Collaboration Lead – Digital Health Collaborations (m/f/d) — Roche

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Here's what we're looking for

At Roche, we believe it is 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; we believe that good business means a better world.

At Roche Diagnostics, we are transforming diagnostics into an intelligent, data-driven system of care, powered by AI and digital solutions. A critical enabler of this transformation is deep, structured collaboration with leading healthcare institutions to co-develop, validate, and scale digital health innovations. The Digital Health Transformation & Innovation (DTHI) organization is establishing, in collaboration with the Go-to-Market team, a comprehensive collaboration framework to accelerate innovation, evidence generation, and real-world adoption.

The Collaboration Lead – Digital Health Collaborations plays a central role in operationalizing and scaling this framework. The role ensures that collaborations are effectively scoped, executed, and monitored—driving impact for customers and Roche, while accelerating innovation and adoption of AI-enabled digital health solutions in real-world settings.

The Role

• Drives the end-to-end orchestration of digital health collaborations from a framework and headquarters perspective across all collaboration categories, in close partnership with in-country and regional digital business managers who are accountable for customer success.
• Drives scoping, alignment, and execution monitoring of collaboration programs across internal and external stakeholders
• Acts as a central integrator across Go-to-Market, Data Science, Evidence, Medical, and other engaged teams across Roche Information Solutions (RIS) & Roche Diagnostic Solutions (RDS), and Roche Pharma
• Ensures collaborations deliver measurable outcomes in innovation, evidence generation, adoption, and value realization
• Coordinates activities of collaboration managers supporting specific programs without direct line management responsibility
• Serves as a key operational partner to DTHI & GTM leadership in scaling the collaboration model globally, including supporting contracting and compliance alignment to enable scalable and compliant collaboration execution

Duties

Collaboration Strategy Execution & Program Orchestration

• Translate the Digital Health Collaboration Framework into actionable programs
• Support the definition of collaboration scope, objectives, and success metrics aligned with product and strategic priorities through setting up and leading multi-disciplinary collaboration squads
• Ensure alignment between customer needs, Roche capabilities, and internal priorities
• Drive structured program planning, including resource alignment, timelines, and deliverables
• Provide functional leadership to other collaboration leads, coordinating activities, aligning priorities, and ensuring the successful delivery of strategic partnership objectives through coaching, mentorship, and influence.

Scoping & Opportunity Development

• Collaborate with GTM, R&D teams (e.g. Data Science, Engineering, Medical, UX, HFE, AI), regional teams, and customer stakeholders to identify and shape collaboration opportunities
• Support the development of program scope definitions, project proposals, and initial business cases
• Ensure feasibility across technical,