Business partner information
Our partners play an important role as enablers of our sustainable growth and overall success.
We expect high standards of performance and integrity of our business partners
All transactions by Roche with business partners are made on the basis of quality, competitive prices, suitability, sustainability and integrity. Roche seeks to establish mutually beneficial, long-term relationships with its business partners based on these principles.
We understand business partners as any third party supplying goods to Roche and/or performing services for or on behalf of Roche, such as by example suppliers, agents, distributors, contract research organizations (CRO), contract manufacturers, service providers, licensers, licensees, healthcare professional and healthcare organizations.
Roche provides a template presentation on the compliance training of Business Partners, which highlights our key expectations.
Roche further provides information regarding due diligence on external business partners and our key expectations in this area. These key expectations include amongst others an assessment on human rights.
Contact details
Help, advice and complaints
Chief Compliance Officer
Pascale Schmidt
Business Partners are encouraged to seek help and advice in regard of the implementation of the Roche Group Code of Conduct as well as report a non-compliant situation which they face in connection with a Roche business.
Working with suppliers to create sustainable value
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Sustainability is a core element of Roche's strategy and central to Procurement's purpose of delivering long-term value for the company and our patients.
One of the key ways Procurement does this is by collaborating with our suppliers to find solutions for some of the world’s most pressing problems. We do this by building sustainability solutions on a foundation of data, partnership, and effective risk management.
This approach enables us to collaborate with our suppliers while keeping sustainability at the core of
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our endeavors and their outcomes.
We use risk management to assess suppliers for financial fitness, environmental stewardship, and protection of human rights. A focus on short-term profit cannot deliver sustainable outcomes for the planet and for humanity.
Humans cannot continue exploiting the planet’s resources in ways that too often result in great societal injustice and inequality. We must manage our business so it proactively contributes to social and environmental transformation.
Responsible suppliers and management of
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supply throughout the value chain is central.
Roche Procurement-driven sustainability initiatives include helping our suppliers transition to 100% renewable energy — reducing greenhouse gas emissions — developing environmentally friendly methods to recycle medical waste, and partnering with our logistics providers to ensure countries provide safe rest stops for truck drivers.
Sustainability is an integral part of how we do business — but we can always learn and improve.
As a company, we have the power to make a positive
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impact on the world’s most pressing problems, while delivering long-term value for our patients across the planet.
Procurement supports Roche in doing now what patients need next — by delivering value beyond savings, by driving sustainability in the communities where our patients live.
It is our duty to ensure we take measures wherever possible to make positive change — and we are committed to supporting our suppliers to do the same.
There is no Planet B.
Procurement supports Roche in doing now what patients need next by delivering value beyond savings, driving sustainability in the communities where our patients live. We are committed to supporting our suppliers to do the same. There is no Planet B.
Anti-Corruption Compliance
Useful examples and templates supporting you with the assessment of your own business partners:
Supplier Code of Conduct e-learning program
We offer an e-learning program to help our suppliers and service providers increase their knowledge and understanding of the Roche Supplier Code of Conduct and of industry standards for sustainability.