentic AI, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Machine Learning, Generative AI, Predictive Analytics and automation, in close partnership with technical delivery owners
• Act as business owner for selected AI/ML initiatives in the Procurement context, ensuring solutions address relevant process needs, decision points and adoption requirements
• Partner with Legal, Risk, Compliance, IT and enterprise Data & Analytics teams where required to ensure responsible, secure and governed use of AI in business processes
• Partner closely with data, AI, engineering and enterprise technology specialists to translate business opportunities into scalable AI-enabled solutions
• Act as Scrum Master when needed, facilitating Agile ceremonies, removing delivery blockers, supporting team coordination and maintaining delivery cadence where no dedicated Scrum Master is assigned
• Coordinate release readiness, user acceptance testing, go-to-market planning, adoption communication, training inputs and handover requirements for AI/ML products and services
• Plan, run and continuously improve AI communities of practice in the Procurement organization, including agendas, stakeholder engagement, practical use-case sharing, adoption support and follow-up actions
• Contribute to AI capability building through practical playbooks, demos, office hours, stakeholder education and community engagement, with content grounded in relevant business use cases

Your Skills And Experience

• 8+ years of relevant experience, including significant product ownership or product management experience for AI/ML, advanced analytics, automation or technology-enabled business products in complex enterprise environments
• Proven experience owning complex product backlogs, roadmaps and delivery priorities for AI/ML, advanced analytics, automation or technology-enabled business products
• Strong Agile and Scrum experience, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, user story writing, acceptance criteria definition, delivery governance and acting as Scrum Master when needed
• Demonstrated ability to turn business problems into AI/ML product concepts, success measures, adoption plans and value realization approaches
• Strong senior-stakeholder management, communication, storytelling, change management and user adoption skills, with the ability to influence across business, data, AI and IT teams without direct authority
• Experience planning, running or scaling AI communities of practice, capability-building programs or cross-functional innovation forums

Also Good to Have

• Experience applying AI/ML, analytics or automation in Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance or other enterprise functions with complex data, process and stakeholder environments
• Exposure to SQL, Python, PySpark, APIs, systems integration, cloud-based Data & AI platforms or BI platforms, sufficient to collaborate effectively with technical experts and challenge feasibility assumptions
• Experience working in regulated, global or matrixed