"Every day I am honored to have the opportunity to help make sense of data, for the sake of understanding the science and more so to enable better informed decisions. It has been a privilege to work with a talented team across global sites and different functions to develop NGS-based diagnostic products and demonstrate their medical value through clinical projects on real patient samples."
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"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.
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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.
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“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.”
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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.
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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.
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„Roche Pharma for me is an amazing organization with so many divers areas of work“, so Leslie, sales REP in Berlin.
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"I am inspired by these super dedicated and very talented people who give their best every day."
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Converting an idea into reality is a rollercoaster of emotions, frustrations and hope. Accept this fact and push for it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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"We apply ourselves day by day to our mission ‘Doing now what patients need next’!"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To become a leader – is this my goal? After successfully completing her studies, Carla had to decide which professional steps to take next.
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“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?
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I see my occupation as a chance to drive forward healthcare and medicine with the aid of technology, and to solve problems.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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At Roche we have the possibility for the long-term perspective, which allows and also requires us to be courageous.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I continuously benefit from the perspective and the overall understanding of the market, people and company.
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For me, Roche is a unique and truly interesting company. We develop diagnostic products, but we are also responsible for treatments and treatment monitoring.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We are the link between R&D that develops the IT solutions and the market voice coming from the Regions and the Country Affiliates...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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A brief review - trainees of different sites came together in Grenzach with the theme "Roche Beyond - People, Pipelines, Products".
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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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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.
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I especially really enjoy the unexpected. No day is like any other.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Ready? Set. Go. Join this University Challenge and find out how coding is solving problems in healthcare.
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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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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).
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Personal and professional development are very important for me. For Roche too.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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For a successful application procedure the candidate needs predominantly to be professional qualified. But it is not alone the qualification that counts!
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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.
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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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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.
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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!
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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.
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"In my role I study how to improve the quality of life of people"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Know more about how we manage our Global Network Operations in Roche.
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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!
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#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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Los beneficios de este fármaco se traducen directamente en calidad de vida.
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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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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Chris Zhang, Procurement specialist, Finance, Roche Pharmaceduticals. This is a big family advocating learning from each other.
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Miao Xie, Customer Support Supervisor, Customer Care, Roche Diagnostics. Reasonable explanations and advice help patients receive treatment.
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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.
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Rui Chen, Area Manager, Molecular Solutions - Life Science, Roche Diagnostics. I’m responsible for sales in the next generation sequencing market.
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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.
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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.
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What leads a doctor of biochemistry to Marketing? Dr. Christian Polaschegg explains in an interview how he became a Product Manager at Roche Pharma.
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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”.
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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.
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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.
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Join the journey through the heart of Roche IT and learn how Informatics is providing agile and efficient infrastructure for our researchers investigating in new compounds. To transform the enormous amounts of data into improved scientific and business understanding, we are developing a completely new infrastructure. The journey to achieve this understanding begins with one single click
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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I grew up in Paris(France) and studied chemistry, galenic formulation and healthcare management.
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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 :)
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I come from Scotland originally and spent my childhood on the west coast, developing a passion for lakes, mountains and all things deep fried.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Roche PVT, the Roche competence center for laboratory automation, was placed third in the well-known competition for innovative medium-sized companies.
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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.
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What characterizes a well-balanced nutrition? How can I structure my nutrition correctly?
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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
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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
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We've listened carefully to your comments the last years and have made some exciting changes to our career site.
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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.
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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.
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Have you ever tried Mercimek Corbasi, Gado Gado or Svickova?
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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.
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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.
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„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.
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The goal of the "School Partnerships 2015 - 2018" consists of supporting students in their im-portant step from school to professional life.
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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.
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Have you recently asked yourself, how you could manage your first steps into the pharmaceutical industry?
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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.
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In order to develop a new kind of medicine, it is necessary to invest in research for several years.
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Project week in Prüm: Learning from common experiences
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Als Gesundheitsunternehmen liegt uns sowohl das Wohl der Patienten als auch das der Mitarbeitenden sehr am Herzen.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Der Radiosender Karriere.fm verbindet Musik und Social Media Recruiting und bringt so das Erfolgsrezept aus den Niederlanden auch nach Deutschland: Recruitainment.
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I learned how critical the role of HR is in fostering the corporate culture, developing the workforce and ultimately, in achieving business goals.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Roche is definitely focused on staff development and the performance evaluation method over the years has been more than fair, relevant and transparent.
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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.
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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
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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.
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…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: ...
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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.
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Fast 50 Teilnehmer hatten beim Roche-Evolution-Jahresevent vor allem eines im Sinn: das Thema Nachhaltigkeit
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“Doing now what patients need next’ means committing ourselves now, working to the best of our ability, to meet the needs of patients, including those still unexpressed.”
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I've been with Roche for 12 years. I actually started in 2001, in a company called Ventana Medical Systems in Tucson, Arizona, which in 2008 became a part of Roche. At that moment, I couldn't imagine all the interesting opportunities ahead of me!
moreSoy Médico con una especialización administrativa (MBA) y con amplia experiencia en el sector asegurador del país. He trabajado con el Ministerio de Salud (hoy Ministerio de Protección Social), varias EPS que son las entidades que administran la prestación de los servicios de salud de nuestro país (similar al Seguro Social de algunos países) y con la Sociedad Colombiana de Anestesiología y Reanimación, gerenciando una de sus unidades de negocio.
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My name is Till Dorin. I was born 34 years ago in Cologne and now live in Basel. I joined Roche in January 2008, having come from a consulting company. My focus was and still is SAP HR Systems. When I am not at Roche, I spend time with my little family. Coming home has been even more exciting since our little daughter was born in 2010. I love spending time with my friends and enjoying the Rhine in summertime.
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Meet Roche Diagnostics Swedens two little soldiers That are helping in its battle to stay green Most big efforts start with small initial steps. So when a Roche affiliate starts of on a major effort to do sustainable business, the first small steps are the most important ones. The Roche Diagnostics team in Sweden understands the value of going green but it is making sure that these efforts are well thought through and sustainable in the long run. For a start, among other steps, how about having two electric cars for all employees to use when they need to travel out of the office for a meeting!
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Salí al mundo laboral en 1998, después de trabajar 2 años en la ciudad de Osorno en el sur de Chile en una Clínica Veterinaria decidí buscar mejores rumbos y en año 2000 me vine a Santiago. Trabaje por mas de 3 años en uno de los mas grandes Hospitales públicos de Chile, el Hospital San José. Y tuve la suerte de ser participe del proceso de instalación del primer sistema informático de Laboratorio en red, en un hospital público en Chile.
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Soy Ingeniero Civil en Computación con mención en Informática, amante de mi familia compuesta por mi esposa Sara y mis hijos Héctor Fabian (10 años) y Oscar Javier (5 años). Mi tiempo libre intento aprovecharlo junto a mi familia disfrutando de una buena película en casa, en el cine o buscando qué cosas nuevas hacer para sorprender a mis hijos. Me encanta organizar reuniones para poder compartir con mis amigos y sus respectivas familias. Disfruto enseñándole trucos a mi Golden Retreiver llamada Mathilda o compartiendo una buena caminata con ella. También dedico unas horas al cuidado de mi acuario, el cual me ofrece un grato momento de relajo.
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My name is Thomas Blättler, I am married and have a one year old son. In my spare time I love to spend time with my little family and friends and to be out in the nature with skis, a mountain bike or hiking boots. This year on April 1st I celebrated my fifth anniversary at Roche Diagnostics. Time flies by. I joined Roche Diagnostics in Rotkreuz (Switzerland) right after finishing my PhD. The first one and a half years I was Consumables Project Leader before I was given the opportunity to build up and lead the Consumables Development department. Since January I am now heading Development Project Leaders of instrument projects for diagnostic systems.
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My name is Agata Bres. I come from the beautiful Masuria area of Poland, which is famous for its 2,000 lakes. I lived there until graduating with a bachelor 0019s degree in computer science. I subsequently earned a master 0019s degree in software engineering in Germany. I started my professional career at Siemens Healthcare in Bavaria, where I had a pleasure of assisting in the development of a software product used in the treatment of cancer patients. This experience gave me the opportunity to improve both my personal and professional skills. In February 2012, after spending seven years at Siemens, I decided to move to Switzerland to start a new chapter in my life. I began to work for Roche Diagnostics.
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People development is one of the critical focus points for Roche. A common focus among the many people development initiatives is people exchange. This allows talent to take an assignment to a different part of the organisation to gain more insight and experience both from a cultural and work perspective. Meet Dennis Chua, Diagnostics Finance Controlling Supervisor, and learn more about his experience during his job rotation and find out what he enjoyed most during his time on exchange.
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Mi experiencia laboral comienza en el año 2002, ingresando a Farmacias Cruz Verde en el área de Recetario Magistral (laboratorio de producción de medicamentos). Mi primera función fue la visita médica y comencé poco a poco a desarrollarme dentro de la compañía. Durante los casi 10 años que estuve en esta empresa, tuve la oportunidad de proyectarme terminando como jefe del laboratorio, teniendo a cargo al personal y la dirección estratégica comercial de la unidad de negocios hasta Marzo del 2011.
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My Name is Niclas Hitziger, I am from Germany and joined Roche in 2007. I am a molecular biologist. Before I joined Roche I worked as a Postdoc at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. When I have time like to do sports like biking, hiking and running but my current focus is to spend most of my time with my family.
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I was born in Malaysia and my family migrated to Sao Paulo, Brazil when I was 7. I studied economics in the University of Sao Paulo and in 2005 began my internship in Roche Latin America (also located in Sao Paulo). After a year working with Regional Business Planning, I was offered another internship which would require a change in my professional focus: 6 months in Marketing, assisting Roche Brazils Herceptin Product Manager. Once I decided that Marketing was what I really wanted, I returned to the Regional Area in a position as Marketing Analyst for Avastin, where I would be for the next 2,5 years.
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Working in technical services is such a great job because I learn things every day and it enables me to continuously grow and adapt to changes. My work offers a lot of challenges. I became more responsible, results-oriented and more mature in this company. Roche has given me the opportunity to have a training outside of the country and I was once assigned to work in another affiliate for half a year. more
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He trabajado desde que salí del colegio como Secretaria, profesión que estudié en un Liceo Técnico. Comencé en Soprole como Secretaria del Depto. de Estudios de Mercado para luego trabajar en la Sub Gerencia de Marketing, luego trabajé en una Empresa de Ingeniería, y después en una pequeña empresa de Diagnóstico llamada Inmunotec S.A., donde aprendí a conocer este mundo de Test Pack para Análisis Clínicos y de donde vienen varios compañeros de trabajo actuales en Roche.
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Tengo 36 años estoy casado con Bárbara hace 18 años. Tenemos 3 hijos Sofía, Marcos y Catalina. Me gustan los deportes y actividades al aire libre, en familia o con amigos.
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I studied medicine at Tartu University. My clinical medical career remained quite short, as I moved into the pharmaceutical business almost 15 years ago. This long-term work in Pharma was the reason why a few years ago I obtained a second masters degree in health sciences, focusing on health-care management.
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People development is one of the critical focus points for Roche. A common focus among the many people development initiatives is people exchange. This allows talent to take an assignment to a different part of the organisation to gain more insight and experience both from a cultural and work perspective. Meet Erin Noel, Financial Business Analyst, and learn more about her experience during her job rotation and find out what she enjoyed most during her time on exchange.
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My name is Monika Vogt and I am from Switzerland. I have a background in Economics and Business Administration with a major in Human Resources Management, which I studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Olten, Switzerland. I have around 14 years of HR experience, of which I spent 10 years at Roche. Having joined Roche as a recruiter, I moved into an HR Business Partner role and later on worked as a talent scout. Since September 2015 I have been working as Head of PT (Pharma Global Technical Operations) Recruiting Basel & Kaiseraugst.
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Tell us a bit about yourself Hello everyone, my name is Daniel and I am a Talent Scout at Roche, where I work with Pharma Research early and late Development. I was born in a smallish city very close to Berlin, Germany. I started my career in the late 1990s at a big regional wholesaler in Germany, where I spent several years as a personal assistant to the general manager. After that, I switched to a sales position at one of Europe 019s top three electronic retailers before finally finding the line of work I am currently in. Back then I would never have considered working for one of the world 019s biggest pharmaceutical companies. The birth of my daughter was a major milestone in my life because it demanded a lot of flexibility from me.
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My name is Judith and I work as a recruiter for Pharma Technical Operations. I tend to think of myself as a head hunter who switched sides from executive search to in-house recruiting. At the end of the day, it 019s not that much different. I keep trying to find the needle in a haystack, assessing talent and moving people from job to job and from country to country.
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My name is Carmen Pfeiffer and I come from the southern part of Germany, close to the Swiss and French border, an area which is called 01cDreiländereck 01d. I have worked with Roche for 10 years now. My hobbies are travelling (especially to Asia), cooking, and I am addicted to a lot of American TV shows. I joined Roche Grenzach right after my studies in 2002, in Manufacturing Controlling. After two and a half years in this position, I decided to pursue a career outside of Roche, by working for one year at a local hospital in the finance department.
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I started working at Roche in 2010 as a trainee. I joined a two-year programme in Regulatory Affairs tailored for young graduates to get first-hand working experience. After one year in Global Regulatory Affairs followed by a six-month rotation in a global business team, I was offered a permanent position in Global Regulatory Affairs Oncology.
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I’ve been working in the PCOR Neurosciences group for just over a year. Before starting at Roche I was working as a clinical psychologist in older adult mental health services...
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It’s an interesting job with good development and future career opportunities in a big multinational company.
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Soy Lcda. en Nutrición Humana. He realizado cursos en: diabetes, nutrición en pacientes quirúrgicos, estrategias clínicas para prevención de enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles y obesidad infanto juvenil.
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Roche es una compañía de excelencia y todos trabajamos en equipo para que nuestra empresa funcione de forma óptima, basados en principios corporativos, que nos hacen más fuertes y más grandes.
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Me considero una persona sencilla, muy apasionada por las cosas que hace, responsable y que disfruta del presente, no solo porque me gusta lo que hago sino porque lo hago para Dios.
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For the 6th year in a row, Roche have been recognized by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) as leader of sustainability in the pharma, biotechnological and bioscience sector.
moreYou spend most of your time with them. With a single word, they can make or ruin your day. They know more about you than does your own mother. They're your co-workers and your associates, your bosses and your employees, your clients and your colleagues. In fact, all of your workmates have an enormous impact on your mood, stress level, and emotional well-being.
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If you have to think in which job you have feel more comfortable, you will have in consideration the atmosphere in which you were working. And quite probably you would choose as the best place to work in which you feel more contented. There are many other factors that...
moreAdjust your attitude. The fastest way to insure a positive first impression and this needs to be done before you enter the meeting room is to strike a power pose. Stand with your feet at least hip-distance apart, hold your head high, pull your shoulders back, and stretch out your arms. Research shows that if you hold that pose for two minutes, you will feel (and be perceived as) more confident and competent as you walk into the interview.
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When I was a child, I always aspired to follow the footsteps of my brother Dr. Virsen J. Ruparel, who not only served the diseased patients and their families but the entire medical fraternity with utmost humility and dedication
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Without a doubt development opportunities and professional growth are important factors when it comes to deciding which company to work for. A candidate does not just take into consideration the chances to get a promotion in a new position, but he or she might also think about new and challenging projects and tasks that could arise in the future.
moreEvery day we hear about people making radical career changes. The opportunities exist, but will all these changes make us any happier once we get there? Maybe the question is not how can I get the job Ill love? , but how can I love the job I have? Following are four practical steps towards coming to terms with why you do what youre doing. Take some time to think about it, and you might be surprised by what you find.
moreBefore you say a single word to the interviewer, you have already made an impression based on how youre dressed. The guidelines given here are commonly accepted as appropriate for interviewing. Every company has a different dress code; how you dress at the job may have very little to do with how you dress for an interview.
moreWe know eating a nutritious lunch can improve our health and productivity, but it turns out how, where and with whom we eat our midday meal is just as important as what we eat. While you may think youre being more productive by eating lunch at your desk, taking your lunch elsewhere may be the best thing you can do for your own health and the health of your business.
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What makes Roche a great place to work? Here, Senior Healthcare Compliance Manager Lesley talks about her role and gives insights into life with the company.
moreIn the current job market, you'd better have your act together, or you won't stand a chance against the competition. Check yourself on these 10 basic points before you go on that all-important interview.
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My name is Rajesh Rajendran, Senior Consultant Technical and Application at Roche Professional Services based in Chennai which is the regional headquarters for Roche in South India.
moreIt's a lot easier to put on a happy face at the office when things are going well. But in lean times amid hiring freezes and an unpredictable future, it can be difficult to remain optimistic when you're on the job, especially when bad news about the economy is prevalent. Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want, has pinpointed several strategies to help anyone become happy. "Everything I say is based on science," she says. "The strategies I've chosen are supported by studies that have tested them." To start seeing your morning cup of coffee as half full, Lyubomirsky recommends that workers:
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In PIMS we believe in the importance of sharing our projects, and the weight of working in a good environment, and thats why we decided to create a frequent event where we can explain what we are doing...
moreSarah feels that Roche is unique as there are development opportunities that allow the employee to explore interests other than those in their scope of work.
moreMy job is interesting because I provide ongoing technical and scientific support for manufacturing to resolve issues or equipment/process troubleshooting as well as run lab experiments at small scales to prove a concept, and subsequently be able to implement changes to production scale for process improvement.
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I have been blessed with the best team and best colleagues from all cross functional areas. They make work enjoyable. They understand and encourage you to work towards achieving your goals and to find better solutions for the satisfaction of your customers.
moreWe've all had those moments at work. A difficult client turns a productive meeting sour. Your boss berates you over something you can't control. Or everything on a project just goes wrong within one miserable half-hour period. You feel your blood pressure rising and your breath quickening. You want to pound your fists on your desk, punch your computer monitor, and hurl your phone out your boss' window.
moreAs the old axiom goes, looking for a job is a full time job. Thats true whether youre conducting your search online or off. A job search on the Internet, however, exposes you to many potential distractions that are not found in the real world. Theres e-mail and browsing, chats and discussion forums, online poker and other games, and a host of other forms of entertainment, exploration and communication. And the key to job search success is to put them all aside. You must dramatically limit the time you spend on such activities and maximize the time you spend using the Internets job search resources.
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If you have ever asked yourself how working in a IT Infrastructure department in a big company looks like, you may be willing to see how we work in PIMS (Pharma Informatic Madrid Site) the Roche Global IT Center in Madrid.
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Roche has policies and processes that encourage employees to set aside time to focus without interruption on their most important priorities, including long-term projects and more strategic and creative thinking.
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In highly motivated work groups, it is usual to take common decisions in agreement. Everybody is listened to and involved so the whole team identifies with the plan (once we take a decision, we can sail to reach the objective, we've got everyone on board!). Tasks are delegated, areas of decision assigned, the team works as one body governed by a coordination but where each organ is autonomous and can take its own resolutions.
moreMaintaining a work/life balance is easy when youre a sole trader, right? You typically work from home and you have no one else to answer to, so it should be easy to switch off. Unfortunately, thats not always the case. In fact, many home-based sole traders struggle to strike a healthy work/life balance because the lines are more blurred.
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All I want to say is a gradual but huge transformation is required in a student to be a professional. This I have experienced with Roche during my traineeship. As an Employer, Roche provides enough guidance and opportunity to establish someone as a professional.
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I belong to a very small town in Haryana located at Rajasthan border named Loharu, with a very less illiteracy percentage. I always had a dream to be recognized amongst people. I came to Delhi and started my career and always strive for the recognition. I have worked in four companies but always I felt that something is missing.
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My name is Bejoy Baby. I am personally a very private person, very curious, always wants to know more, love watching movies, IT buff and into all things electronic. I wanted to be an engineer when I was young or thought I did until I grew up.
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Tuve varios trabajos previos, el ultimo antes de entrar en Roche fue en el Hospital Penna, de Bahía Blanca, en donde reparaba todo tipo de instrumentos médicos. En mi tiempo libre me gusta mucho compartir momentos con mi hija, jugar con ella, ir a la plaza, andar en bicicleta, pintar.
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Comencé mi carrera en la industria farmacéutica en el Laboratorio Parke Davis, adonde ingresé como cadete. Luego pasé a ser administrativo, para finalizar como vendedor de farmacias.
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Entré a Roche casi sin experiencia laboral, ya que al egresar de la facultad, fui directamente a trabajar becada en investigación. Así estuve dos años, hasta que me llegó la propuesta de Roche. Mi primera experiencia en la compañía fue como Especialista en Ventas en el Departamento de Biología Molecular de la División Diagnóstica.
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