Employee Communications Intern - 12 Months

Roche fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, representing the communities we serve. When dealing with healthcare on a global scale, diversity is an essential ingredient to success. We believe that inclusion is key to understanding people’s varied healthcare needs. Together, we embrace individuality and share a passion for exceptional care. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Join Roche as an Employee Communications Intern at our Basel headquarters and become an essential part of our Employee Communications team. This role, situated within the Internal Engagement Center of Excellence, offers a unique opportunity to engage in both strategic and operational communications that connect our global workforce to Roche’s mission, vision, and values.

If you’re passionate about digital communication channels, storytelling, and collaborating across corporate, diagnostics, and pharmaceutical functions, this position allows you to apply your skills, gain hands-on experience, and contribute meaningfully to integrated communications campaigns.

The opportunity

An internship in the Employee Communications team offers you the opportunity to apply your skills and obtain insights into many parts of the company.

During your internship:

• You will be part of a global internal communications team, with team members based in Basel and San Francisco.

• Your role will focus on internal communications with a strong emphasis on digital channels. This includes managing publications on our company intranet, designing and laying out emails, and overseeing our digital signage system.

• You will work with us on a variety of integrated communications campaigns across Corporate, Diagnostics, and Pharmaceuticals, contributing to challenging projects and leading specific project components independently.

• You will gather, analyse and review data to optimise use of our channels and the impact of our communications activities.

• You will craft compelling stories and enhance storytelling across diverse formats such as written articles, email messages, videos, podcasts, and infographics to engage employees and strengthen internal communications.

• You will ensure our editorial calendar is up to date, efficiently manage content through our editorial planning tool Sprinklr, and help coordinate with global and divisional teams to align messaging and streamline communications efforts across the organisation.

• You will manage our global mailbox, shared drives, and distribution lists.

• You will design and develop presentations, ready-to-use training tools, and communication materials for internal communications.

• You will work under the guidance and mentorship of the Senior Manager, Employee Communications.

Your profile

• You are a Bachelor’s or Masters student in Marketing, Media and/or Communications, or a related field, or you just graduated.

• Previous work and/or internship experience is preferred.

• A passion for science and good understanding of healthcare, pharma or biotech industries including an understanding of the R&D processes is preferred.

• Excellent writing skills and creative thinking to be able to translate complex topics into simple, engaging materials for multiple internal audiences.

• Detail-oriented, well organised and able to thrive in a deadline-driven environment.

• Self-motivated, able to thrive in a non-hierarchical, self-organising environment, where teams form around projects and initiatives.

• Strong team player, highly collaborative with a ‘can-do’ attitude.

• Ability to deal with different activities at the same time, a flexible attitude to work and strong prioritisation skills.

• Data and insight driven. Familiarity with intelligence tools such as Google Analytics is a plus.

• Experience with design and web is preferred.

• Experience in video and graphic work is an advantage.

• Excellent English language skills (spoken and written), German language skills are an advantage.

Due to regulations non-EU/EFTA citizens must provide a certificate from the university stating that an internship is mandatory as part of the application documents.

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.