About Roche:
We believe it’s urgent to deliver medical solutions right now – even as we develop innovations for the future. We are passionate about transforming patients’ lives. We are courageous in both decision and action. We believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work each day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigour, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow.
We are proud of who we are, what we do, and how we do it. We are many, working as one across functions, across companies, and across the world.
We are Roche.

About the Apprenticeship:
Our Product Development Informatics (PDIX) organization is co-creating a better future for patients through technology and information. We are an agile organization that brings together great people who are passionate about technology innovation, and who thrive in dynamic, cross-functional, and mission-driven teams.

Our agile organization is made up of structures called Networks and Chapters. “Networks” comprise business domain and technical experts aligned closely with our Product Development business partners to develop and deliver technology-enabled business strategy. Our “Chapters” are centers of expertise of deeply skilled people deployed for maximum impact. These teams work together to deliver outstanding value to our business, patients, and customers.

As a Data Science apprentice within the PDIX Data and Analytics Chapter, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to solve complex data problems enabling PD to transform data into actionable insights. You will collaborate with IT and business stakeholders to co-create data and analytics enabled solutions that help our teams fulfill our mission: to do now what patients need next.

The Product Development Data Sciences team in Welwyn Garden City is also seeking high calibre apprentices to join our teams to contribute to the development of our medicines, specifically the analysis, reporting and submission of clinical trial patient data.

In the biopharmaceutical industry, each data point is part of a patient's story and their contribution to developing better medicines and understanding disease. It is our responsibility to maximize the use of this data for answering new questions and enabling larger-scale analyses for generating new insights.

Successful candidates will use their data science and technical skills to contribute to the success of data science and insights generation at Roche working across diverse areas from the management and governance of data, to acquiring data and engineering solutions for visualising, integrating and analysing data, as well as ensuring data privacy,and also in areas such as learning and process management and healthcare compliance.

Apprentices joining Roche will work as part of a team in the Product Development Data Sciences department to deliver data and insights about our medicines and to provide solutions that aid the collection, databasing and analysis of clinical data for medicines in Roche’s diverse pipeline, contributing to the delivery of these to patients.

What you could be working on:

• Leverage business acumen and technical expertise to support the quick creation of high-impact Prototypes/PoCs

• Advanced data projects including predictive learning, neural networks, machine learning, anomaly detection, predictive analysis, exploratory data analysis and other data science practices

• Generating insights from data, enabling us to optimise business performance. Solve complex data problems and deliver the insight that helps to define our strategy and enable our organisation to reach our patients faster

• Collaborate in multidisciplinary agile teams to collect requirements, user specifications, approvals, and verify functionality and usefulness prior to full development of solutions

• Collaborate with Data Engineers, Architects and Data and Analytics specialists to build lasting solutions to our data modelling

• First or second class honors in computer science, Maths or related numerical discipline

• At least A level Maths or Statistics (or equivalent)

• Experience with Python programming

• Level 2 Maths and English

Application Process:

Stage 1: CV & Cover Letter

Please ensure you include a CV and a cover letter with your application. As part of your cover letter, Roche is keen to understand your motivation in applying for this position. You should, therefore, provide responses to the following questions:

• Why have you applied for this Apprenticeship program?

• If you had to choose a single example or achievement in your life, that you feel would make you suitable for this role, what would it be and why?

Your cover letter should not exceed one page. Please not that all applications without a cover letter will be rejected automatically.

Video Interview
Once the HR review is complete, you may be invited to complete a video Interview to support your application.

Stage 2: Assessment Centre

If you are successful at the Video, CV and Cover Letter screening, you will be invited to the final stage of the application process. This will include a face-to-face interview, and relevant activities critical for the role, giving you a taste of Roche and the opportunity.

Application Deadline: 20th February 2023

Start Date: September 2023

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.

Our UK Pharmaceutical head office is situated in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, with beautiful countryside surrounding the area. Supported by major motorways & airports as well as being a 30 minute train ride to London, access is easy. Our award-winning office, known as Hexagon Place, was opened in 2005 and provides a modern, flexible working environment with facilities that are second-to-none. Around 2,000 people work at our Welwyn office in Global Early Development (pRED), Global Product Development (PD), Commercial (Rx) and our Corporate functions.

Roche offer a competitive salary plus the excellent benefits you would expect from a blue-chip organisation. There is a fully equipped gym on-site, a library and information centre, and an active sports and social club. We also have a subsidised staff restaurant providing foods to cater for every taste throughout the day. At the heart of the building is an informal meeting area known as The Street which features a coffee shop, snack machine and cashpoint. A second building on-site, called The Hub, contains modern meeting room and conference facilities. Roche promotes personal well-being and work-life balance. Therefore, flexible working options will be considered for all roles at Roche UK. Roche is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment. The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of Roche.

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of Roche Products Ltd. At Roche Products we believe diversity drives innovation and we are committed to building a diverse and flexible working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability or age. We recognise the importance of flexible working and will review all applicants’ requests with care. At Roche difference is valued and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer where you are encouraged to bring your whole self to work.