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The Position

Workforce Optimization Intern (Strategic Workforce Planning & Skills-based organization)

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

This role is part of the Integrated Workforce Strategies Chapter within the People & Culture organization. Our purpose is to enable the business to achieve its ambitious goals while anticipating and adapting to a rapidly changing environment. We elevate the way leaders shape our future workforce by providing data-driven, skills-based workforce planning solutions to the business, such as Strategic Workforce Planning. Through close partnership with the business, we work on co-creating workforce strategies to close skills gaps. Additionally, as part of our transformation towards a skills-based organization, we drive embedding skills into our people practices, guiding our people & leaders to become future ready.

Shaping new approaches in this field, working with new technologies and cross-functional partners offers you great learning opportunities.

The Opportunity:

As an intern in the Workforce Optimization team for a 6-month period, your main focus will be learning about Workforce Strategies, Skills, and People Fluidity at Roche, and shaping and implementing frameworks at a global level. You will support the design of our products and playbooks, and the implementation of enablement strategies for various roles in People & Culture, the business, and partner functions.

Your contribution will be to:

• Support the design of various products and projects in the field of workforce strategies and planning
• Contribute to learning solutions that inspire and educate our partners
• Collaborate with the experts in the field in an agile working environment characterized by empowerment, open communication and willingness to test new ideas

Who you are:

• You are in your Bachelor or Master studies in the field of business administration, Human Resources, Organizational Psychology or similar
• Ideally, you have had a first experience (previous internship) in HR, Learning and/or communication field
• You can address complex problems and develop effective solutions
• You think creatively, and you enjoy the creation of effective presentations, learning material and experiences
• You are motivated to work independently in a collaborative and dynamic environment and can adapt to different needs
• You have a can-do attitude and growth mindset
• You are characterized by a high level of social competence and are able to efficiently communicate in English

Skills Needed:

• PowerPoint or Google Slide (required)
• Communication
• Simplification of concepts
• Creating processes, frameworks
• Excel
• Agile
• Creative Thinking
• English language

Your Benefits:

We attach great importance to making your internship as rewarding as possible. Right from the start, you will be warmly welcomed into the team and gain exciting insights into a wide variety of areas. The focus is on guaranteeing you a constant learning effect and bringing in your own ideas, promoting you in the process but also challenging you. Additionally, we offer you:

• Flexible working hours (37.5 hours/week)
• 2092 € remuneration per month for a full-time internship
• Reduced prices (-50 %) in our canteen
• Fitness Centre on the Roche Campus
• Training opportunities and exciting guest lectures
• Networking with other interns

Your application

Simply upload your resume.

Please remember, that this internship is aimed at students (m/f/d) who are currently enrolled for the entire period of the internship or, alternatively, at people in a GAP-year of a maximum of one year (between Bachelor's and Master's studies), where it can be proven in writing at which university/college and exactly when (month/year) within a year the studies will be continued.

Period: from August or September 2025 for a period of 6 months.

Work location: Mannheim (first location) or Penzberg

We are looking forward to your application!

Your contact to us! With people. For people.

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Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.