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Rutger Verburg from Amsterdam to Mannheim

"Riding a bicycle in Germany is really life-threatening" - Rutger Verburg talks about his start in Germany and especially at Roche, how he dealt with the challenges in a foreign country and what makes working at Roche so attractive.

Meet: Frederik Just

Frederik Just is 31 years old. He started his career at Roche in the Diagnostics Global Divisional Controlling department in Basel. There Frederik supported the Headquarter Controlling and as Finance Business Partner Personalised Healthcare (PHC). He has been Business Controller at Roche Diabetes Care Germany since August 2018.

Treffen Sie Sonja Grill

“Das besondere an meiner Arbeit ist, dass ich in ganz unterschiedliche Projekte involviert bin, die große Teile des diagnostischen Bereichs abdecken. Mit Hilfe von data science und statistischen Techniken arbeite ich an klinischen Studien für diagnostische Tests und unterstütze bei Behördeneinreichungen.”

Meet Marty

For over a year now, Martin contributes to pushing Personalised Healthcare forward. He shares his experiences and his continuous motivation here.

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Internationality as a success factor

For twelve months Eva Lenz-Nelis from the Market Access team in Grenzach, and Michele Melhem, Product Strategy team for Neuroscience and Rare Diseases in Basel, are working in each other’s roles. They share their experiences here.

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Meet: Daniela Maisel

For Daniela Maisel it has always been clear: no job is not a possibility for her - but without a family it is also not possible. As a mother of two small children, she talks about her daily work as a mother, how she is simultaneously advancing her career and that good organisation is her personal recipe for success.

Meet Thia, Software Development Manager in Tucson, AZ

" I'm working a little out of my normal "techie" introvert comfort zone, and that's been a very good thing."

Meet Iliàs-Georgia, Group Leader Digital Health at Roche

I grew up and went to school in Greece, left when I was 17 to study Molecular Biology and Genetics in the UK. After spending a few years in postgraduate research, I realised I wanted to have a more immediate impact on battling disease.

Meet Astou Gaye, Pharma Technical Quality (PTQ) Mississauga Site Head

I started my career with Genentech (our US pharmaceutical headquarters in South San Francisco) in a two-year rotational program.

Reverse mentoring

„Reverse Mentoring is when Seniors begin to learn from Juniors.“

Divers backgrounds

„Roche Pharma for me is an amazing organization with so many divers areas of work“, so Leslie, sales REP in Berlin.

Meet Tim Neuendorf

"Our field workers are truly extraordinary colleagues" - Tim Neuendorf talks about his start at Roche as a dual student, the challenges the field force is facing and his role as project manager for complex full automation projects in Germany.

Andreas Schmitz becoming Head of Human Resources at Roche Diagnostics

"I am inspired by these super dedicated and very talented people who give their best every day."

Meet Viviane, RiSM intern at Roche

I am in the final semester and writing my master’s thesis based on my internship in Formulation R&D Oral Dosage Forms. This internship is part of the Roche Internship in Small Molecules Programme (RiSM) and gives me a valuable insight into formulation development of oral dosage forms.

A rose by any other name… Anne Marie Hayes

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Go live - „Activity Based Working“!

"Where your voice is valued" - your own workstation, flexible workstations, open-plan office, creative zones or would you prefer "home office"? Our site in Waiblingen has launched a new pilot project to find out which concept best suits to their employees - because in the end the majority decides.

Report "FIT" Week

In order to find out how to communicate correctly and why good communication is of great importance (...) around 70 apprentices and dual students set off for the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm.

Meet Ebru, RiKO intern at Roche

Hi, my name is Ebru, and I am from the Schwabenländle in Germany. I am studying pharmaceutical engineering at the Albstadt Sigmaringen University of Applied Sciences and am about to graduate with a bachelor's degree.

Meet David, RiSM intern at Roche

Hi, my name is David, and I’m from Germany. I’m studying bio- and chemical engineering (master’s) at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. My interest in pharmaceuticals and healthcare in general, started back in my bachelor’s, when I was studying bioengineering.

Meet Yin Cai

Follow your passion because it's the source of your motivation!" - Yin Cai gives insights into her work as a leader, her leadership style and her viewpoints around work-life balance and "successful working days.

Cultural change and new business models - Digitisation in the German Diagnostics Sales Organisation

At Roche Diagnostics Germany, digitisation is a journey of the organisation, which has been ongoing since 2016. Since 2019, the Digital Business Lab drives digital initiatives forward in an agile process.

Meet Nives

I started my career in vaccine manufacturing after studying Biochemistry at Ryerson University in Toronto. This is where my passion for drug manufacturing started.

Special moments at Roche

Find out here what personal highlights Roche employees experienced

Christina Wang’s journey with Roche

I started my Roche journey on June 18, 2018 as a new member of the Global Procurement team, which is a new team to the Mississauga office. I was welcomed with open arms and encouraged to learn all Roche has to offer!

As a physician in the Pharma Industry?

Learn from ten medical affairs physicians from Roche in Grenzach why they decided to go into the pharmaceutical industry and what motivates them to stay there.

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Meet Javier Jimenez Roda

Converting an idea into reality is a rollercoaster of emotions, frustrations and hope. Accept this fact and push for it.

Live well. Find your balance.

In terms of the global motto "Live well. Find your balance. ", more than 140 Roche sites around the world work together to make their employees' health and well-being strong.

One week "we in the process"

Under the motto "We in the process", we have started with the entire second year of training of the Mannheim and some trainee colleagues from Grenzach for a week in the Center Park Hochsauerland in Medebach.

Meet Patricia, RiKO intern at Roche

I’m a 20-year-old undergraduate in the field of molecular and technical medicine and I come from the Black Forest, Germany. This is my first internship in the pharmaceutical industry.

Meet Giulia

My incredible HR Perspectives journey started in September 2018, when I relocated to sunny Basel to join Roche within the Global Talent Innovation team.

Recruiting at Roche - My Impressions as an Intern

„Wonder how I liked my internship?” Valerie Mangei reports on her time as an intern in HR Talent Acquisition.

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Why you fit perfectly in the pharmaceuticals industry as business economist

During my Trainee Program at Roche I have strongly developed from the professional as well as the methodology perspective.

Meet Marco Jenzsch

"Walk the talk, and talk the walk!" is the motto of Marco Jenzsch, which he would like to give to every prospective manager on his way and means as much as: "Be authentic by doing what you say: no empty promises!

Meet María Sierra

A three-month stay at Roche seemed to be totally boring to me. But it turned out and I found here something that I was not expecting: a company very focused on the development and well-being of its employees, a home and a family.

Meet Nadim, Intern in Change Management at Roche

My work helps Roche to manage change. There are a lot of internal changes and I am helping people to get comfortable with new situations. To successfully implement change, you have to organise training that is specifically geared to meeting new challenges and improving employees’ skills.

On a great journey: 6 countries, 20 weeks, countless memories

You need courage, trust in yourself and the people for such a journey. "Being alone was never frightening, but rather enriching. I have learned a lot about myself and it has shown me how much power I actually have and what I can do."

Meet Mario Henke

Since his school days, Mario Henke has always been enthusiastic about discovering new things. After many eventful years at home and abroad, he now works for Roche as the Head of Pharmaceutical Production at Europe's largest biotech site: Penzberg.

Caryn’s Top Five Secrets to Success

Caryn was recently asked to provide her opinion on what makes someone successful at Roche and she has shared her top five tips with us.

6 questions to Magdalena and Rejna

As interns in Global Supply Chain Management at Roche Diagnostics in Mannheim, they report on their exciting day-to-day work and...

Roche has always been in a state of dynamic flux

What is happening at the moment in science is great for patients, great for physicians but also great for us who are developing medicinal products.

Knowing today what will work tomorrow

Two data experts reveal how expertise can help thousands of people lead better lives - for example, by developing a dashboard that already knows today which drugs will cure tomorrow.

The person at the centre of work

"Question again and again what is important for you in life!"

Onboarding at Roche

“I was directly included by everyone.”

Profession with a view: Knowing what the future will bring.

"Never avoid failure. Be more courageous!"

A day in the life of a Digital Innovation Manager

"Creating more contact points through the digital world."

Better understanding the needs of physicians and patients

"We apply ourselves day by day to our mission ‘Doing now what patients need next’!"

​Meet Emanuel Hurni

I was drawn to the opportunity where I could translate complex systems into intuitive user interfaces in an environment, where state-of-the-art technology is used to improve the lives of patients and healthcare professionals.

My First Time with Mobile Working

Never tried mobile working before? We talked to Bektas Uenal from the production department at Roche in Mannheim about his first experience with mobile working.

Meet Thorsten Haane

Every day, Thorsten Haane pursues his passion for gastronomy as the Head of Production of Roche's Casino Operations. His goal is not only to provide the people at the site with food, but also to provide them with a platform for optimal nutrition and enjoyment in everyday working life.

Meet Alberto

In a traditional IT company, you can only grow as a technician, but in Roche you are given the opportunity to grow in both, technically and form a soft skill perspective.

Auch mal den Finger heben, wenn andere schon weiter sind

orausschauend – damit ließe sich wohl auch am treffendsten beschreiben, welche Strategie Max Putzenlechner in seinem Arbeitsalltag bei Roche erfolgreich macht. Erfahren Sie, was Mut beim Mountainbiken mit der Pharmaindustrie verbindet.

Life lessons from living abroad

I am grateful for having had the amazing opportunity to live abroad. Upon my return to Canada, the local commercial affiliate recognized my contributions, and I am now an Organizational Effectiveness Manager in HR, supporting all of Canada.

Roche really do a lot for their employees

Scientific work, international teams and a specific benefit for patients – this is what Dr. Evelyn Stuwe likes about her work as HTA Manager at Roche. Apart from this she also reveals in the interview why one has very good career opportunities in her occupation.

Meet Andreas Wohlrath

I find it important to accompany employees in setting realistic goals. I see supporting them in this and promoting their strengths as a crucial part of my work. A good manager should also understand how individual colleagues work together in a team, what their expectations are and what happens on the interpersonal level. On this basis, responsibility in the team can best be shared.

Meet Vivien

Thanks to the programme, I have had the opportunity to work in Roche’s global, regional and affiliate teams across different diagnostics business areas. The excitement of being able to learn and try something new every day is what gets me out of bed in the morning!

Meet David

Well… to be honest, I cannot say I’ve had typical days in my team. I can have more or less workload but each day happens something that surprises me.

Meet Aijing

Roche cares about the wellbeing of its employees. There is a swimming pool, a fitness centre, yoga courses and other fitness facilities on site. People can work in a flexible way, including working from home. Managers care about their employees’ career development.

Meet Jara

Read more about the Start-Up Program and its highlights and challenges for Jara.

Meet Laura

Knowing that patients are put first makes me feel proud to work at Roche.

Meet Krzysztof

People here are amazing - everyone takes time to listen to others, peoples’ opinions are valued and every individual is encouraged to express their own point of view. This diversity is one of our biggest strengths.

Meet Paulina

My work helps Roche to shed light on the fundamental pathogenic mechanisms of multiple sclerosis (MS) and has the potential to identify some new drug targets that Roche can develop in the future.

Meet Edgar

Roche is a place that encourages employees to grow and learn and offers employees great internal career opportunities.

Introductory Week for 2018 Apprentices

On Monday, 3 September at 8 AM, we – the 2018 apprentices from the Roche site Mannheim – met to start into our introductory week.

Meet Hillary

​​Meet Hillary, a science teacher gaining real-world industry experience at Roche.

Welcome to the three-border triangle

I'm from the region and I really enjoy staying here

Physician stand-in as part-time job: Door into the practice

At Roche I can live out my need for diversity.

Leading a Team

I can't be an expert in every area – only in a team are we very strong.

It’s a Match!

A lot of things in life have to fit: job, outfit, partner and this does not only apply to love life! It also has to "match" in digital mentoring, a programme run by Roche in Mannheim and Penzberg, where colleagues help each with digital tools.

​Meet Yunfei

I chose to stay because I was inspired by the vision of Roche Sequencing leadership team and firmly believed that sequencing and informatics will redefine the future of medicine.

Meet Rebecca

What interested me in Roche’s Business Perspectives Program was the genuine purpose, fast-paced, changing environment and international setting of this global development programme and the opportunity to complete rotations in four different countries and learn about their functions and needs.

Meet Michaela

My work helps Roche to bring new, reliable Point of Care solutions to the market, directly to the patient’s bedside, to enable health care professionals to make the right decision in critical and life-threatening situations when time matters most.

Roche experiments with start-up approach

"Digitization offers many opportunities for us," says Jan Schreiber. The prerequisite is that employees are taken along and familiarized with new working methods and technologies. This is why the Digital Acceleration Program was launched in 2017.

Meet Felipe

At work, we have implemented a very flexible working model that allows me to work in different buildings, giving me the freedom and opportunity to organise my meetings better and improve my interactions with colleagues.

Meet Muriel

Having fun doing the job and having fun at work in parallel – we’re a super awesome team in our department and beyond that, too. We stick together when things get stressful, we support everyone who needs help and we laugh a lot, which boosts motivation.

Meet Marius, RiSE intern at Roche

The RiSE program offers internships specifically for doctoral students within the Roche research department.

Reconciling Work and Family Life

It's school vacation time. This can quickly raise the question: what to do with the offspring? Roche offers various options for this. Learn more about the Roche vacation program and other great benefits for parents and children!

Meet Dominique

When I am at work, I know why I am there and what I want to achieve. When I am at home, I am proud of what I did or what my colleagues achieved, and to be able to share this with my family and friends.

Meet Daniel

We have seen how our total lab automation solutions have revolutionised the approach to diagnostics, especially in remote locations in the country. Seeing these stories in real life fuels the passion of our entire Roche team in Norway.

Meet Isabelle

My job helps to improve patients’ lives because we strive to ensure that life-saving and innovative medicines become available to our patients. In doing so we work with German government systems to find the best way forward.

Meet Richard

In my experience, Roche is a company that really provides the support its workforce need to learn and grow professionally. I started with Roche on an internship course 6 years ago and since then I’ve had the chance to work in 3 different roles and even move countries

Sailing the European Coast

I saw the Long-term Account as an option to give myself the freedom for all the plans I have forged in my life.

Get Creative & Stay Curious

After graduating from high school, Sabine initially wanted to study economics at the university. She tells her own very personal story about which path she actually took.

Meet James

I love epidemiology, which is the art of understanding how certain factors affect health, but I’m equally passionate about the continual advances in the technology and methods. This attracted me to Roche.

Even more space for many children

In July 2018 the company-own day-care centre "ideenReich", costing 3.3 million euros, was inaugurated by Roche in Grenzach. With the extension the day-care centre offers care places for up to 65 children with flexible opening hours and only few closed days.

Meet Sarah

My research passion lies at the intersection of neurobiology and high-resolution imaging. My ambition is to develop and use new technologies and modalities for investigating pathological mechanisms underlying brain degenerative conditions to ultimately help develop better ways to monitor and treat disease.

My first year as leader at Roche

Suddenly you are standing alone at the head of a team, in the focus of attention: Is it time to take control as alpha wolf? Not for Lukas Berger, who in his first year as Marketing Director Respiratory Diseases at Roche above all placed his emphasis on: Listening and trust. In the interview he explains why good leaders are not lone warriors and which mantra had accompanied him through the first twelve months.

​Meet Ariel

A Software Technical Writer, dog-mom, creative thinker, and lover of all things innovative.

Meet Barbara, Senior Specialist ADV

I feel really proud to be part of Roche that provides me the opportunity to work in a multicultural environment and let me grow both professionally and personally. My role of Customer Advisor gives me the chance to develop my communication skills and have a better knowledge about the business needs.

Meet Waltraud, Chair Clinical Research Fellowship Program (CRFP) and Senior Clinical Scientist

Preclinical and clinical drug development is a global undertaking, and our diversity is huge. Team members come from all over the world. Working with skilled and talented people to exchange experience and ideas and to develop future treatments is great fun.

Internship Insights

An internship in HR Business - sounds interesting, doesn’t it? But what exactly is HR Business? And what does an internship in this area look like? Lisa Walther talks about her experiences as an intern in this area.

Meet Nicole

My work helps Roche employees to take a break from their workday and enjoy a delicious lunch or snacks. Our events are also great opportunities for networking and making friends at work.

Roche Charity Run - Childrens Walk 2018

Since 2003, more than 220,000 Roche employees have been participating in the Children’s Walk that is held annually across the whole world. With the donations collected, children in need were able to be supported in substantially improving their living conditions in the areas of education, nutrition, basic medical development and social development.

Leaning in @ Roche

It's great to see how the women encourage each other to achieve their goals.

​Meet Chris, Principal Talent & Org Development

When I describe career development at Roche I typically say that it is what you make of it. We have tons of resources and tools around it, but I believe it goes deeper than that. Career development is part of our culture. It is an expectation of Roche that all of our employees continuously grow and develop.

Meet Jacob, HR Perspectives at Roche

My advice for new colleagues is to stay forever curious because it is only then that you realise opportunities to grow and develop. Learning is a journey that never ends – as long as we stay curious we will always discover things we did not yet know.

Meet Amrita, Bioinformatics Research Leader at Pleasanton, CA

"The sky is the limit when it comes to learning about new domains and extending your skills."

My first year as a leader

To become a leader – is this my goal? After successfully completing her studies, Carla had to decide which professional steps to take next.

Meet Meike Treu

Diversity is the most special part of my job. Every day a new task awaits me.

We promote your leadership potential

“Intensive, constructive and appreciative.” With these few words, Yvonne Kaiser describes her involvement in the leadership workshop, which Roche organized and ran in Mannheim once again this year. Twelve external talented individuals and up-and-coming Roche executives spent two days playing leadership roles. But what does it actually mean to be a leader?

Meet Tobias Huber

I see my occupation as a chance to drive forward healthcare and medicine with the aid of technology, and to solve problems.

Meet Andrea, Supply Chain Process Support at Roche

My work helps Roche to maintain a high distribution service level to our customers in Switzerland. Our main values fostered by our management are respect towards each other, open inter-departmental collaboration, good work-life balance, as well as organisational stability.

​Meet Cheng-Yuk, Principal Scientist I at Pleasanton, CA

It is truly a diversified environment. From the interdisciplinary education to the multi-cultural workforce, I strongly believe our collective experiences and passion will drive the innovation engine to develop the next meaningful diagnostics solution for patients.

Meet Tom Glasow

"Work-life balance” is not just an empty word at Roche. I can plan my visits to our customers flexibly, and I can work partly from home.

Nuestro compromiso con el Talento Joven.

Los Programas de Prácticas de Roche Pharma España son ejemplos reales de creación de oportunidades laborales para los jóvenes profesionales.

Meet Erin

The culture is very supportive with high expectations of line managers, and opportunities to get involved in mentoring and coaching programs. I value the fact that I can drive my own career development.

The long-term perspective at Roche allows us to be courageous

At Roche we have the possibility for the long-term perspective, which allows and also requires us to be courageous.

From researcher to Medical Manager – A conclusion

I see directly what I do for the patients and this is naturally a great motivation for me.

From the clinic to the company

Although I am on a different side I work on the same goal.

CIP – ″Considerably Incredible Potential″

On March 19, 2018, it was time for the apprentices and students of the class of 2016 to head off for the ″We in the Process″ week. After having already completed two project weeks in Mainz and in Prüm, the third and last project week now took us to the Center Park in Medebach.

Meet Doreen Pruntsch

What is special for me is that safety has a very high priority in the corporation and that it also put into practice through all levels of management.

Meet Jose David

My first job related to my current professional career was in a consultancy company developing projects for BBVA. I started at Roche on 5th November, 2012. I can remember every single detail: the different people I met that day, my awful ID picture, the welcome aboard training…. Everything. The reason I applied to Roche was the challenge it posed and the aim of the company, and I liked the fact that Roche has an international working environment.

Joining Roche as a Young Professional in the area of Biotechnology and Medical Technology

Clemens Krämer joined Roche in 2007, right after finishing his studies and has been working as a Technical Project Leader Meter Development at Roche Diabetes Care in Mannheim since 2016.

#Team - "Fit for the #Team" Week

In the early morning of the 5th of March, it was off to the small town of Prüm in the Eifel for the cooperative university students and vocational trainees from Mannheim, Waiblingen and Grenzach to begin the “Fit for the #Team” Week. The main topics of the week were communication, giving and receiving feedback correctly, #team spirit and Work 4.0. and a lot of exciting group activities.

Product Launch as Marketeer

Every Marketeer works towards the moment when a product comes onto the market.

Department change as career springboard

I continuously benefit from the perspective and the overall understanding of the market, people and company.

Meet Ramin

For me, Roche is a unique and truly interesting company. We develop diagnostic products, but we are also responsible for treatments and treatment monitoring.

Working at Roche – completely under the sign of health

The well-being of our employees is something that is very important to us at Roche. Therefore the promotion of health has long-since been integrated in our everyday company life. Every day roughly 15,900 employees at the locations Grenzach, Mannheim, Penzberg, Waiblingen and Berlin develop, produce and sell innovative products for health.

Meet Helena

Roche as an employer is innovative. The company’s work environment is just as progressive as its approach to developing new medicines in its core business.

Meet Joan

Working at Roche is like being in a family. We always support and care for each other and look for solutions to move things forward.

​​​Meet Adam, Regulatory Affairs Manager at Pleasanton, CA

Every day I come to work, I honestly feel like I can make a positive impact on a global scale.

Meet Oscar

I joined Roche almost 5 years ago. My role has been evolving together with the scope of the team and it covers also webcasting technologies or design for new workplaces. My current role is Network and Facilities IT Senior Engineer.

Meet Oscar

I joined Roche almost 5 years ago. My role has been evolving together with the scope of the team and it covers also webcasting technologies or design for new workplaces. My current role is Network and Facilities IT Senior Engineer.

Meet Tina

The culture at Roche is very open and people are approachable. They take their time to listen to what others think and feel, and are always willing to help in any way they can.

Meet Christopher

I’ve always been keen on medical technology, which is why I wanted to work in this environment. What attracted me to Roche was the issue of insulin pumps in the Diabetes Care division. Simply because the focus here is on the patients.

Meet Nathanael, Regulatory Documentation Scientist at Roche

Joining Roche in July 2016 was a great opportunity to become involved in the clinical aspects of drug development as a medical writer.

Meet Dr. Hugo Lam

I was fascinated by the complexity of the human genome and the opportunity to apply my skills to solve the challenging algorithmic and data science problems in the new era of biomedicine.

Meet Lisa

On every project, there are so many different aspects to be considered. It makes me proud and happy to solve these complex puzzles.

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Lots of space for lots of children

The KiTa (day-care centre) "ideenReich (realm of ideas)" at Roche Pharma AG in Grenzach is currently being extended. The first building of the Kita 2012 was a complete success and was well accepted by the employees. But it quickly became clear that more space than was initially able to be offered will be needed.

Family and Career – at Roche that works very well!

With the birth of her son and as a senior manager, Dr. Kerstin Borgards asked herself the question three years ago: How do I strike the right balance between family and career and still also meet my own needs at the same time? She tells us that this situation calls for more than just good planning and that men don’t have it much easier in this respect either in the following interview.

Meet Célia

As Start IT trainees, we have the chance to get specific trainings and peer-coaching sessions, which enable to reflect on our learning experience. This is great and I really enjoy learning from each other.

Occupations you would not have expected to see at Roche!

Software developer, master brewer, and cellist. Would you immediately have thought of Roche when hearing the names of these occupations? No? Then you will find out something interesting. Five employees report on the exciting and unusual occupations in which they work at Roche, and on what makes these so unique.

We are all superheroes here at Roche

This sentence did catch me off guard during my personal interview, but it was then ultimately one of the reasons why I absolutely wanted the job. After all, what is better than trying out new things and in doing so, helping people at the same time?

Meet Melanie Poulin-Costello

I’m a statistician by training and have worked in the pharmaceutical industry for a long time and love what I do. I’m passionate about helping my colleagues understand statistics and how to use them wisely.

Meet Sri

I started my journey in Roche as a perspective in October, 2017. My first assignment is in the area of talent acquisition strategy for Roche Diagnostics.

Meet Jazzy

I started at Roche in October 2017 with my first assignment in Basel. For this assignment I had a dual role, as a Project Manager and as a Business Analyst for the People Project which has been rolled-out globally.

"I will remember the impressions I gained for my entire life"

Peter is one of 15 employees at the Grenzach Roche location who have participated in the first round of the newly initiated job shadowing programme. This makes it possible for employees who never or only rarely stand in direct patient contact to sit in for a day with an office-based physician or at a clinic and to experience everyday work there first hand. In the interview Peter tells us about his experiences.

Dual studies student dares to take a peek outside of the box

Joshua Dröschel is the first dual studies student at Roche in Germany who was able to participate in an exchange between Pharma and Diagnostics during the practical training. In the following he tells us about his experiences.

Graduation Party 2017

Two and a half, three or three and a half years are now behind us, and we have reached our goal. The final exams are over and all trainees and students in dual study programs of Roche Diagnostics celebrated their successful graduation on December 4, 2017 in the forum on the Mannheim works premises.

Meet Maud

We are the link between R&D that develops the IT solutions and the market voice coming from the Regions and the Country Affiliates...

Meet Juan Pablo

The position I currently hold is Messaging and Collaboration Specialist as part of End User Services. Our Team, the GMC, is in charge of maintaining, supporting and updating several collaboration tools and following them up within their lifecycle. Some of the main technologies we manage are MobileIron, RightFax, Google Mail and BestInformed, although we manage many more tools and systems within them.

Meet Denise

Roche as an employer is for sure a good choice! During my apprenticeship, I constantly felt supported to develop further, take advantage of all chances, bring in my own ideas even as a new young professional, push innovation, and focus on my career.

Meet Tom

I decided to join Roche because of its commitment to developing life-changing medicines and its industry-leading pipeline. I had also met many of the PCOR team at conferences and knew that it would be a good fit.

"DOM People Story" Part 9 with Martin Victor

Diagnostics Operations Mannheim, in short DOM, ensures the global supply of patients, laboratories and hospitals with diagnostic reagents and test stripes. To this DOM as the largest field of Global Diagnostics Operations at the locations Mannheim and Penzberg produces a large variety of products for the in-vitro-diagnostics. With this program we want to show you some people which stand behind our success with proud and motivation.

"DOM People Story" Part 8 with Michael Wolf

Diagnostics Operations Mannheim, in short DOM, ensures the global supply of patients, laboratories and hospitals with diagnostic reagents and test stripes. To this DOM as the largest field of Global Diagnostics Operations at the locations Mannheim and Penzberg produces a large variety of products for the in-vitro-diagnostics. With this program we want to show you some people which stand behind our success with proud and motivation.

Love at the workplace: Sparks in the coffee kitchen

German employees spend 46 working weeks per year in the company. We have asked couples at our German locations what connects their relationship and their employer.

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It’s International Volunteer Day!

Many employees get involved with voluntary service aside from their daily jobs, for instance as trainer officers or as part of the site fire department. Today on December 5 we celebrate the International Volunteer Day by having a look at two committed employees – Michael Schneidereit and Peter Maier, who talk about what drives them, which tasks they face and how important voluntary work is.

"DOM People Story" Part 7 with Isabel Grimm

I consider DOM and the people associated with it to be unique. Everyone brings a lot of passion and enthusiasm to the projects we work on.

"DOM People Story" Part 6 with Anne Rudolphi

Diagnostics Operations Mannheim, in short DOM, ensures the global supply of patients, laboratories and hospitals with diagnostic reagents and test stripes. To this DOM as the largest field of Global Diagnostics Operations at the locations Mannheim and Penzberg produces a large variety of products for the in-vitro-diagnostics. With this program we want to show you some people which stand behind our success with proud and motivation.

"My goal is to learn as much as possible."

Six years of studies, five years of doctorate – and still the molecular medicine scientist Mathias hasn't had enough of learning. In the interview he reveals what his everyday life as trainee looks like, and how it came about that he drank wine with the senior management after work.

Start Up Active & Alumni Meeting in Grenzach

A brief review - trainees of different sites came together in Grenzach with the theme "Roche Beyond - People, Pipelines, Products".

"DOM People Story" Part 5 with Janin Zilles

Diagnostics Operations Mannheim, in short DOM, ensures the global supply of patients, laboratories and hospitals with diagnostic reagents and test stripes. To this DOM as the largest field of Global Diagnostics Operations at the locations Mannheim and Penzberg produces a large variety of products for the in-vitro-diagnostics. With this program we want to show you some people which stand behind our success with proud and motivation.

Technology Dinner at Roche in Mannheim: “A successful evening, which definitely calls for a repeat!”

Virtual labs, fascinating talks, networking and also a good meal? These and other impressions were gathered by engineers at our Technology Dinner on the High Tech Campus in Mannheim.

Meet Christina

Roche is offering great development and learning opportunities, making employees feeling engaged and passionate about what they do. It provides a culture of sharing and a great diversity of people.

Failed! Best Practice Sharing was yesterday

Innovation means: taking the risk of failing.

Working as Product Manager: interface for everything and everyone

I especially really enjoy the unexpected. No day is like any other.

Meet Ring

Roche is a great place to work because of its diversity and inclusive culture. Everyone that I’ve met in Roche thus far has been very outgoing, helpful and willing to go extra miles in guiding and supporting me.

Meet Caitlin

The time I spend working with individual project leaders and research teams, understanding the amazingly innovative work they do, and helping them communicate their strategies and achievements, is probably the aspect I find most rewarding in my role.

Meet Matt

I think it’s hard to define a particular thing or skillset that makes you successful at Roche, as everyone is different, and that diversity in turn is what makes them, their team and Roche successful.

Meet Ricardo

For the Perspectives Programme, we’re looking for people who are in the early stages of their career (1-5 years' work experience) with a global mindset, team spirit and leadership potential. Personally, I believe sharing Roche’s values, remaining humble, and being able to adapt quickly to diverse environments are the most important elements.

"DOM People Story" Part 4 with Richard Tassoni

Diagnostics Operations Mannheim, in short DOM, ensures the global supply of patients, laboratories and hospitals with diagnostic reagents and test stripes. To this DOM as the largest field of Global Diagnostics Operations at the locations Mannheim and Penzberg produces a large variety of products for the in-vitro-diagnostics. With this program we want to show you some people which stand behind our success with proud and motivation.

Meet Pankaj

Roche stands out as an organisation for me due to their sustainability commitment. Not only there is thrust on innovation with a significant investment in R&D but also there is commitment towards building an organisation that contributes to a better society.

Business attire, casual, or possibly smart casual after all?

Fashion magazines and advice columns fall over themselves when it comes to questions about how to dress appropriately for work. Yellow is the perfect colour for a job interview, we are told. What we are not told, however, is why.

“DOM People Story” Part 3 with Rebecca Schoenlaub

Diagnostics Operations Mannheim, in short DOM, ensures the global supply of patients, laboratories and hospitals with diagnostic reagents and test stripes. To this DOM as the largest field of Global Diagnostics Operations at the locations Mannheim and Penzberg produces a large variety of products for the in-vitro-diagnostics. With this program we want to show you some people which stand behind our success with proud and motivation.

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"DOM People Story" Part 2 with Meliha Berber

Diagnostics Operations Mannheim, in short DOM, ensures the global supply of patients, laboratories and hospitals with diagnostic reagents and test stripes. To this DOM as the largest field of Global Diagnostics Operations at the locations Mannheim and Penzberg produces a large variety of products for the in-vitro-diagnostics. With this program we want to show you some people which stand behind our success with proud and motivation.

Scientific expert in the service of the patient

Writing a publication and waiting for someone to read it – this is something Kai Dittmann was no longer willing to settle for after a few years involvement in scientific work. He wished to get direct feedback and that his projects have a measurable effect. But he nevertheless did not completely want to forgo scientific work. The solution? A change to Roche Pharma AG as Medical Manager. Read more about it.

Meet Falak, Associate International Product Manager at Tucson, AZ

Collaborative. Transparent. Respectful. Inspiring. Fun. This pretty much says it all. Across all of this, there is a unifying patient centricity that drives the organization forward.

Roche Code4life 2017 University Challenge

Ready? Set. Go. Join this University Challenge and find out how coding is solving problems in healthcare.

"DOM People Story" Part 1 with Dirk Schulz

Diagnostics Operations Mannheim, in short DOM, ensures the global supply of patients, laboratories and hospitals with diagnostic reagents and test stripes. To this DOM as the largest field of Global Diagnostics Operations at the locations Mannheim and Penzberg produces a large variety of products for the in-vitro-diagnostics. With this program we want to show you some people which stand behind our success with proud and motivation.

Meet Jameil

The RiSM programme gives students the opportunity to gain work experience in the pharmaceutical industry. The programme has helped me bolster my knowledge by simply giving me the chance to work and interact with industry experts.

Meet Magdalena

Hi, my name is Magdalena, and I come from the Czech Republic. After gaining my Master’s degree in Medicine, I joined the MD PhD programme in Hemato-oncology at the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University (Prague).

Meet Natasha, Digital Marketing Analyst at Roche Pleasanton

The best advice I received that summer was, to make sure I am doing what I love or else it’s “just another day at work.”

Meet Andrea, Clinical Research Associate at Roche Pleasanton

The internship program opened my eyes to the variety of things I could do with my degree.

Teamwork – coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success!

With mixed feelings and diverse expectations, we, the new training year 2017, drove for a week to Mainz together with our trainers. The goal of the introductory week was, among other things, getting to know each other as well as strengthening the team spirit.

Meet Patrick, Product Management in the field of laboratory diagnostics at Roche in Mannheim

You are a student and you are looking for an exciting challenge with self-responsibility in marketing & product management in the field of laboratory diagnostics? Then apply now for an internship in the field of laboratory diagnostics!

Meet Claudia

Roche as an employer is motivating. It’s impressive how friendly and helpful all the employees are. This creates an inspiring and collaborative environment, which I really appreciate. People treat each other with respect.

Meet Pablo

Here in the Lean IT Centre of Excellence, I’m not having only the chance to learn, but to share my knowledge & experience with anyone who wants to embrace the lean & continuous improvement cultures.

The marketing community at Roche: Achieving more together

From the first day onwards everyone takes responsibility in his or her function.

Studying next to the profession: Support and investment in the future

Personal and professional development are very important for me. For Roche too.

Meet Marina

My typical day at work is quite varied. As a member of the Ophthalmology Discovery team, we are focused on early development programs for retinal and other ocular diseases. Translational medicine is extremely interdisciplinary, bringing together specialists from a myriad of biomedical disciplines.

Meet Mischa

It’s curious, but lunch at Roche is primarily used to network across departments and functions. It’s our contribution to innovation that employees have a tasty and healthy meal plus new insights and pleasant conversations. Every day I see people assembling in the lobby, greeting colleagues and talking to each other before having lunch together.

Meet Amanda

My work helps Roche to ensure that the instrument is available in the right quality and quantity so that we can support the diagnostic process all around the world.

Meet Helen

Roche supports a culture where employees are encouraged to give time back to their communities through volunteering as well as motivating the next generation of scientists through supporting many ambassadors of the UK STEM (Science, technology, engineering and maths) initiative and sponsoring local events, a culture and philosophy which I value.

With helmet and mouth protection into open plan office

In Japan Elisa Hahn has learnt to "read" her colleagues – because in Asian culture direct feedback is regarded as being impolite and inconsiderate. In addition she explains in the interview why she found helmet and gloves in her desk drawer and why in Japan the mail distribution lists are usually enormous.

Meet Almu Torres

I arrived seven years ago for a temporary job as a contractor and after all this time, here I am, as an employee and I don’t consider leaving the company. Roche has provided me with tools and knowledge that I couldn’t have learnt in another place in such a constructive way.

On a discovery tour with VR glasses

Maximilian Giesen is studying mechanical engineering and participating in the VDI support program Elevate. In June, he took part in training, which was organized by the VDI partner company Roche for the program participants. Maximilian reports about his day at Roche.

Meet Saliu, Lead Software Quality Assurance Analyst

Imagine scientists try to share with engineers their knowledge about science and engineers try to build tools that scientists or researchers or customers want and need. Roche fosters a culture of debate, mutual respect, and diversity as we tackle these challenges and upper management tries to hear staff and help them achieve their goals.

Meet Jeffrey

As Roche is really passionate about transforming patients' lives, I am also proud to say that we are able to assist patients indirectly by ensuring our business units get all the financial data they need in the most timely and accurate manner.

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Jochen Rewitzer – project controls in engineering at Roche

Developing new projects, encouraging innovation and the ongoing generation of new solutions – as the head of project controls, Jochen Rewitzer is the contact and manager of various interfaces that come together in a project. In this interview he talks about some of his experiences as an engineer at Roche.

Meet Nashreen

Just as the patient is important to Roche, so are its employees. Roche goes the extra mile in looking after their employees by giving them the opportunity to give back to society in the form of volunteer opportunities, fun, creative activities during the course of the day and internal learning and development opportunities.

Meet Lars

What exactly does Roche do? This was the question medical technology student Lars Fischer asked himself 1.5 years ago. At that time, he had just found out that his application for the German national scholarship program at his university was successful. Roche had decided to promote him for a year as a talented and committed student: "I already knew about Roche as a company before, but my interest in getting to know Roche as a potential future employer was first sparked by the scholarship."

Life Changing Experience

For as long as I can remember, I always wanted to be part of an initiative that would change someone’s life, but never fully had the chance to because life always got in the way. However, my dream turned into reality when I learned about the Roche Children’s Walk.

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Meet Bryan

Technology plays a very important part in Roche; from new drug discovery, manufacturing, sales and marketing to customer analytics. Technology helps to automate daily manual work, improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.

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Meet the Global HR Recruitment Team

Meet the team that spends their days browsing Facebook and LinkedIn responding to questions from people all over the world who want to join our company – Roche! The team also supports HR colleagues with efficient service, project support - and all this within a budget. The team hit the road in 2011 and working together became a unique and best team of 6: meet Brigi, Fanni, Gábor, Kata, Kriszti & Lavi as they share their journey at Roche.

Meet Mbali

I wanted to work for Roche because its values align with my personal mine. I love the fact that the company nurtures and develops its employees and recognizes that its people are its assets. Roche makes an impact socially and economically. Roche gives all employees an equal opportunity to grow in their career.

Meet Raphael

You are a student and you are looking for an exciting challenge with self-responsibility, customer interaction and travelling? Then apply now for an internship in the sales field service!

Meet Jen

I have developed many friendships over the past 5 years working here. I find Roche to be a place where diversity and inclusion is strongly valued.

Reverse Mentoring at Roche in Grenzach

Reverse mentoring is when senior leaders learn from junior employees. And it's much more than just feedback: It´s learning from each other and rethinking the mindset, ultimately leading to personal growth.

2016 Roche Children’s Walk a success thanks to dedicated and passionate employees!

On June 16, 2016, Roche Canada employees and family members participated in the annual global Roche Children’s Walk. One hundred per cent of the funds raised, along with the corporate match, will go to support the orphans in Malawi who lack the bare essentials in life, the Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada, and Habitat for Humanity GTA.

Meet Janine

Roche as an employer offers many functions at one location: Research & Development, production and site services. Roche is also one of only few companies that have its own engineering department. It is exciting to work with so many different interfaces.

Meet Thais

My work helps Roche to grow its business and to understand real customer needs for future development. All the solutions we offer are tailor-made because each customer is unique.

Avoid application faux-pas

For a successful application procedure the candidate needs predominantly to be professional qualified. But it is not alone the qualification that counts!

Roche expands footprint in Hungary

Last week saw the official inauguration of the new IT Global User Services function of the Shared Service Centre (SSC) in Budapest, Hungary. Over 100 positions have been created for qualified IT professionals to work in an environment offering development opportunities across the Roche group.

Meet François

My work helps Roche to ensure that new drugs get approved by the regulatory authorities and become accessible to patients - as soon as possible.

Meet Andrew, Microbiology Scientist at Roche Pleasanton.

This is not any old internship. There is a whole host of information that is available to someone if they have the drive and are proactive about their personal and professional development.

Meet Tony

The people who work at Roche have a real passion, courage and integrity in what they do. This is reflected to a great extent in IT, where colleagues take advantage of the technology and resources available to them to deliver real value to the Business.

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Customer Support – more than just a hotline service

Ensuring availability of the customer hotline, promoting the exchange of know-how, controlling quality of the process by using key performance indicators, and managing employees successfully – as Department Head in Roche’s Support Center, Marco Recktenwald has a wide array of tasks. During an interview, he explains what challenges his job involves, why all of his employees speak several languages and why curiosity is vital for a job in customer support.

9.700 km – From Sao Paulo to Waiblingen!

At Roche every single employee counts, is esteemed and gets the support he or she needs to reach his or her goal – this makes the company special to me!

Meet Sanae, systems engineer at Roche in Waiblingen

My work at Roche enables me to put my analytical and technical skills to specific use in a multidisciplinary, dynamic and international environment, to take on new challenges and to play an active role in shaping the future of laboratory automation – and in the process to develop solutions that anticipate patients' future needs.

Interview with Massimo, Roche Pharma

"Roche gives you the opportunity to achieve your full potential, share experience and enrich yourself"

Interview with Martina, Roche Pharma

"In my role I study how to improve the quality of life of people"

To sum up, working for Roche in Mannheim is an adventure - including all the exciting new activities I will be facing in future

Originally I come from Belgium, but I have been living and working in Germany already for three years now. Considering that learning the local language is one of the key success factors for integrating in a foreign country, I was very motivated to learn German.

Innovative marketing also means rethinking what is tried and tested

We were once again able to get our customers enthusiastic about our product in a new way.

Meet Cordula

Roche as an employer is providing a truly people-focused working environment. I will never forget how impressed I was when I joined Roche and became aware of the passion and engagement in the work of each and every colleague.

Creating Opportunities: 12 external talents, 3-day workshop & an infinite number of impressions

Leadership, leadership potential and leadership competence – terms we often come across in day-to-day work, and which have now become an absolutely integral part of job advertisements for upcoming managers. But what exactly is behind this? Roche Diagnostics chose altogether twelve Master’s degree students and doctoral students out of a large number of excellent applicants and enabled these students to participate in a three-day workshop at Roche’s site in Mannheim.

Meet Armin

Being part of the supply chain that delivers Roche’s medicinal products to patients is an incredible feeling. It motivates me to achieve even the most challenging goals to a guaranteed high standard of quality.

People focus and a pioneering spirit

Talented technologists are highly sought after in the healthcare industry. But what makes the industry attractive to software developers, data scientists, information architects, machine learning engineers, etc.? In short: The opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives and the pioneering spirit associated with that.

The best Soft-Skill-Training in the world

After last week's focus in the interview more on the job as such and the prejudices, we are more focused on skills this week.

Meet Daniel

My work helps Roche to enable colleagues all over the world to bring our solutions to the market. In my previous role as a sales representative, I was very close to the market and our customers in Germany. This close relationship to them allowed me to experience the day-to-day impact of Roche’s products. Working as an International Product Manager allows me to further improve those products.

Field force: A job between cliché and reality

"Field force work has nothing to do with canvassing", says Martina Rauschmeier from Roche Pharma AG about her job. In the interview she reveals what the task involves, what is actually true in the usual clichés and why embarrassing moments also have positive sides.

Meet Rita

Roche as an employer rightfully prides itself on embracing diversity and inclusion as a key ingredient for its success. Employees are encouraged to be genuine and authentic and unafraid to challenge the status-quo.

Meet Flora

Roche is a place where one would receive strong support from teammates, have colleagues who are sincerely helpful and always motivating, and be with a group of highly motivated people who constantly seek to aim higher for patients, the company, their team members and themselves.

Meet Noora

2017 marks my 20th year with Roche and it has been a wonderful journey. Growing with the company, experiencing the changes and seeing the achievements and the opportunities created for employee development, makes me proud to be part of Roche Malaysia.

Meet Senthil

As a Medical Scientific Liaison, I am involved in many high-leveled scientific discussions with physicians in specific therapeutic/disease areas. It is also exciting that you get to be able to meet new people and gather insights that could eventually change patients’ lives for the better.

Conheça Bruno

Bruno diz que a Roche é uma empresa única, que realmente trabalha com o propósito de melhorar a vidas dos pacientes. “Embora quem está de fora às vezes não perceba a dimensão do que é feito, estamos mudando a história de vida das pessoas, o que é apaixonante”.

Conheça Rafael

Rafael é apaixonado por viajar, aprender coisas novas, gosta de viver cercado de verde e ajudar as pessoas. A sua escolha pela área de Farmácia e Bioquímica se justifica, em partes, por isso. Futuro doutor em Doenças Tropicais e saúde internacional, ele passa seus dias estudando, buscando novas experiências e se dedicando às funções na Roche em São Paulo.

Conheça Flávia

Flávia gosta de criar vínculos com quem está ao seu redor. Possivelmente por causa disso ela decidiu atuar na área de RH. Mas, a sua escolha de trabalhar na Roche foi por causa da área de atuação da empresa e pela oportunidade de ajudar pessoas em momentos de necessidade.

Conheça Dayane

A diversidade de oportunidades, atividades, interação e ambiente de constante mudanças é o que encanta Dayane na Roche. Bem como a preocupação e o respeito da empresa por todos os funcionários.

Like Pigs in Clover

On March 13th, 2017, it was time for the trainees and students of the 2016 year to head off to the “Fit for the Team” week. After having spent a great week in Mainz about half a year ago, the anticipation was correspondingly great.

Special Support for Special Qualification

All roads lead to Rome, or to Mannheim and Penzberg, as in the case of the ten Germany's national scholarship program holders. They took up our invitation and came as guests to the "Welcome2Roche" events on both sites, where they mingled with the new employees and got the chance to experience the world of Roche at first hand.

Meet Martin

Joining Roche was a great career move for me; it makes such a difference to wake up in the morning knowing you work for a company that helps to save patient’s lives – this is the best motivator one can have!

Meet Carolina

I like working here because Roche has a creative and innovative culture, where we are encouraged to come up with new ideas to improve our work.

Meet Tonya

Global Head for Applications Services who manage a global team of about 130 people in the operations area, with team members in eight locations

Who are they looking for

Meet Cristina, hiring a Principal engineer for Network, Data, Telecom & Video Engineering Domain

Roche Indonesia Management Trainees 2017

Meet our successful 2017 MT candidates and potential Roche future leaders that will under-go this one year management trainee program. We wish them the best of luck for the beginning of their exciting career journey!

We’re after your ideas!

Ideas breed both innovations and product and process improvements, and safeguard the long-term competitiveness of Roche. As a Legal & IP manager at Roche in Waiblingen, Timo Wilhelm is constantly seeking ideas for precisely such purposes.

Meet Halka

My typical day at work is diverse, exciting and never boring. As a technical quality assurance manager, I am responsible for a team of six people, and we are basically in charge of equipment qualification, computerised system validation, and a lot of other aspects in conjunction with production, packaging and infrastructure. My work helps Roche to improve patients’ lives by ensuring that the production lines are properly set up to fill, lyophilise and pack our products.

Meet Axel

My work helps Roche to keep in touch with reality. In Marketing especially, we sometimes tend to get carried away by our own positive messages. Roche as an employer is rational and stable. With biosimilars for these top drugs on the horizon, one can most certainly trust that Roche’s values of Courage, Integrity and Passion will steer Roche successfully through this rougher sea of fiercer competition.

Meet Avril

I support the day-to-day work necessary to manage clinical trials at the country level. My typical day at work is never the same. You are free to work in the environment that best suits your working style and schedule each day. Roche Canada provides the technology necessary to work effectively and ergonomically and makes individual career development and recognition a priority.

Starting@Roche – First steps are not always the hardest

„How do I get to Roche on my first day? What will happen on that day? What am I supposed to wear? How can I imagine the site of Roche in Mannheim?“ Roche lately offers a website, which tries to answer these and even more questions.

Visión 2020. Un cambio cultural hecho entre todos y para todos

Las iniciativas de cambio necesitan el respaldo y el apoyo de un número considerable de personas, pero sobre todo necesitan que esas personas luchen por hacerlas posibles.

Meet Jacob

My first assignment was with the Global Analytics and Reporting team where I had several projects. My first project was to provide data to support a program review for the Commercial Perspectives program for the Pharmaceutical and Diagnostics Division.

Meet Jessica

It was fascinating to experience a “start-up setting” within an established organization such as Roche and how much it differs in terms of pace, priorities, and challenges.

Meet Lovette

From project manager to individual contributor to people manager, Lovette shares her career path and what being a leader means to her.

Around the World with the Screwdriver

Training colleagues in Mannheim today, dismantling medical devices tomorrow in Argentina, Brazil, Singapore or another country – by no means uncommon in the everyday working life of the Technical Product Manager Ramona Seel and her colleagues from Training & Support. During an interview, she explains what her job looks like in Global Customer Support at Roche, which project was her most exciting one and why you should have two valid passports in her job.

Meet Sharon

Meet Sharon, IT Senior Quality Specialist in Global IT Infrastructure Quality Services.

Learn about their work

Meet Maria from IT Infrastructure Operations in the Global Identity and Access Management group

GIS Madrid

This is where you will make your mark in Roche Informatics

Enmanuel, GIS Madrid Site Manager

Meet Enmanuel Zottola, the GIS Madrid Site Manager

Meet Simon

I see Roche as a great place to develop your career. This goes above and beyond a lot of “formal” programs and the great HR support we have. I also found that the drive to support people's development is deeply ingrained in the culture. You are expected to drive your own development and be proactive.

Meet Darko

Darko Mogic, I came to Canada from Serbia in 1993 and started my IT career in a tax filing software company as a developer. My wife worked for Roche as a chemist and recommended the company to me.

Meet Jennifer

I’m currently working at Roche Sequencing Solutions in Pleasanton, CA, which I like to describe as a startup within a large company. The culture here is that we all work very hard, we work efficiently, and we work intelligently.

Creating Access to Innovative Medicines

While the doctoral thesis itself is already enough of a burden for others, Esmeralda completed a further study program at the same time. Her goal: a job in the pharmaceutical industry – more precisely, at Roche. What she does there as a Trainee in Market Access and why she was happy to leave the laboratory behind for it, she explains in the interview.

Meet Weronika

Hi, my name is Weronika and I am from Poland. I studied Information Technology and finished my master’s studies at Warsaw University of Technology in 2012. I joined Roche in 2013 as a Software Developer in ADMD Warsaw. One year later I had the opportunity to join Diagnostics in Switzerland.

Construyendo una cultura de flexibilidad

Dos mujeres y un hombre. Dos madres y un padre que no han renunciado a su vida laboral y han querido luchar por lograr ese equilibro entre su espacio personal y laboral. Nos acercamos a conocer la historia de tres trabajadores de Roche España que nos cuentan su experiencia con la política de flexibilidad horaria de la compañía.

Meet Jan

Hi, my name is Jan and I’m a software developer at Roche. I grew up in central Switzerland near the beautiful city of Lucerne, which is where I live nowadays. After the Matura, the Swiss form of high school, I attended ETH Zurich and graduated with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in the field of robotics. That’s right, a mechanical engineer working as a software developer!

Docs for Industry

Für Mediziner bietet die Pharmaindustrie vielfältige Karrieremöglichkeiten. Medizinstudentin Karolina hat bei Roche ein dreimonatiges Praktikum absolviert. In einem Interview erzählt sie, wie es ihr gegangen ist und was sie aus der Zeit mitnimmt.

Between Medicine, Research and Policy

Questioning rigid structures and rules and looking behind the scenes of the day-to-day hospital system – this is what Isabel was interested in as early as during her residency. An anesthesiologist, she left hospital work for a career in industry. Today, she works at Roche Pharma AG as the Head of Market Access. She leads a team of 75 employees that shares the responsibility for reimbursement for medications in the German healthcare system. To read why people with a spine, creativity and innovative thinking are needed to thrive in this area, click here

Roche Informatics are establishing and growing IT Shared Service Centres

Roche is currently embarking on an exciting program to unify the IT Service Desk Organization into a single global function with a strong regional focus by creating new IT positions in Roche IT Shared Service Centres (SSC) in Kuala Lumpur; Budapest; and San Jose, Costa Rica. Paul Kay, Roche Global IT Recruitment, spoke with Steve Guise, Global Head of Roche Pharma Informatics, about his perspectives on Roche, the role of IT, and the importance of the new/expanded SSCs.

Meet Asiedua

Hi, my name is Asiedua. I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States. In my free time I enjoy wine tasting, cooking, hiking, and dancing. I currently live in Basel city and am surrounded by parks, restaurants, and inviting cafes.

Meet Carlos

Hi, my name is Carlos. I grew up in Havana, Cuba. In 2005, I moved with my wife and daughter to Ontario, Canada and eventually joined Roche in January 2010.

Meet David

I emigrated from Ireland in 1995 and landed in San Francisco with only a backpack, and the name and phone number of a friend's friend! I did some consulting work in the healthcare industry before joining Genentech in 1999 as a Network Engineer; that was the beginning of my exciting 15-year Biotech journey. Marriage and two kids later, life has never looked so good!

Meet Rachelle

Hi, my name is Rachelle. I am pleased to have recently joined Genentech/Roche after more than 25 years of working in academic medicine. My background is in neurology and cognitive anthropology, but my training has been applied to understanding and remediating Alzheimer’s disease.

Meet Karen

Hi, my name is Karen. I was born in England and moved to Switzerland in January 2009. My typical day at work is definitely not typical.

Meet Esteban

Hi, my name is Esteban. I am from Costa Rica. I have a degree in IT Systems Engineering and I am a certified Project Management Professional. My wife and I are really passionate about health, fitness and nature. We have three dogs: a miniature Schnauzer and two Beagles.

Global Network Operations Center at Roche

Know more about how we manage our Global Network Operations in Roche.

English in the service of science

Being open to an English understanding among work colleagues! A topic that is increasingly important in times of internationalization. Bilingualism in the company is not only important for a good international cooperation. Although a few of the employees of Roche in Penzberg come from an English speaking country, English is the official language in pharmaceutical companies. What is the role of English at Roche? Read more about this in the Spotlight Language Magazine!

Report on the Introductory Week for the New Apprentices and DHBW Students in Mainz in Early September

#MAINZIGARTIG (#unique) - this would be the appropriate hashtag for an instagram posting about the introductory week for the new apprentices and DHBW students in early september in Mainz. Read more about their experiences.

Meet Jami, Vice President of Operations for Sequencing

For Sequencing, it is a place where we get to establish a new foundation of making a difference through people for our patients. All of our decisions have an impact.

Internship Program at Roche Pharma Indonesia

Roche Pharma Indonesia recently opened the first batch of internship program in June 2016 for university students to get their hands on real world work experience. Our HR team had the chance to have chat with the participants on their last day of the program, and here’s what they have to say about Roche.

Roche Indonesia 2nd Career Day 2016

Roche Indonesia has just participated in one of the biggest university career fairs in the country on 28 - 30 October 2016, at Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB), West Java, Indonesia. This is by far our most successful career day, with a total of 2253 Roche booth visitors, and more than 2000 CVs received from only 3 days!

Meet Borja and the Project Management Team

Our team mission is to drive and deliver excellence in project planning & execution, with planned , predictable and improving performance.

Meet Ismael

Head of Delivery & Process Operation, who leads a team that works for the continual improvement of the life of the organization and taking care that IT Operations is fulfilling all the compliance and quality rules.

Meet Pietro

Head of Secure Access Services, who leads the global team that is responsible of operating and maintaining various enterprise technologies regarding Security and Identity and Access Management in Roche.

Seeing as much of the world as possible has always been my goal.

Thanks to Roche, the chance to realize this “travel bug” in my professional environment is incredibly motivating. I was immediately seized by the desire to make use of this opportunity! However, it was also clear to me that this could not be taken for granted and that corresponding personal initiative was necessary. I was more than prepared to take this step for what one gets.

El "making-of" de la innovación

Los beneficios de este fármaco se traducen directamente en calidad de vida.

Roche y la RSC: en el core del negocio

Compromiso con el entorno

Roche Diagnostics Recognized for Commitment to Workplace Diversity and Inclusion in the Middle East at Annual Women in Leadership Economic Forum

Creating a diverse workplace where everyone is valued and has an equal opportunity to grow and develop has proven to positively influence a company’s culture, performance and profitability.

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Meet Andrew from the UK

We have created a series of interviews with foreigners in our international team. It is a great chance to know each other more and better. Moreover, they have prepared 10 interesting facts about their countries. So, grab a spoon and let’s discover the world we live in with Roche! First part - Andrew from the UK

Meet Sheila M.

We develop target enrichment solutions for next-generation sequencing. The people here are phenomenal, and some of the best I’ve ever worked with.

Meet Pratir D.

I am currently the Business Development Intern in the Integration and Alliance Management team working on preparing Roche Sequencing Solutions for their upcoming corporate internal audit.

Meet Moritz

Hi, my name is Moritz. I grew up in Mainz in Germany, a city similar in size to Basel and located about 30 km west of Frankfurt/Main. I studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Bingen and completed my degree in Bioinformatics in 2007.

Evento Acércate: Buscando el talento

Roche, empresa farmacéutica líder en el sector: ¡busca talentos como tú! Con el Evento Acércate, Roche pretende acercar el trabajo diario de sus oficinas a los futuros talentos de este sector. Pasando por diferentes departamentos, aprenderás todo el trabajo que se realiza para que el fármaco llegue a los pacientes.

Roche Indonesia’s Career Day

On 10 & 11 May 2016, Roche Indonesia’s Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding Team participated on the first career fair in 2016 at Gadjah Mada University, Jogjakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. We engaged with hundreds of enthusiastic booth visitors, both graduates and experienced individuals who were interested in joining our organization.

Meet Dale

Although I live in New Jersey now, I am from a small town in Vermont where I developed an affinity for the outdoors and a bit of adventure. Upon completion of my studies at the university and officer training, I received a commission in the U.S. Army and served for more than 25 years. I performed multiple roles in all three Army components (Active, Reserve and the National Guard) culminating a very gratifying career as a Colonel.

Meet Alvin

I was born and raised in the Bay Area. I was also educated locally at UC Berkeley, in which I studied Molecular Cell Biology (emphasis in Neurobiology) and Computer Science. Fortunately, with Roche, I was able to live and explore the world in countries like Switzerland, New Zealand, and Germany for years and months at a time.

Meet Irene

Hi, my name is Irene. I am from Lucerne, Switzerland, and joined Roche 3 years ago from the University of Zurich. I was a principal investigator in Alzheimer’s disease research focusing on the neuroimmunological mechanisms of chronic neurodegenerative diseases.

Meet Ross

I am currently in a hybrid role split between financial planning as part of Roche’s Target Enrichment/Sequencing business area and financial controlling for Madison manufacturing as part of Global Operations.

Meet Paige

I chose Roche for my internship because I wanted to gain exposure to the biotechnology industry, learn about the diagnostics business area, and find my own place at Roche.

Meet Nhu

I joined Roche Pharma Vietnam in HCMC as a Strategic Business Analyst in January 2015. I have been working in the pharmaceutical industry for more than 5 years. I love experimenting with innovative approaches, and sharing experience with others. In my free time, I enjoy travelling with my family and friends, and exploring new places, foods, and cultures.

Meet Matt

I started with Roche Sequencing in Madison in April of 2016 as a Scientist in Production Bioinformatics. It’s a great position for interacting with customers and ensuring our custom offerings are tailored to their applications.

Meet Frank

From a previous FDA Investigators perspective, I would say that Quality sets Roche apart from other companies.

Meet Michael

I manage a group of R&D bioinformatics scientists. Our group is primarily involved in target enrichment product development but also collaborates with other teams in Roche.

An impressive social commitment and outstanding academic performance

For a number of years, Roche has supported students from selected universities and colleges within the framework of the Deutschlandstipendium. In the interview, Katherina Gantenbein, scholarship holder, talks about her multifaceted involvement as a medical student.

Nuestros compañeros son nuestra prioridad

En Roche, queremos que cada empleado se inspire por lo que somos y hacemos. Los animamos a dejar su huella y mejorar las vidas de otros. Nuestros compañeros son nuestra prioridad y nos interesa acompañarlos en su crecimiento profesional y personal.

¡Desarrollamos el mejor talento!

Estamos comprometidos en ofrecer oportunidades profesionales locales y globales haciendo de Roche el mejor lugar para trabajar.

Meet Mario

We work hard in Diabetes Care IT to come up with the most innovative solutions to support the Diabetes Care business. Being part of an ongoing transformation program means that I never get bored!

Meet Jens

I would describe my typical day at work as a mixture of the deductive powers of Sherlock Holmes, the research spirit of Marie Curie, and the diplomatic networking of Henry Kissinger, while documenting everything like John Watson.

Meet LingCheng

LingCheng Tao, Legal Counsel, Legal, Roche Diagnostics. Finding the balance between the increasingly stringent regulations and growing business is challengeable.

Meet Ken

Ken Chen, CRM Solution Manager, APAC Informatics at Roche Pharmaceuticals. The sense of achievement felt by Roche employees, to a large extent, comes from the fact that our products bring patients hope of life.

Meet Chris

Chris Zhang, Procurement specialist, Finance, Roche Pharmaceduticals. This is a big family advocating learning from each other.

Meet Yuan

Yuan Chen, Senior District Manager, Key Account Hospital Access at Roche Pharmaceuticals. As hospital access team member, my job is helping hospitals know about Roche’s professionalism and strong academic study, strengthening Roche’s long-term cooperation with hospital.

Meet Ang

Ang Zhao, Senior Service Engineer, Customer Care, Roche Diagnostics. How to seek out the trouble spot of the equipment rapidly and assist to deal with patients’ sample in time is the most challenging part of my job now.

Meet Miao

Miao Xie, Customer Support Supervisor, Customer Care, Roche Diagnostics. Reasonable explanations and advice help patients receive treatment.

Meet Wei

Wei Chen, Foreman of finished goods warehouse at Roche Pharmaceuticals. Each box and each bottle of Roche Pharmaceuticals’ 18 products starts its journey from this huge warehouse and is delivered to people who need it.

Meet Weifeng

Weifeng Zhang, Drug Safety Scientist, Product Development, Shanghai. My duty is to analyze the drug safety data collected worldwide and make corresponding risk management strategies.

Meet Jie

Jie Zhang, Senior Medical Information Consultant at Roche Pharmaceuticals. Our job is to think for patients and light up hopes for them.

Meet Lanlan

Lanlan Xu, Associate Marketing Manager at Roche Pharmaceuticals. Only after we fully understand and analyze the local situations, can we adjust the market strategies and implement them.

Meet YiLan

YiLan Zhang, Regional LI Manager, Regional LI Manager, Centralized and Point of Care Solutions. How to represent Roche and demonstrate company culture needs to be considered.

Meet YangYang

YangYang Jia, Sr. Account Executive, Molecular Solutions - IVD, Roche Diagnostics. I have to be acquainted with testing methods in hospitals and Roche products, and also know how to communicate effectively.

Meet Xin

Xin Tan, Sr Account Executive, Centralized and Point of Care Solutions, Roche Diagnostics. The new technology can be introduced faster and diagnoses can be effective.

Meet Rui

Rui Chen, Area Manager, Molecular Solutions - Life Science, Roche Diagnostics. I’m responsible for sales in the next generation sequencing market.

Industry instead of Pharmacy

Whoever studies Pharmacy, winds up behind the sales counter of a pharmacy? Not necessarily – since graduates can also apply their knowledge in the industry. You can find out whether this work appeals to you in the pharmaceutics internship.

As a physician in the pharmaceutical industry?

Managing clinical trials instead of treating patients? Yes, say two employees of Roche Pharma AG in Grenzach.

Meet Andreas

I am very excited about being part of the global product strategy team with so many highly talented and motivated people from all around the globe – that’s very inspiring.

Meet Claudia

At Roche, our aim is for every person who is in need of our products to have access and benefit from them.

Meet Andrea Masters

It’s an exciting time with many changes in the Market Access environment with lots of opportunity to learn and make a difference as the environment evolves.

Meet Daniela

Hi, my name is Daniela, I was born and raised in Milan, Italy. My academic mentor suggested that I should apply for an internship on the Roche internships for Scientific Exchange (RiSE) program. Since I viewed it as a great opportunity to grow as a scientist, I was very keen to apply, and that is how I joined Roche.

Three questions to ...

Anyone who already showed an interest in natural sciences in school, but at the same time also senses the businessperson in oneself, finds the perfect combination of both worlds in the pharmaceutical industry.

Meet Nancy

I am a Canadian pharmacist with previous work experience in retail pharmacy, drug Information, and drug safety. I am currently studying Pharmaceutical Regulation as part of a graduate program and “training” (emphasis on quotations) for my first 10 km run in the spring!

In Marketing and a Specialist all in one

What leads a doctor of biochemistry to Marketing? Dr. Christian Polaschegg explains in an interview how he became a Product Manager at Roche Pharma.

From the Project to the Leadership Career Path

"Every challenge in due course," says Armin von Kalkstein. It’s good that he has the choice at Roche and can change career paths without any problems. Thus, you cannot get bored, even after 25 years with the company.

Meet Marina

Hi, my name is Marina and I joined Roche in 2010 as Head of the Cell Biology Group. I am leading one of the Cancer Immunotherapy departments.

Us together in process

The project week of the apprentices and cooperative university students out of the 2nd year of training at the Mannheim, Berlin and Waiblingen sites was this year again keeping with the motto “Us-in-Process”.

First an Expert, then a Leader

An expert or a leadership career path? A difficult question before the start of the career as an engineer – one would think. However, at least at Roche, changing career paths is no problem.

Meet Daphne

After my Masters studies in Business Administration with a focus in Engineering and Finance, I joined Roche in Switzerland as a Global Finance Management trainee.

Meet Jennifer Fleming

I help my colleagues at Roche Canada understand the “why” behind decisions the company takes, how those decisions may impact their work and how that work helps us achieve our vision.

Meet Sotirios

I am currently working as a Business Solution Manager (BSM) in the Business Intelligence & Analytics department within Informatics. I provide functional and strategic expertise for a wide area of business processes and solutions within the drug development lifecycle.

Meet Nusheen Ditta

I work in a very supportive and talented department. Our ideas and thoughts are considered important and we are encouraged to voice them in many different forums and venues.

Wearing a proud shade of green

A little over a year ago Roche Pharma Canada moved to its new premises in Mississauga. Part of that move involved looking at the environment goals closely and putting systems and efforts in place to make the campus a model for sustainability.

LED by science

Curiosity, passion, determination and a touch of genius led three young Hong Kong students to design and produce a self-sanitising door handle, thereby winning the Roche Young Scientist Award (RYSA) and a round trip of Roche sites in Switzerland.

A family waits for a medicine

February 29 is Rare Disease Day. It is a day of hope for Fernanda Silva, a Roche colleague in Brazil, and her husband Acerlan Souza. Their daughter Beatriz is seven. She is a little bundle of joy and is extremely playful. But she has a problem, a rare one.

Roche Mannheim assists refugees

As home to around 6,000 refugees, the Benjamin Franklin barracks in the north of Mannheim currently resemble a small town. A lot of things, including sleeping bags, tables and winter clothing, are in short supply.

Meet Karina

HR Perspectives is a step out of your comfort zone, an adventure that provides indispensable insights into your personal and professional passions and capabilities.

Meet Pelin

In October 2017, I completed the HR Perspectives program and started to my post program role in Basel. I am working as a Talent Acquisition Expert and supporting both Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics divisions.

Meet Jannik

HR Perspectives brought me from Basel, Switzerland over South San Francisco, USA to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where I am currently an HR Business Partner for our commercial organization in the Diagnostics business.

Meet Andrea

I have over 15 years’ experience as an Executive/Administrative Assistant for various industries including IT consulting, insurance, and event management.

Meet Raul

I joined Roche in May 2015 in Vancouver and relocated to Montreal in June. I was born and raised in La Paz (Bolivia), completed my undergraduate studies in France and the USA and moved to Canada for graduate school.

Meet Sindee

I am currently a Lifecycle Finance Manager, supporting the business team on all financial topics. This is an interesting role as I work with people from numerous functions within the business area and also across the Diagnostics organisation.

A Festive Conclusion - Roche in Mannheim honored the 2015 Graduates und Absolventen 2015

On December 16, 2015, the graduation ceremony for 89 apprentices and BW cooperative university students took place at the Mannheim site. They started their educations in 2011 and 2012 and successfully completed them in 2015.

Meet Eric

I was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to Toronto with my parents at the young of 6. My hobbies include a variety of things such as photography, building models, snowboarding, playing basketball and video games.

Meet Dean

Hi, my name is Dean and I am a British citizen. I joined Roche from the United Kingdom, where I was working as a management consultant for the pharma industry.

Meet Jochen

My name is Jochen. I was born in Southern Germany where I also spent my whole childhood. I hold a master’s degree in Business and Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern.

Eye-to-eye With Physicians

The medical scientific cooperation between the pharmaceutical industry and the medical profession has recently been increasing in significance. For this reason, the position of Medical Science Liaison Manager was created at Roche Pharma AG. The team is responsible for the scientific communication with the treating physicians and is organized by Dr. Doris Schwindt.

Roche trained Germany’s best Biology Laboratory Technician in 2015

In 2015, approximately 60 apprentices successfully completed their apprenticeships at Roche in Penzberg; amongst them was Lara-Kristin Steinmetz.

Meet Paola Botrugno

I am responsible for the implementation of the Personalised Reimbursement Model project with affiliates – meaning I support them in developing and implementing their strategies as well as providing input and facilitating knowledge sharing.

Meet Justyna

My name is Justyna. I joined Roche five years ago as a specialist for Oracle Software Development and am now working in the area of Business Intelligence as a Senior IT Professional..

Personalized Training – an innovative training concept

Roche is striking out in a new direction in order to respond to trends in vocational training and the dual curriculum of universities of cooperative study

Meet Armin

Hi, my name is Armin. I am from Kempten, a historic and beautiful small town in the Allgäu, right next to the mountains. I studied life sciences, a combination of organic chemistry and molecular biology, at the University of Constance.

Roche Ranks 3rd Globally in Diversity and Inclusion Index

Creating a diverse workplace in which everyone is valued and has an equal opportunity to grow and develop has been proved to positively impact a company’s culture, performance and profitability. In a male-dominant region such as the Middle East that is constantly scrutinized by the media, it is important to bring to light efforts being put towards equal opportunities.

Learning from Top-Class Sport

Delivering the highest performance at just the right time, motivating one’s body and oneself while achieving inner balance – top athletes are true masters in this area. There’s a lot to be learned here.

Meet Lukas

I was searching for a new opportunity in a globally oriented company close to my hometown which is also committed to going forward with innovative topics.

Meet Michael Schröter

I look after the implementation of the Personalised Reimbursement Model (PRM). My team is charged with developing and implementing a framework to address a key challenge in pricing and access.

Meet René Imhof

The Operational Pricing team includes an In-Market Pricing group and a Transfer Pricing group. Our role is to give guidance to our regional and local market access and pricing functions around the world for the implementation of our value-based pricing strategies.

Meet Claudine Sapede

I am responsible for aligning global, regional and affiliate functions around common priorities, themes, principles and positions in the field of HTA and payment policy.

Meet Charles Ngoh

My role requires an ability to think strategically and to work with and lead teams.

Meet Carla Bedard

The remit of my role is to drive progress towards implementing Personalised Reimbursement Models (PRM), which enable accelerated and broader patient access to Roche’s medicines.

Meet Pierre Ducournau

A key aspect of my role is to understand current and future HTA requirements and translate these into meaningful analyses and methodologies which can be used directly by Roche affiliates for their HTA strategy and dossiers.

Meet Taimur Bhatti

My role requires a broad understanding of the constantly evolving payer environment and an appreciation of challenges faced by Roche affiliates.

Meet Asli Sisli

The most rewarding aspect of my job is that I am able to address issues with high impact on patient well-being and company turnover.

Two Roche apprentices honored for outstanding examination results

The Chamber of Industry and trade (IHK) Rhine-Neckar celebrated the apprentices with the best results in the 2014/2015 final examination in a ceremony.

Neither down, nor out

Genentech’s Greg Orlick has multiple sclerosis but has made it a positive influence in his life

Meet Pavel Napalkov

Key skills for my role are the ability to prioritise, to have a positive attitude while working in the constantly changing business environment, be genuinely interested in what your business partners do and to actively give help and ask for help.

Meet Pius

My name is Pius and I work as Software Requirements Engineer for Roche Diagnostics International. I have been with Roche since 2006 and have worked within different projects and roles.

"Looking beyond the rims of test tubes and beakers!"

A researcher in Marketing? Catherine was initially skeptical – until she discovered her talent for sales with Roche. As a Management Start-Up Trainee, she can now fully realize it.

Meet Sandro

My name is Sandro, I’m 25 years old and I have been working within Roche for almost 10 years now. At the moment I am working as a Development Engineer in Rotkreuz, Switzerland.

Stepping out…

“Whaaat? We’re supposed to go to Shanghai for a year? Now of all times?” I thought to myself, since I had just changed jobs 6 months previously and moved from Roche Diagnostics to Roche Pharma AG in Grenzach as the HR Marketing Manager.

Meet Phuong, Drug Safety Specialist

I am currently working as a Drug Safety Specialist. This role enables me to expand my knowledge and communication to not only Medical Affair colleagues but also all affiliate staff for different tasks.

Meet Thanh, Financial Planner & Analyst

Graduated with a commerce degree, my first working experience was in “Audit” with one of the Big4. That gave me great opportunities to gain business knowledge from various industries and get a good overview of business operations and risk assessment.

Meet Christine, Product Manager

I grew up in Paris(France) and studied chemistry, galenic formulation and healthcare management.

Meet Trinh, HR Administrative Assistant

My name is Trinh. I graduated with a major in International Business Administration from Ton Duc Thang University. I am working as HR Administrative Assistant.

Meet Wolfgang

I am a German native speaker, born in a small city between the border to Switzerland and Munich which is embedded in a geographical area called Allgäu.

Meet Marcin

My name is Marcin; I have been with Roche since 2002. I was born and raised in Poland and this is where most of my family still lives – which also means Poland is my favourite holiday destination :)

Helping create medical progress

Pharmaceutical manufacturer Roche is the leader in the global oncology market. 18 years ago things looked very different when Dr. Stefan Frings–after completing his residency–left his medical career and switched to the pharmaceutical sector.

Every journey starts with the first step - From group to team!

Friends, joy, and a good team atmosphere are the basis for success at work. The introductory week in Mainz gave us an opportunity to get to know each other. But how did the group become a team?

Meet Ceri

I come from Scotland originally and spent my childhood on the west coast, developing a passion for lakes, mountains and all things deep fried.

Meet Annalisa

I am Annalisa and I joined Roche at the beginning of May 2015. I am originally from Italy, but I left my country more than 20 years ago for what was supposed to be a couple of years of training in the USA during my PhD.

Having lunch at Roche

“We are more willing to buy expensive engine oil in our daily life, than consuming high-quality food.”

Meet Tin

Hi, my name is Tin. I was born in Guangzhou, China. I moved to Hong Kong when I was 11, and then to Melbourne, Australia, as an international student when I was 15 years old. I stayed in Australia for over 10 years and graduated from the University of Melbourne.

Meet Caroline

My name is Caroline. I am an expert in flow cytometry, which is a technology used to analyse immune cells.

Everything starts in your head…

What does it mean to decide on a good level? In the end we still make this decision in our head, isn’t it?

Our policy at Roche: healthy nutrition from an early age

At Roche healthy nutrition is a major issue. HR Marketing has discussed that topic a lot in the past few weeks. The broad variety in our canteens allows our employees to enjoy a balanced diet. But, what about the younger generation?

Meet Maya

My name is Maya and I lead the e-learning team for Global Customer Support at Roche Diagnostics in Rotkreuz, Switzerland. I joined Roche in October 2013 as an e-learning specialist. Looking back, I clearly see that following my passion is what brought me here.

Foreign deployment made easy for Roche employees, Part 2

Genentech, a biotech company in San Francisco, is a subsidiary of Roche USA. Ralf K. took advantage of the opportunity, switched from Europe to USA and is glad about the excellent supervision that Roche offers its employees during a foreign deployment.

„Throwaway society? – No, thank you!“

Sustainability is a topic of increasing importance in our society. Progress and innovation are very important issues, but also drive climate change and environmental pollution. As an internationally operating group, Roche is obligated to always act in the interest of sustainability.

TOP 100 – for the third time in a row top 3

Roche PVT, the Roche competence center for laboratory automation, was placed third in the well-known competition for innovative medium-sized companies.

Diversity at Roche in Grenzach

When people with different backgrounds come together, that collectively generates added value for you, your team and the whole company. And that´s the point of all - to make the most of different strengths, to use talents, to capitalize on different skills and abilities.

Eat smarter at the work place

What characterizes a well-balanced nutrition? How can I structure my nutrition correctly?

What is Molecular Information Management?

The emerging field of Molecular Information and Genomic analysis will play an increasingly important role for future medicines and diagnostic solutions, in particular for cancer patients

Meet Leo

My name is Leo and I’m going into my senior year at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis studying Communications with minors in philosophy, psychology, and music technology.

Meet Trevor

My name is Trevor and I am currently a senior at University of California, San Diego, pursuing a degree in Biochemistry and Cell Biology. This is my third summer working for Roche Molecular Diagnostics as an intern and currently working in the Research PCR department.

Networking differently - Roche-Mentees and Mentors build new play equipment for the daycare center “Krabbelkäfer”

Networking and getting to know people in sterile meeting rooms was yesterday. Sawing, drilling and assembling were on the agenda of the day in early July for the participants of the Management Start Up Program at Roche.

Direct entry as a boss

Moritz D. started his career at Roche already before entering the company: he was a member of the Roche Evolution program, which enabled him to get to know every day working life and built the basis for his leadership career. However, the comprehensive training opportunities still keep surprising him.

Pictures paint a thousand words

A brief overview of what has happened on the Roche Gardens.

Foreign assignment made easy for Roche employees

The Biotech-company Genentech in San Francisco is a subsidiary of Roche US. Dr. Christiane L. received the first class support, which Roche offers employees during their time abroad, when she switched from the US to Germany. In an interview, Dr. Christiane L. reports about her experiences:

Roche is one of the greenest companies

Roche is committed to sustainable development and our efforts have been recognized by Newsweek in collaboration with Corporate Knights Capital and HIP (Human Impact + Profit) Investor Inc. We are in the top 10 of the green companies in the world.

Interview about the minimum wage for interns

Since January 1st 2015, the Minimum Wage Law applies in Germany. This means that a minimum wage of 8.50 Euro per hour must be paid. The introduction of this law was intensely discussed and the minimum wage for internships was the subject of controversial debates. Hence, the question arose, what implications the Minimum Wage Law has for internships at Roche. Therefore, Birgit Harbauer, HR Specialist Recruiting, answered some of our questions in an interview. She is responsible for internships and final

Meet Flavio

Hi, my name is Flavio and I work as a Development Engineer for Roche Diagnostics International. I was born and raised in the countryside near Lucerne, where I still live today.

Careers at Roche: How to apply in a few easy steps

We've listened carefully to your comments the last years and have made some exciting changes to our career site.

Roche Children’s Walk - Roche employees support children in need with their charity run

Last Tuesday, about 700 employees from Mannheim and Penzberg walked together for a good cause during the Roche Children’s Walk. Colleagues from over 120 Roche sites around the world also joined this global fund-raise and walked for children in need. The collected donations benefit local projects and orphan children in Malawi.

Roche reaches for the stars

Mannheim. The clock almost shows 11 o’clock - the canteen on the Roche site is still deserted, but in the kitchen it has been busy for hours. Soup ladles are swung around, meat is roasted and sauces are added some seasoning. The chefs want to delight their guests once again and put the final touches to the meals. But, what only few people know: behind the ovens there are also two starred chefs who create our daily lunches.

Third German Diversity Day - Today marks the start of the “Culinary Diversity Week” at Roche

Have you ever tried Mercimek Corbasi, Gado Gado or Svickova?

Meet a Roche Recruiter – meet Friederike

Friederike supports the Roche Pharma Inc. recruiting team in Grenzach already for the second time. In this interview she gives us a deeper insight about the characteristics of Roche and which positions are declared vacant.

Upgrade for your career

146.000 companies are making the Rhein-Neckar-area one of the biggest driver in the German economy. Over here, professionals have the best chances. The possibilities for enjoying your life in the Rhein-Neckar-area are nearly unlimited.

“5 a day – why fruits and vegetables are so valuable for us”

Last week we started with our campaign “Roche Gardening”. Throughout the summer months, there will be raised beds at our site in Mannheim, where we will plant fruits and vegetables for eventually harvesting fresh lettuce, crunchy radishes and sun-ripened strawberries.

“Us in process“ - project week of our trainees who started in 2013

During the first week of May, we trainees from Mannheim and also Berlin who started in 2013 drove to a Center Parc in Medebach. According to the motto “us in process”, we were learning about the topics process optimization, CIP (continuous improvement process) and ideas management and hence we got to know each other.

Evento Acércate: Buscando el talento PIMS

Roche, empresa farmacéutica líder en el sector, ¡busca talentos como tú! Sí, has oído bien, Roche también busca perfiles de ingeniería e informática.

Off to the high beds!

„Those who want to be happy for a lifetime, those will be gardeners“ – according to this old Chinese saying, our Roche interns and their mentors are now reaching for pruning shears and watering cans and thus go down to work: At the “Roche Gardening” kick-off event, which was held beginning of May, the HR Marketing Team opened up the gardening season and invited to plant the new high beds.

Roche Diagnostics Signs Nine New Cooperation Agreements for School Partnerships for the Years 2015 - 2018

The goal of the "School Partnerships 2015 - 2018" consists of supporting students in their im-portant step from school to professional life.

Vocational Training goes International

Internationalization is a topic which has an increasing importance for Roche in Germany. Many employees are going to Roche locations abroad in order to attain the possibility of networking, learning about different ways of working as well as receiving different perspectives.

Get intern – secure yourself an internship at Roche

Have you recently asked yourself, how you could manage your first steps into the pharmaceutical industry?

Roche Gardening – from the office directly into the garden

According to an old German folk wisdom ‘May makes everything new’. We want to follow this saying and start our second campaign on health, which will focus on healthy nutrition.

Meet Lukas

Hi there, my name is Lukas and I am working as a health economist at Roche. In my free time I enjoy being outdoors and travelling.

Roche Diagnostics China Best Employer 2014

Even small steps can change a lot

Interview with Edgar Vieth, Head of Personnel at Roche Diagnostics GmbH, about motion

Meet Aymeric

My name is Aymeric Lagarde and I am from France. I was born in Reims, the capital of the Champagne region in the north-eastern part of the country.

Boys, let the girl’s do this!

For Girls’ Day on April 23rd 2015, about 10.000 companies in Germany are opening their doors. So does Roche Diagnostics with its sites in Mannheim and Penzberg.

Let’s say ‘action‘ for sustainability!

Sustainability is a word that is used quite often and which has a lot of different meanings. The topic itself thereby increases in meaning, because of the social challenges we have to face.

Webinar “Roche moves – employees are reporting live“

On March 26th, Roche allowed a deeper insight into the company and offered background information within the webinar series “Roche in Touch“.

Stay cool during stagnation

In case a manufacturing plant at Roche comes to a halt, Nikolaj needs to keep a clear head. As operating engineer it is his task to ensure that the problem is solved really quickly

A journey through the German healthcare system

In order to develop a new kind of medicine, it is necessary to invest in research for several years.

Meet Nina

My daily work is truly varied, spanning research in literature, planning future experiments, reviewing and analyzing data as well as practical work and hands-on experience at the machines.

The MINT try-out-days in Penzberg

Between March 30th and April 10th 2015 we are welcoming 150 students at our site in Penzberg who are able to try out different jobs within our job branch.

Project week in Prüm: Learning from common experiences

Project week in Prüm: Learning from common experiences

Show me the right poses!

At Roche, the medical service and maintenance of industrial health and safety standards are making huge contributions to our employee’s wealth. Therefore, they implemented various measures.

Jedes Ziel beginnt mit einem ersten Schritt …

Letzte Woche war es endlich soweit und unsere Praktikanten an den Standorten Mannheim und Penzberg durften ihn in den Händen halten: ihren Activity Tracker.

Roche bewegt - Mitarbeitende berichten live

Als Gesundheitsunternehmen liegt uns sowohl das Wohl der Patienten als auch das der Mitarbeitenden sehr am Herzen.

Mit Roche fit für den Frühling – Verlosung von Activity Trackern

Kaum haben wir offiziell Frühlingsanfang, schon fällt der Startschuss für eine „sportliche“ Aktion: Mit der Verlosung von Activity Trackern an unsere Praktikanten/innen und deren Betreuer wurde dafür der Grundstein gelegt.

Meet Molly

Roche Basel is a very international and dynamic site to work at. There are more than 10 nationalities in my team of 12 people. People bring their different backgrounds and experiences and are open to share best practices.

Das Beste kommt zum Schluss – die Roche ZugaB

Zum Festival-Abschluss präsentiert sich das B-Seite Festival in Mannheim mit einem leuchtenden Höhepunkt auf dem Roche-Gelände: Faszinierende Projektionen, Video-Art und Computerkunst lassen die Gebäude erstrahlen. Begleitet werden diese visuellen Eindrücke durch experimentelle Beiträge aus verschiedenen Musikgenres

Mit der richtigen Motivation zu mehr Bewegung

Im Rahmen des internationales Praktikantenprogrammes der Roche Pharma AG sammelte Charlene wertvolle Erfahrungen in der Planung und Durchführung klinischer Studien - und ganz nebenbei verbesserte sie ihre Deutschkenntnisse.

Von der Uni Singapur zum Praktikum bei Roche in Grenzach

Im Rahmen des internationales Praktikantenprogrammes der Roche Pharma AG sammelte Charlene wertvolle Erfahrungen in der Planung und Durchführung klinischer Studien - und ganz nebenbei verbesserte sie ihre Deutschkenntnisse.

Roche ist erneut Top-Arbeitgeber in Deutschland und Europa

Erneut wurde Roche zum „Top Employers Europe“ zertifiziert und erhält den Titel „Top Employer“ in den Ländern Frankreich, Deutschland, Italien, Niederlande, Polen, Spanien, Schweiz und UK. Die Auszeichnung „Top Employers Europe 2015” wird ausschließlich an Unternehmen mit herausragenden Arbeitsbedingungen vergeben.

Weltrekord über der Wüste Arizonas

214 Fallschirmspringer in den Farben Schwarz, Rot und Gold bildeten am 24. Oktober 2014 hoch über der Wüste Arizonas im freien Fall eine Formation ähnlich einer Schneeflocke.

Meet Noémie

I joined the Finance Perspectives program in January 2014 and completed my first assignment in Basel as a Pharma Controller in the Pharma Finance Business Integration department, and dedicated 20% of my time supporting the Skin Franchise within Global Product Strategy.

Mit dem Shuttle Bus in Shanghai zu Roche…

…das ist nur eine von vielen Arbeitgeberleistungen von Roche, die von den Mitarbeitenden in China besonders geschätzt wird. Woher ich das weiß? Und wer ich bin?

Roche als Arbeitgeber und warum wir sogar nach Bierbrauern suchen

Der Radiosender Karriere.fm verbindet Musik und Social Media Recruiting und bringt so das Erfolgsrezept aus den Niederlanden auch nach Deutschland: Recruitainment.

Business Intelligence or the importance of getting the right data

In IT information matters and, in fact, it does a lot. That’s why reporting skills are so important when you need to have a detailed view at your data in order to make the right decisions for your organization.

„Jugend forscht“ startet in 50. Wettbewerbsrunde

„Es geht wieder los“ – unter diesem Motto starten „Jugend forscht“ und „Schüler experimentieren“ in die diesjährige Wettbewerbsrunde am 12. Februar 2015.

Meet Hanna

I learned how critical the role of HR is in fostering the corporate culture, developing the workforce and ultimately, in achieving business goals.

Meet Pia

The project I am working on involves diverse team members from various functions of Roche, including colleagues from IT, Contract and Legal, Procurement, Global/Regional HRBP, Shared Service Center.

Meet Christin

I started in October 2014 on my first assignment as a project manager for the global team of Learning & Organizational Effectiveness, in Basel. My focus area has been on High Potentials and Succession Planning which helped me to understand how relevant Succession Planning and Talent Management are for the overall organization.

Effective feedback in professional environments

Managing feedback will help you always in your professional career. One of the skills that always will be included in the profile of good leaders is their ability to give and receive feedback smoothly but effectively.

10.000 Schritte in ein gesünderes Leben

Was haben ein Fußballer, ein Handballer und ein Golfspieler gemeinsam? Abgesehen davon, dass sie eine Sportart ausüben, in der sich alles um einen Ball dreht, haben sie eine weitere Gemeinsamkeit: Während eines Wettkampfs legen die Sportler eine Strecke von mindestens 7 Kilometern zurück, was umgerechnet rund 10.000 Schritten entspricht.

Meet Chris

I was born in southern California and spent most of my childhood close to the mountains in Colorado. My university life was split between California and the Lausanne area, where I spent a few years studying abroad and doing internships with a major multinational food and beverage company. I spent just over 3 years working internationally as an internal auditor after university, again out of the Lausanne region, and moved to Basel early in 2014 to begin my career with Roche.

Meet Nirvana Ramlall

Roche is definitely focused on staff development and the performance evaluation method over the years has been more than fair, relevant and transparent.

Meet Clinton

I believe Roche has the true interest in not only getting products to patients but also in developing the market in which it operates.

Meet Thozama

I find my colleagues very friendly, hardworking and good team players. I believe that Roche is a great place to work for because, because employees are well taken care of.

Meet Themba

I was looking for a company that was an Innovator and ahead of the rest when it came to technology and Roche is that company.

Meet Michael

I am stimulated on a daily basis to solve legal and compliance issues to make sure that we meet our obligation of “Doing now what patients need next.” more

Fünf sportliche Fragen...

Als Gesundheitsunternehmen möchte Roche natürlich auch, dass die eigenen Mitarbeiter fit und gesund bleiben. Deshalb gibt es bei Roche in Mannheim neben dem betriebseigenen Fitnessstudio noch 18 verschiedene Betriebssportgruppen, die vom Unternehmen unterstützt werden.

Meet Christoph

I work at Roche Diagnostics in Rotkreuz and live in Arth, which gives me a very short commute, something I have come to appreciate very much compared to earlier jobs. The Rotkreuz site has grown extremely fast in the last years and therefore, many new and modern offices and production buildings have been built.

Wenn der Chef die Suppenkelle schwingt…

…dann ist vielleicht gerade Frontline Day bei Roche in Mannheim. Der Aktionstag, Ende November 2014, an dem Mitglieder der oberen Führungsebene bei der Essensausgabe halfen, kam bei allen Beteiligten so gut an, dass Casinoleiter Christophe H. ins Schwärmen gerät: ...

„Translate Science into Value“

Medizin und Ökonomie – was nach einer eher ungewöhnlichen Kombination klingt, fasziniert Professor Jörg R. schon seit seiner Facharztausbildung. So absolvierte er zusätzlich ein weiterqualifizierendes MBA-Studium. Heute ist er Head of Market Access bei Roche – und begeistert von seiner Tätigkeit. Woran das liegt, erzählt er im Interview.

"Dieses Jahr werde ich...

1. mehr Sport machen 2. mich gesünder ernähren und 3. bewusster leben"

Meet Parisa

I am a Microbiologist by education, but mainly focus on the business side of the company at this point. After earning a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of California at Davis...

Nachhaltige Evolution

Fast 50 Teilnehmer hatten beim Roche-Evolution-Jahresevent vor allem eines im Sinn: das Thema Nachhaltigkeit

Von der Wandfarbe zum Teststreifen

Wieso man nach einer Dissertation über das Trocknungsverhalten von Wandfarbe bei Roche einsteigt? Imke L. berichtet im Interview von ihrem Ein- und Aufstieg im Unternehmen sowie den vielfältigen Karrieremöglichkeiten für Naturwissenschaftler und Ingenieure bei Roche.

Meet Burçe

After I had graduated from the medical faculty I moved to İstanbul and started my residency training on cardiovascular surgery. I had completed my residency training in 2011 and worked as a cardiovascular surgeon for almost a year then I decided to make a big change about my life. I quit my job and started to work at Roche.

Meet Sinan

I am 40 and have been married since 2007. I have a 5 years old son. I graduated from İstanbul Technical University where I studied Environmental Engineering.

Meet Deniz

I grew up in Bursa, one of the major cities in Turkey. After graduating from high school in there, I moved to Istanbul for my education.

Meet Wei An

My name is Wei An and I am originally from Singapore, a little city state in Southeast Asia with 5.4 million residents in a tiny land area of 700sq km.

Career Blog

Interviews with and good advice from our recruiters and employees around the globe.

Career Blog

Interviews with and good advice from our recruiters and employees around the globe.

Career Blog

Interviews with and good advice from our recruiters and employees around the globe.

Career Blog

Interviews with and good advice from our recruiters and employees around the globe.

Career Blog

Interviews with and good advice from our recruiters and employees around the globe.

Career Blog

Interviews with and good advice from our recruiters and employees around the globe.

Career Blog

Interviews with and good advice from our recruiters and employees around the globe.

Career Blog

Interviews with and good advice from our recruiters and employees around the globe.

Career Blog

Interviews with and good advice from our recruiters and employees around the globe.

Career Blog

Interviews with and good advice from our recruiters and employees around the globe.

Career Blog

Interviews with and good advice from our recruiters and employees around the globe.

Career Blog

Interviews with and good advice from our recruiters and employees around the globe.

Career Blog

Interviews with and good advice from our recruiters and employees around the globe.

Career Blog

Interviews with and good advice from our recruiters and employees around the globe.

Career Blog

Interviews with and good advice from our recruiters and employees around the globe.

Career Blog

Interviews with and good advice from our recruiters and employees around the globe.

Career Blog

Interviews with and good advice from our recruiters and employees around the globe.

Career Blog

Interviews with and good advice from our recruiters and employees around the globe.

Career Blog

Interviews with and good advice from our recruiters and employees around the globe.

Career Blog

Interviews with and good advice from our recruiters and employees around the globe.