diff --git a/lib/crewai/src/crewai/llms/providers/azure/completion.py b/lib/crewai/src/crewai/llms/providers/azure/completion.py
index 156fa8984..fc68b42be 100644
--- a/lib/crewai/src/crewai/llms/providers/azure/completion.py
+++ b/lib/crewai/src/crewai/llms/providers/azure/completion.py
@@ -155,6 +155,22 @@ class AzureCompletion(BaseLLM):
         return AsyncChatCompletionsClient(**self._make_client_kwargs())
 
     def _make_client_kwargs(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        # Re-read env vars so that a deferred build can pick up credentials
+        # that weren't set at instantiation time (e.g. LLM constructed at
+        # module import before deployment env vars were injected).
+        if not self.api_key:
+            self.api_key = os.getenv("AZURE_API_KEY")
+        if not self.endpoint:
+            endpoint = (
+                os.getenv("AZURE_ENDPOINT")
+                or os.getenv("AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT")
+                or os.getenv("AZURE_API_BASE")
+            )
+            if endpoint:
+                self.endpoint = AzureCompletion._validate_and_fix_endpoint(
+                    endpoint, self.model
+                )
+
         if not self.api_key:
             raise ValueError(
                 "Azure API key is required. Set AZURE_API_KEY environment "
diff --git a/lib/crewai/tests/llms/azure/test_azure.py b/lib/crewai/tests/llms/azure/test_azure.py
index bee767157..d5efcfc69 100644
--- a/lib/crewai/tests/llms/azure/test_azure.py
+++ b/lib/crewai/tests/llms/azure/test_azure.py
@@ -416,6 +416,32 @@ async def test_azure_aclose_is_noop_when_uninitialized():
             pass
 
 
+def test_azure_lazy_build_reads_env_vars_set_after_construction():
+    """When `LLM(model="azure/...")` is constructed before env vars are set,
+    the lazy client builder must re-read `AZURE_API_KEY` / `AZURE_ENDPOINT`
+    so the LLM actually works once credentials become available."""
+    from crewai.llms.providers.azure.completion import AzureCompletion
+
+    with patch.dict(os.environ, {}, clear=True):
+        llm = AzureCompletion(model="gpt-4")
+        assert llm.api_key is None
+        assert llm.endpoint is None
+
+    with patch.dict(
+        os.environ,
+        {
+            "AZURE_API_KEY": "late-key",
+            "AZURE_ENDPOINT": "https://test.openai.azure.com/openai/deployments/gpt-4",
+        },
+        clear=True,
+    ):
+        client = llm._get_sync_client()
+        assert client is not None
+        assert llm.api_key == "late-key"
+        assert llm.endpoint is not None
+        assert "test.openai.azure.com" in llm.endpoint
+
+
 def test_azure_endpoint_configuration():
     """
     Test that Azure endpoint configuration works with multiple environment variable names