Internship in External Quality for Students in Life Sciences

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The Position

The mission of External Quality:

• We serve our patients through external partnerships because access to quality products is every patient’s right

• We leverage external partners to offer flexibility to our internal capacity at the right cost and quality

• We enable our external partners to reliably deliver compliant, quality products to our supply chain customers so that we can deliver to patients worldwide.

• We do this through cross-functional collaborations, ensuring quality process excellence and continuous improvement.

Main Purpose of the Internship

You will provide support and learn to:

• Provide quality and compliance oversight for external GxP suppliers, including CMO, CLO, suppliers or distributors of direct materials and service providers to support Make Assess Release and Delivery of medicinal products

• Oversee all required quality activities during a GxP supplier's lifecycle (Source and select, Implement, Manage, and Decommission), including, but not limited to, Validations/Qualifications, Audits and Inspections, changes,investigations, and market complaints

• Develop, negotiate and maintain Quality Contracts and product-specific requirements (as appropriate)

• As applicable, release, reject or quarantine commercial medicinal products (drug substance or API, bulk drug product, and semi-finished and finished products) and medical devices produced within the area of responsibility per applicable Swissmedic and Roche requirements on behalf of the Responsible Person

• Support or lead supplier improvement initiatives to solve complex manufacturing or quality problems. Identify, design and implement process and system improvements

Functional Job Responsibilities

• Be accountable for behaviors described in Roche’s Code of Conduct

• Deliver business outcomes in support of departmental objectives

• Maintain and communicate work priorities to meet goals and timelines

• Timely complete all job-related training requirements before performing GMP-job functions and strive to continuously improve on knowledge and skills in quality, compliance and technology

• Identify, support and/or lead continuous improvement initiatives that may benefit External Quality and other organizations

Who you are:

• You are enrolled at a university for a master's degree or have finished your master's degree within the last 12 months in life sciences or equivalent

• Highly competent in MS Office or Google Suite applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, MS Project, etc

• Fluency in oral and written English is a must. Additional language skills are a plus

The internship will take place in Kaiseraugst.

The preferred start date of the internship is September/October 2024 for 12 months.

This internship is not suitable for a Master's thesis.

Due to regulations, non-EU/non-EFTA citizens need to provide a certificate of enrollment and a certificate from the university stating that an internship is mandatory and stating the length of it.

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 Kaiseraugst is a cornerstone of Roche's global production and logistics network. It employs some 1900 people out of the 10,700 employees at our Basel/Kaiseraugst site and is Roche's largest and most innovative packaging facility worldwide. 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.