Lead, Digital Healthcare Transformation

Please Note: This role requires the ability to work on site 3 days per week per company policy.

The annual salary range for this role is $120,000-140,000 in New York.

The World Economic Forum, committed to improving the state of the world, is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.

The Forum engages the foremost political, business and civil society leaders to shape global, regional and industry agendas. The Forum’s Centre for Health and Healthcare works to identify and scale up solutions for more resilient, efficient, and equitable healthcare systems to deliver the best possible care and keep global populations healthy, happy, and thriving.

Why we are recruiting

The flagship Digital Healthcare Transformation (DHT) Initiative, launched in 2024, is a global public-private platform for systems change in health; our mission is to unlock the full potential of digital health, health data, and AI by catalysing global collaboration and converting ambitions into real-world impact.

To support the ambition of the DHT initiative, the World Economic Forum has established three core engagement tracks: (1) “Insights” to accelerate knowledge sharing via its global public-private community, advancing thinking on key innovations & enablers for digital health; (2) “Ecosystem Shaping” to provide a neutral public-private and cross-industry platform to advance collaboration on policies, incentives, and digital health business models across key markets (primarily US, Europe, Asia); (3) “Pathfinders” to engage key stakeholders in specific regions to highlight global exemplars of digital health excellence and accelerate collaboration and common threads.

Role Overview

The Lead, Digital Healthcare Transformation, will play a central role in delivering the Pathfinder engagement track of the Digital Healthcare Transformation initiative. Working closely with the Digital Healthcare Transformation team, this role is responsible for driving strategic direction for the Pathfinders.

This role will work to evaluate and potentially establish a global Pathfinder network to build on relationships and synergies between the Pathfinders and other relevant efforts associated with the initiative.

Additionally, this role will also provide capacity to carry forward the Forum’s Outcome-Based Care (OBC) initiative which is closely tied to the enablement of health data as foundational to drive forward the evolution of new health models such as prevention and outcome-based healthcare.

Reporting Lines and Interactions

This position will report to the Head, Health Systems Transformation.

The successful candidate will work internally with other colleagues from across the Centre for Health and Healthcare, other relevant Centres, regional government relations teams, and account and partner development teams.

Externally, this role will develop relationships with leaders and experts in Forum partner companies, knowledge partners and other stakeholders including governments, international organizations, civil society, and experts in global and digital health.

Main responsibilities

• Strategic Support, Pathfinder Engagement Track Leadership, and Execution
  • Support the Head, Health Systems Transformation in refining strategy, priorities and narratives for the Pathfinder engagement track and the Outcome-Based Care initiative. This includes monitoring key trends in achieving digital health adoption at scale, emerging digital health models and capabilities, and adapting partner strategies and approaches as needed.
  • Lead core Pathfinder engagement track and Outcome-Based Care activities from design through delivery, translating strategic priorities into concrete plans, milestones and outputs. Manage interdependence across Pathfinders and related workstreams to ensure coherence, focus and momentum.
• Content Development and Insight Generation
  • Lead the development of high-quality knowledge products, including strategic frameworks, reports, briefs, video content, blueprints and other practical knowledge sharing tools.
  • Synthesize diverse expert and member inputs into clear, decision-relevant insights for senior leadership engagement through communications, engagements, and convenings.
• Stakeholder Engagement, Orchestration, and Facilitation
  • Directly shape the community composition and positioning of the Pathfinder and Outcome-Based Care partners within the Digital Healthcare Transformation initiative and with key relevant external stakeholders.
  • Building and managing strong working relationships on behalf of the initiative.
  • Facilitate working groups, workshops and expert discussions, enabling constructive dialogue and collaboration.
• Project Management and Coordination
  • Manage timelines, risks and dependencies across multiple parallel Pathfinder and Outcome-Based Care workstreams. Coordinate closely with internal Forum teams and external partners to ensure effective delivery.

To Be Successful in This Role, You Should

• Structure ambiguous problems into clear narratives, communications, workplans, outputs and decisions. Be comfortable working across strategy, analysis and execution in parallel.
• Facilitate constructive dialogue among diverse and senior stakeholders.
• Manage multiple initiatives and timelines without compromising quality.

Preferred requirements and experience

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in public health, health policy, technology, international relations or a related field.
• 7+ years of relevant professional experience in healthcare, digital health, consulting, policy or innovation-focused roles.
• Experience managing complex initiatives or portfolios involving multiple stakeholders and workstreams.
• Solid understanding of digital health ecosystems and how they influence and shape emerging health system policies, business models and operating dynamics.
• Strong analytical, writing and facilitation skills, with experience producing senior-level outputs.
• Strong relationship building skills to quickly establish trust, credibility, and transparency with key public and private sector stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently while maintaining alignment with broader strategy.
• Experience working across public and private sector contexts, understanding and aligning priorities towards common goals.
• Prior experience with international organizations, global initiatives or multi-stakeholder platforms is an asset.

Why join us?

Join an independent and impartial organization with over 55 years of connecting leaders to make sense of global challenges and move the world forward together.