Data Science & Analytics Student Internship within Diagnostics’ Global Capital Investment & Real Estate (12 months, Basel) (m/f/d) – Location Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland

F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG

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  • Post Date: 12. October 2023
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Data Science & Analytics Student Internship within Diagnostics' Global Capital Investment & Real Estate (12 months, Basel) (m/f/d), Switzerland

This is a unique opportunity to apply skills learned in academia to the broad field of corporate real estate and workplace.

Roche Diagnostics Global Capital Investment & Real Estate (CIRE) is responsible for providing an efficient, effective and sustainable working environment for 35,000 employees of Roche Diagnostics globally. This is done in various ways, from identifying and securing the right real estate solutions, developing the workplace strategy to understand local functional requirements, designing office layouts, constructing the facilities, controlling and approval of capital expenditure across the division in 106 countries around the world. In the context of the “post-covid workplace”, there has never been a more exciting time to shape the future of the working environment at Roche.

Our multi-disciplinary team offers the perfect environment for a motivated intern to apply and develop existing skills while learning many new ones, in a dynamic work setting.

The Student Intern Workplace supports Global lead for Workplace Experience in the delivery of best in class workplaces and experience strategies for our employees globally.   This includes working on the continuous improvement of our global processes, tools and dialogues with our local organizations to ensure we deliver consistent, high quality and engaging workplaces within Roche Diagnostics.  The Workplace focused projects you may be involved in could include the review of our existing data lake to extrapolate key insights which will drive the data driven workplace strategies and KPIs, to supporting in the real estate demand analysis process to right size/align our office portofolio to the needs of the local organizations’ evolving requirements.

We are looking for a motivated, engaged and mature self-starter, keen to grow beyond the core responsibilities outlined below.

The core responsibilities in this internship will be:

  • Real Estate demand analysis process 

    • Onboarding of the local project lead to gather required data

    • Analysis of data captured to develop initial recommended sqm requirements

    • Review and present findings and recommendations to local leadership

  • Improve data analysis and optimisation of existing real estate management tools

    • Continuous monitoring of the existing occupancy tool to ensure consistent data is captured and identify opportunities for improvement

    • Support to review and extrapolate critical data to drive the real estate demand analysis process and other relevant portfolio management processes

  • Deliver the global workplace survey across the portfolio

    • Manage the delivery of the survey for each location, as required

    • Liaise with external service provider to update and optimize the survey for each location, as required

    • Review data captured, prepare the workplace survey findings for each location, and present the findings to the local project team

The creative core responsibilities in this internship will be:

  • Analyze workplace utilization data in order to help draw conclusions on optimal asset operations

  • Design and implement improved data management protocols - process design and data management

  • Support to gather project data, analysis of said data to create charts, diagrammes and outputs to deliver an effective presentation to stakeholders

Who you are: 

  • You are currently enrolled in your Bachelor or Master course in the fields of Data Analytics or Real Estate.

  • You have a technical background, with a passion for data management/analytics and telling compelling stories

  • Someone with high attention to detail, good communicator and strong people skills

  • Proficient in English, a second language is an asset

  • Experience with Tableau and other data tools are desired, proficiency in Google Suite (gMail, gDoc, gSheet, etc.) is beneficial.

If you want to use this internship towards the practical part of a degree (i.e. Master’s or Diploma thesis), please include this information in the application. 

The preferred start date of the internship is November 2023 for 12 months. Please clearly indicate your earliest availability on your motivation letter. Applications must include a current CV and a motivation letter.

The preferred start date of the internship is November 2023 for 12 months. Please clearly indicate your earliest availability on your motivation letter. 

Remote work possible after initial onboarding 2 days/week. Office anchor days in Basel Mon-Weds.

Applications must include the following documents:

  • A current CV

  • A motivation letter

  • A certificate of enrollment at a university (you must be enrolled during the entire length of the internship)

  • A certificate issued by your university stating that a 12-month internship is a mandatory (integral) part of your studies

We are looking forward to your application!

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.

Basel is the headquarters of the Roche Group and one of its most important centers of pharmaceutical research. Over 10,700 employees from over 100 countries come together at our Basel/Kaiseraugst site, which is one of Roche`s largest sites.Read more.

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 also 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.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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.

Basel is the headquarters of the Roche Group and one of its most important centres of pharmaceutical research. Over 10,700 employees from over 100 countries come together at our Basel/Kaiseraugst site, which is one of Roche`s largest sites. Read more.

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 also 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.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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