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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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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My work helps Roche to make sure patients receive our products all over Europe and continue their treatment. It’s extremely rewarding to know that I’m helping cancer patients, among others, who desperately need our products.
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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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“The great thing about working in the pharmaceutical industry and in product development safety is that there is not really a typical day.”
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I have always been focused on solving the puzzles related to Alzheimer’s disease and other psychiatric diseases. I am a medical doctor with expertise in clinical pathology, neuroscience, and psychiatric disorders. Currently, I work as a Global Medical Leader for Alzheimer’s disease Partnerships between Roche Pharma and Roche Diagnostics.
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Hello, I am Myriam Eutamene, I joined the ORDP family in September 2019. I was born in France, but I grew up in Hong Kong and ended my studies in Uppsala, Sweden.
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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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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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We have a tall order to meet, making PHC a reality for every patient. It comes with navigating uncharted territory, breaking new ground.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hi, my name is Dean and I am a British citizen. I joined Roche from the United Kingdom, where I was working as a management consultant for the pharma industry.
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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'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!
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My name is Susanne and I am originally from Magdeburg in Germany. I work as a formulation scientist at Roche. I studied pharmacy in Germany but this was not what I thought I would be doing...
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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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