AI Tooling Strategy & Lifecycle Management Director

AI Tooling Strategy & Roadmap Develop and maintain Vizient’s enterprise AI tooling strategy and roadmap aligned with AI‑DLC, architecture, security, governance, product, and delivery priorities. Identify tooling gaps, duplication, interoperability issues, adoption barriers, operational risks, and consolidation opportunities. Recommend tooling priorities, investment needs, lifecycle actions, and rationalization opportunities to leadership. AI Tool Lifecycle & Standards Own the enterprise lifecycle framework for AI tools from evaluation and onboarding through adoption, optimization, renewal, and retirement. Establish standards for AI tool intake, ownership, onboarding, access model definition, integration readiness, documentation, observability expectations, support readiness, lifecycle reviews, and retirement. Maintain an enterprise inventory of AI tools, capabilities, owners, users, licenses, integrations, costs, risks, controls, vendors, and operational status. Governance, Vendor & Enterprise Enablement Partner with Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Governance/Compliance, Procurement, Legal, Finance, Product, Engineering, Platform, LLMOps/AIOps and vendor teams to align AI tooling with enterprise requirements. Coordinate vendor and platform engagement for AI tooling, in partnership with Procurement, Legal, Finance and accountable platform owners, including vendor assessments, support models, escalation paths, roadmap awareness, renewal planning, and performance tracking. Track AI tooling spend, license utilization, adoption patterns, renewal timelines, risks, and cost optimization opportunities. Facilitate the intake, prioritization, and cross‑functional review of AI tooling requests, lifecycle decisions, implementation dependencies, and operational readiness needs. Estimated Hiring Range: This position is also incentive eligible. Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan. Equal Opportunity Employer Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities. The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law. #J-18808-Ljbffr Vizient, Inc