People & Culture Business Partner - Roche Pharma

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections,  where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Roche Pharma India is a fully fledged Roche Country Organization headed by a General Manager, operating across India in a unique cluster-based operating model. This fit-for-purpose model is aligned to realize the huge potential in India that is waiting to be unlocked. Roche India envisions a future role to truly serve patients in India and help uplift and transform the health system. Roche prides itself on bringing first-in-class/ best-in-class products to the market, and India is one of the most important markets to bring its gold-standard portfolio to. Roche India is an organization with just over 300 employees and has yearly sales of approximately CHF 160 million with an aspiration to serve 10x the number of patients by 2035. Every employee at Roche India strives to achieve a triple win (for patients, for the health system, and for Roche) and truly lives up to the ethos of “Doing Now What Patients Need Next”.

Roche India is part of Roche Group with more than 100,000 employees across the globe dedicated to advanced 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 globally. 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.

As the People & Culture (P&C) Business Partner for Roche Pharma India, you will:

Act as the vital catalyst, rallying all other P&C chapters around the business priorities and P&C strategy. While this is an individual contributor role, it requires the mindset of a strong and highly influential business leader and entrepreneur. You will thrive by accomplishing things through others and living agility in all its facets.

Key Responsibilities

• Influence & Trust: You must have the ability to influence with courageous authenticity, build trust with individuals at all levels, and challenge the status quo when appropriate without relying on formal reporting lines.

• Coaching: You will act as a trusted strategic partner, a credible activist, and a coach to creative leadership and the country leadership team. You will engage in honest, authentic, and open dialogue at all levels to unlock the greatness in our people and organization.

• Strategic Alignment: You will translate business strategy into P&C strategies for the leadership areas and drive fit-for-purpose implementation and pull-through.

• Organizational Transformation: You will be a key enabler of organizational transformation, advancing organizational design and effectiveness, including driving shifts in mindset, behaviors, and ways of working.

• Data-Driven Culture: You will focus on data-driven insights to inform your actions and the overall P&C strategy, aiming to create a high-performance, integrity-driven culture where employees can thrive.

Who You Are

• Experienced Professional: You bring 10+ years of broad, progressive HR management or consulting experience in international business environments, recognized for best-in-class HR practices.

• Handles complexity well, can handle multiple tasks and initiatives at the same time - can prioritise and organise your own and the P&C team's time and energy into the most important topics in service of our outcomes.  You are someone who can stay calm in chaos and approach charged topics with maturity and objectivity, and propose solutions that are in the best interests of the organisation and our outcomes

• Systems Thinker: You possess systems thinking and a proven ability to work effectively across multiple business areas, teams, and key leadership networks in a fast-paced environment.

• Purpose-Driven: You take a genuine interest in people, create REAL connections, and have a strong purpose—loving to see the business succeed as a result of focusing on people and customers. You are interested in making an impact at an affiliate and global level, and are open to long-term international career development.

• Educated Communicator: You hold a Bachelor's or University degree in Human Resources (an advanced degree is preferred). You have strong written and verbal communication skills. Fluent English is a must, and knowledge of Hindi is a plus. Requirements: 

• Experience in the healthcare or pharmaceutical industry is highly preferred.

• This role will require you to travel 25-30% of your time as we are a large organisation spread across India.  

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.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.