Head - AI & Digital Solutions

F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG; Hinoba-an; Remote; PHP 2,310,000 - 3,961,000; Full time

Job summary

F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG in India is seeking a strategic Head of AI & Digital Solutions to shape the approach, lead a pilot team across disease areas, and validate scalable AI and digital solutions before broader deployment.

You will define the roadmap, build and govern the data platform and analytics strategy, mentor a data team, and manage external partnerships to deliver measurable healthcare impact.

Qualifications

• Experience leading AI/digital transformations in healthcare.
• Ability to define roadmap, prototype, and scale solutions.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills.
• Experience working with vendors and partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Define our initial AI/digital roadmap and identify high-impact problems.
• Lead end-to-end cycles from discovery through production.
• Build team capability through mentoring and standards.
• Ensure solutions address real healthcare needs with measurable impact.
• Oversee data platform architecture and analytics strategy.
• Report learnings and guide next phases based on outcomes.

Skills

Healthcare domain knowledge

AI product leadership

Data platform knowledge

Vendor partnerships

Regulatory awareness

Team leadership

Job description

Head - AI & Digital Solutions

Location: India (location agnostic)

About the Role

We're building our AI and digital solutions capability from the ground up. You'll shape what we deliver - defining our approach, leading a pilot team for one disease area, and proving out solutions before we scale.

You’ll own:

• Vision & Strategy: Identify high-impact healthcare problems solvable with AI/digital. Frame solutions that deliver business value.
• Team Leadership: Lead Data Manager(s) overseeing our data platform, analytics, and internal dashboards. Partner with AI Production Manager on external-facing solutions - from discovery through production.

What You'll Do

• Define our initial AI/digital roadmap - what problems matter, what's solvable, what's valuable
• Lead end-to-end cycles: identifying opportunities - prototyping - vendor partnerships - production
• Build team capability (mentoring, setting standards, learning together)
• Ensure solutions are grounded in real healthcare needs and deliver measurable impact
• Oversee data platform architecture and internal analytics strategy
• Report learnings and shape the next phase based on what works

What We're Looking For

• Healthcare understanding: Commercial, clinical, or operational exposure. You understand how healthcare decisions work.
• AI/digital curiosity & Data Literacy: You understand what AI can and can't do. You know data platform fundamentals and can brief stakeholders on data health.
• Commercial sense: You frame problems that matter to stakeholders.
• Regulatory & compliance knowledge: Understanding of medical, regulatory, and data privacy risks.
• Leadership potential: You attract talent, move fast, and learn from failure. Ability to lead a small team of talented individuals and provide the needed direction and support.
• Collaboration mindset: You break silos and drive collective wins.
• Hands-on: You'll deep-dive into problem definition, solution sketching, and delivery.
• Experience partnering with tech companies/startups: You've dealt with and have a network in the world of AI Tech and start-ups, and are experienced in managing vendors and structuring creative partnerships with them.

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100'000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact. Let's build a healthier future, together.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We believe it's urgent to deliver medical solutions right now - even as we develop innovations for the future.

We are passionate about transforming patients' lives.

We are courageous in both decision and action.

And we believe that good business means a better world.

That is why we come to work each day.

We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all.

We do this today to build a better tomorrow.

We are proud of who we are, what we do, and how we do it.

We are many, working as one across functions, across companies, and across the world.

We are Roche.