Internship for Students of Life Sciences, Finance, Business Administration or related fields (starting in September 2024) - RAIR

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The Position

Immerse yourself in the fascinating everyday working life at Roche Diagnostics surrounded by beautiful mountains, not far from the scenic Lake Zug and yet close to the cities of Zug, Zurich and Lucerne. Here, where we have been rooted for over 50 years, we develop and produce diagnostic solutions and help to find answers to health questions.

The Rotkreuz site, where a wide variety of disciplines work hand in hand, is a meeting place for over 2,700 talented employees from 70 different nations. Our campus invites people to work together, be creative and realise their full potential. We believe that a positive work environment, employee satisfaction, inclusion and sustainability are key to growing together and improving the lives of patients around the world. Welcome to Roche in Rotkreuz.

Embark on a transformative learning experience with Roche Diagnostics through our Aligned Internship Program in Rotkreuz. Designed to nurture emerging talent, this program offers a dynamic and immersive opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the field of diagnostics, fostering personal and professional growth.

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The Diagnostic Partnering Strategy and Transactions EU Chapter, located in Basel & Rotkreuz, is an integral component of the Global Partnering organization, which is a collaborative team of self-motivated professionals that passionately identifies brilliant ideas, novel opportunities and compelling business concepts to generate objective and long-term business value to sustain the leadership of the Diagnostics Division. The Strategy and Transactions Chapter is specifically responsible for identifying, evaluating, and executing new business partnership and transaction agreements (across the entire range of transaction types incl Licensing, R&D-, Commercial Collaboration. Ecosystem agreements) with the external partner - in collaboration with all other team/squad members and internal stakeholders. On M&A (Acquisitions), we are working in a team together with a Project Leader from Group Business Development.

This internship position is located in Rotkreuz, Switzerland, hybrid.

Key Responsibilities

• Join teams/ squads and support with company, market and competitive research for potential strategic partnerships, alliances and/ or M&A transactions

• Prepare company profiles for senior leadership

• Provide support to chapter members and chapter lead in project tracking, support various departmental wide projects such as record management, process and database setup as well as to build and administer central repository for deals in that chapter

• Deliver various deal support, such as deal updates, summaries and reports, management of due diligence, financial models, building and tracking of our proactive partnering watch list

Who You Are

You are enrolled or have completed your Master’s studies at a university, preferably in the field of life science or related field, e.g. Microbiology, Chemistry, Medicine, Computer science or Engineering within the last 12 months and are interested in applying your knowledge in a modern working environment as part of an internship.

Furthermore you are

• You have solid good knowledge of Finance, Business Administration, and Business ideally through either a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, undergraduate or postgraduate courses, or relevant previous experience (e.g. internship in a consulting firm, bank or a corporate’s finance department). Current enrollment in an MBA program is an advantage.

• Strong MS Office / G-suite skills in particular PowerPoint/g-Slides and Excel / g-Sheets

• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills

• Hands-on, fast and highly results driven you focus on getting things done and put a lot of effort into driving projects to completion

• Knowledge of and interest in In-Vitro-Diagnostics preferred

• Well-organized and self-disciplined

• Fluent in English, other languages are a plus

Technical details:

The preferred start date for the internship is September 2024. Please state your preferred start date and the desired duration of the internship in your application.

Part-time employment is possible (at least 30 hours per week)

If required, it is possible to write a thesis during the internship.

The application deadline is April 30th.

Interviews will take place in the second and third week of May (between 13th and 23rd May).

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Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche Diagnostics International in Rotkreuz is a leading provider of diagnostic systems solutions, and the largest manufacturer of fully automated in vitro diagnostic systems in Switzerland. We are more than 2’700 passionate colleagues from over 65 nationalities. Find out more about our site in Central Switzerland, here.

Besides extensive development and training opportunities, we offer flexible working options, 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees benefit from multiple services on site such as child-care facilities, medical services, restaurants and cafeterias, as well as various employee events.

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and strive to identify and create opportunities that enable all people to bring their unique selves to Roche.