The Position
At Roche, 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, and we are fearless in both making decisions and taking 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.
In the context of the recent transformation, there are several initiatives within Clinical Operations to ensure alignment and efficiencies of processes and ways of working utilizing the agile principles bearing in mind the regulated environment our organization operates within.
The position is funded for 12 months.
In this position, you will:
Support the Project Management of the alignment initiatives following agile principles. Initiative should follow agiles principles and outputs should also have the agile concepts as a foundation,
Support the establishment of an agile and central activity tracking and management structures.
Drive communication plan for the alignment project, proposing innovative strategies to ensure synergies between the working groups are being leveraged and dependencies are considered and stakeholders informed.
Who you are:
You are an ambitious MBA student who is enthusiastic about understanding agile concepts and how this can be applied in a regulated environment. You are currently enrolled in an MBA (or similar) program.
Job Competencies:
Strategic Agility: Considers the department strategy when identifying the best approach/solution to use. Plan, prioritize and adapt to changing project needs; Adopts strategies that will allow consistency, continuity, and expandability.
Communication: Concise, timely, and fluent with their communication with Stakeholders. Listens attentively, forms an opinion, speaks up, and challenges/champions as appropriate.
Engagement: Engaging leadership style enables colleagues to feel empowered, take ownership and deliver outstanding results.
Thriving with ambiguity: Comfortable working with ambiguous and complex information and synthesizing it into clear and concise points of view to influence decision making and action-taking.
Achieving Results: Capable of high complexity problem-solving.
To be considered, please send us your complete application merged into one PDF including:
A Motivation Letter (including desired start date & duration)
CV, containing links to at least one open-source project that we can access
A certificate of enrollment (if you are currently studying)
Due to regulations non-EU/EFTA citizens must provide a certificate from the university stating that an internship is mandatory as part of the application.
Who we are
At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we've become one of the world's leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.
Basel is the headquarters of the Roche Group and one of its most important centres of pharmaceutical research. Over 10,700 employees from over 100 countries come together at our Basel/Kaiseraugst site, which is one of Roche`s largest sites. Read more.
Besides extensive development and training opportunities, we offer flexible working options, 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees also benefit from multiple services on site such as child-care facilities, medical services, restaurants and cafeterias, as well as various employee events.
We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and strive to identify and create opportunities that enable all people to bring their unique selves to Roche.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
