Corinne has been with Roche since 2013. She wrote her very first program when she was 10 years old and is hooked by technology ever since. Read more about her passion to change patients' lives through innovation and her journey of delivering impact from Software Engineering to Business Development.
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There is a great degree of trust and I’ve felt supported from day one to speak my mind and take the initiative in any topic I feel passionate about. Despite joining the company during a period with travel restrictions I’ve always felt the support of my colleagues.
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The Business Perspective programme helped me to find my happy place within the organisation. It gives you the opportunity to try out new things and to find the role that suits you the best. Spoiler alert: there might be more than one!
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Roche puts a lot of emphasis on diversity and inclusion, embracing different genders, nationalities and backgrounds, offering equal opportunities for professional development. In all areas I worked at Roche, people are fully passionate and willing to go the extra mile.
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Our work environment has a culture based on integrity, trust and respect. I love that the patient is at the centre of everything we do. I also deeply respect and am proud of my team members because they always do what is best for the team while keeping the patient in mind.
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Along this journey I found a passion for fostering a culture of respect, where people work together as equals and are empowered to contribute by bringing their own strengths, while receiving support to grow new ones. I truly believe that in such a culture together we can achieve everything for the patient.
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The Finance Perspectives Programme helps me to develop because of the wide array of topics and problems we are confronted with. One day might be about solving a supply-chain question related to a pandemic and the next working on HIV-testing on a continental scale.
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My internship at Roche was like earning a degree. I had the chance to interact with so many experienced colleagues in such a diverse range of projects, and this helped me to polish my existing skills and develop new ones.
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Being part of a project that directly supports the efforts of increasing the number of performed COVID-19 antibody and virus tests has been very rewarding. Learn more about Anna's work and her motivation as a Data Analytics Engineer at Roche Diagnostics in Rotkreuz.
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My work enables Roche to modernise the manufacturing and quality control network, while complying with the high standards of quality, safety and efficacy expected by health authorities and our patients around the world.
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Compared to my experience at university, science at Roche is more impactful. As a student we get first hands-on experience but we do this in our own small laboratories. At Roche, everything you work on has an impact on the daily life of our patients in some way or form.
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Healthcare Xplorers is our new innovation platform for students and PhDs, offering them the chance to solve real challenges from Roche business areas where data plays a crucial role and to submit their own ideas and research interests in the data sphere.
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Starting with being an intern, then writing my Bachelor’s Thesis, I am now happy to continue my journey with Roche. I came to Switzerland around a year ago and back then had no intention to stay longer than a year – however, things changed…
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Our employees are our most important resource to achieve our purpose. In my team we prepare our employees for the digital future so that they are able to change healthcare through scientific and technological innovations. Only if our employees can develop indispensable digital skills, they are able to provide the best solutions to our patients.
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Collaboration with Universities is key to be at the pulse of new talents and thus innovation. Students are fresh, bright, creative, and might see challenges from a different perspective. We were stunned by the creative new ideas during the students' hackathons in the area of Serious Gaming and Virtual Reality with the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
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Roche is dedicated to improving people’s lives, including during the current coronavirus crisis. Roche Molecular Diagnostics (RMD) teams have been working on the development of tests related to COVID-19. Since the tests have been on the market, a huge amount of data has been generated from various laboratories. Find out more about the impact of data science:
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The RiSM Programme helped me to develop because it allowed me to apply the knowledge I acquired during my Bachelor’s course in practice.
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At Roche, we do not only attach a lot of value to an environmental-friendly site, but also to our products. In my team we continuously search for ways to make the whole product lifecycle more sustainable.
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Today’s software projects are more complex than ever and require out-of-the box thinking and agile approaches like jumping aboard the DevOps train. Read Tanja’s story to learn more about her journey and why software engineering involves far more than just coding.
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Being proud to be a “firefighter” for our customers’ needs – solving problems as fast as possible means contributing to our patients’ health.
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The RiSM programme helps me to develop because of all the different, engaged colleagues I work with and meet at Roche. Besides improving my functional working skills, I can also benefit from their shared experience and knowledge to develop personally.
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In the Operations department, we are responsible for ensuring the continuity of our production. Especially in times of crisis, as for instance the Corona crisis, our work is indispensable to guarantee the supply of our innovative testing solutions to our patients from all around the world.
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The job in the DevOps discipline combines a variety of activities and skills, which can be quite challenging, but it’s also the reason why I enjoy coming to work every day.
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I joined Roche because I believe the global healthcare sector is both fundamentally important to society and has a lot of scope for improving the way patients have access and are administered to medicines, as well as education around how health can be managed in general through appropriate lifestyle choices.
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Currently, I am Senior Risk Manager within the Risk Advisory department. In this role my major tasks include the facilitation of the Group Risk Management process and improvement of the maturity of Risk & Opportunity management culture at Roche through training, assessments and consulting services.
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From an external point of view, software might not seem to bring as much value in the medical field as instruments, tests and reagents. However, every line of code I write is helping to diagnose and to treat someone out there, bringing them hope, knowing that their diseases and problems are identified and treated. It's an important part of the systems being developed by Roche. One that will grow over the upcoming years as concepts like artificial intelligence keep shaping the world.
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My work at Roche helps to ensure that patients have access to high-quality products. Our aim is to provide more medical progress for society at lower costs.
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I began my career with an apprenticeship as a chemical laboratory technician. After gaining some professional experience, I then completed a chemistry degree specialising in biochemistry, before joining Roche Basel in biotech production, where I worked as a production engineer, Team Leader for the Small-Scale Pilot Plant and Head of QC.
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One of the biggest challenges I faced, was how to evaluate the usability of a large automation system in the early development stage without building up the physical solution. This was how the idea of evaluating the system in a virtual setup first came into my mind.
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The healthcare industry is rapidly evolving, but so are we, when approaching new challenges. At our department we utilize the latest technologies such as virtual- and augmented reality during product development. This allows us to make our solutions tangible in the early stages of the process.
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Roche as an employer is a company which encourages modern working such as part-time positions, working from home (where possible), women in leadership positions and much more. Our teams are diverse, which enriches the daily work and knowledge sharing enormously.
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I came across more ideas which culminated into something much bigger than I had expected. This is the beauty of a global accelerated development program such as the HR Perspectives.
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When people ask me how long I’ve been with Roche, I always say: “I’m home-grown”. I started as an intern with Roche 5 years ago and since then have had the opportunity to gain insights into a variety of our business areas and take over more and more responsibilities. Currently, I’m a Learning & Organizational Development Consultant.
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The passion for Women's Health shapes my work. Today, my focus is on fertility, pregnancy care and cervical cancer. Roche has highly innovative diagnostic solutions for Women’s Health, and our goal is to make them available to every woman in Switzerland.
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“After a few years of academic basic research during my doctorate in molecular biology, I felt that I wanted my work to have more impact on the treatment of diseases.”
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I like working at Roche because I can see, especially in the current situation with the global COVID-19 pandemic, how important our work is – not just for patients but for the whole of society. I love working with so many inspiring people and continuing my development and training all the time.
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Hello, I am Eliane Weiss and I am in my first year within the ORDP program. It is an exciting time for me right now, as I start my second rotation in a new department, a new project and a new team.
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By joining the Start IT programme at Roche after she graduated, Célia discovered how her passion for data can have an impact on people's lives. She has now joined the Roche family as an employee.
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You are a Bachelor (BSC), Master (MSC) or a PhD degree in Life Sciences and Digital Science who wants to contribute to a strong purpose? You want to apply your outstanding academic skills to improve patients' lives? A multinational work environment where innovation is a key driver for success is what you are looking for? To challenge your comfort zone to achieve better results is part of your DNA? Then Start Patient Safety is your next career step.
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My work helps Roche to deliver medicines to patients as I am directly involved in manufacturing biological, sterile, commercial products. We are working on accelerating production lead times, increasing quality performance and production line productivity in order to become even more agile, cost effective and capable in adapting to the new demands. We put the patient at the centre of our daily business.
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Roche is a company that aims to provide Personalised Healthcare (PHC). The idea is to get the right drug to the right patient at the right time. How can we do this? And how can we apply real world data?
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You can’t do Personalised Healthcare (PHC) alone. It has regulatory aspects, medical aspects, legal aspects, access aspects… the entire company has to come together to make it work.
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Do you want to know how I got where I'm today and who supported me along my way? The answer is simple: an awesome team, a unique company culture as well as great opportunities and support for personal development. Let me introduce you to my story of 10 years Roche...
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Learn more about some tips and tricks from Ann, Carla and Silke, female leaders at Roche.
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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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The Roche Internship Programme in Group Informatics (RiGI) is designed for technology and Computer Science/IT students (Bachelor/Master/Phd) to become an integral part of our company’s central nervous system - Roche IT - in Basel/Kaiseraugst, Switzerland. More information about the RiGI programme, you’ll find under careers.roche.ch/ritechit.
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''We are excited as we mobilize for the next phase of our Supply Chain Transformation here at Roche/ Genentech and have realigned our operating model for the future. Our focus will be connecting our Supply Chain by segment to the channel and patients and there are a number of great opportunities, we are looking forward to your applications to the roles below.'' Matthew Winterman
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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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The importance of data science in pharmaceutical and diagnostics has increased immensely over the past years. Dr Mohammadjavad Faraji, Senior Data Scientist at Roche, participated at the Big Data Conference in Warsaw, Poland where he was interviewed on the business value and the importance of data science in a non-IT company like Roche and the great opportunities he sees for data scientists in a corporate world.
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My incredible HR Perspectives journey started in September 2018, when I relocated to sunny Basel to join Roche within the Global Talent Innovation team.
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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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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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My work helps Roche to bring new, reliable Point of Care solutions to the market, directly to the patient’s bedside, to enable health care professionals to make the right decision in critical and life-threatening situations when time matters most.
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The Business Perspectives programme was an opportunity to meet and learn from diverse people across functions and geographies, and it taught me about myself and where I can best contribute.
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In my experience, Roche is a company that really provides the support its workforce need to learn and grow professionally. I started with Roche on an internship course 6 years ago and since then I’ve had the chance to work in 3 different roles and even move countries
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I love epidemiology, which is the art of understanding how certain factors affect health, but I’m equally passionate about the continual advances in the technology and methods. This attracted me to Roche.
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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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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 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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The Roche Internship in Kaiseraugst Operations (RiKO) Program offers every spring and fall semester six-month internships in Quality, Production, Pharma Technology, Process Optimisation, Employee Training and Data Management. In this program, you can assume responsibility, learn to play a proactive role, get a first-hand insight into our activities and processes, and find out what it’s like to work with colleagues and many different stakeholders.
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The culture at Roche is very open and people are approachable. They take their time to listen to what others think and feel, and are always willing to help in any way they can.
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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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The time I spend working with individual project leaders and research teams, understanding the amazingly innovative work they do, and helping them communicate their strategies and achievements, is probably the aspect I find most rewarding in my role.
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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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The RiSM programme gives students the opportunity to gain work experience in the pharmaceutical industry. The programme has helped me bolster my knowledge by simply giving me the chance to work and interact with industry experts.
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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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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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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 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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Being part of the supply chain that delivers Roche’s medicinal products to patients is an incredible feeling. It motivates me to achieve even the most challenging goals to a guaranteed high standard of quality.
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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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Roche as an employer rightfully prides itself on embracing diversity and inclusion as a key ingredient for its success. Employees are encouraged to be genuine and authentic and unafraid to challenge the status-quo.
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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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It was fascinating to experience a “start-up setting” within an established organization such as Roche and how much it differs in terms of pace, priorities, and challenges.
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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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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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Hi, my name is Moritz. I grew up in Mainz in Germany, a city similar in size to Basel and located about 30 km west of Frankfurt/Main. I studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Bingen and completed my degree in Bioinformatics in 2007.
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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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Hi, my name is Manuel and I am studying chemistry as part of my Master of Science (MSc) programme at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU), with an emphasis on organic and inorganic chemistry. I am currently doing an internship in the field of organic synthesis as part of the Roche Internship in Medicinal Chemistry (RiCH) Programme in Basel, Switzerland.
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I lead a global IT infrastructure consultancy team with team members in Basel, Penzberg, Sao Paulo, South San Francisco and Shanghai. In my role, I’m accountable for ensuring successful partnering within IT.
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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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After my Masters studies in Business Administration with a focus in Engineering and Finance, I joined Roche in Switzerland as a Global Finance Management trainee.
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In October 2017, I completed the HR Perspectives program and started to my post program role in Basel. I am working as a Talent Acquisition Expert and supporting both Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics divisions.
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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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My name is Aymeric Lagarde and I am from France. I was born in Reims, the capital of the Champagne region in the north-eastern part of the country.
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Roche Basel is a very international and dynamic site to work at. There are more than 10 nationalities in my team of 12 people. People bring their different backgrounds and experiences and are open to share best practices.
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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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I work at Roche Diagnostics in Rotkreuz and live in Arth, which gives me a very short commute, something I have come to appreciate very much compared to earlier jobs. The Rotkreuz site has grown extremely fast in the last years and therefore, many new and modern offices and production buildings have been built.
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Hi, my name is Cristina Varela. I am originally from Spain, from a small city called Ponferrada located in the north. I did my graduate studies in Labor Science...
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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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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.
moreI come from Kazakhstan, a beautiful and hospitable country. For the past eight years I have been living and studying here in Switzerland. Both countries have inspired me to learn, expand my horizon and meet new people. It energises me to make new acquaintances and friends. These are the three adjectives that describe me best: curious, organised and solution-oriented.
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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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My name is Nathalie Legrenzi. I am French, I studied in France, I live in France, but I 19ve never worked in France. I 19ve worked for Roche for almost 19 years.After spending a few years in two IT service companies in Basel I joined Roche in 1994. I spent the first 13 years at the Swiss headquarters in Basel, working first with Pharma Development and then as Information Manager for Strategic Marketing and Life Cycle Teams.
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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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