Current Vacancies at Roche Kenya

• To support the delivery of strategic projects within the Strategic Innovation and Planning team by providing research support and advanced analysis of markets, trends, customer information and other data sources that can inform and enrich team knowledge and project outputs. Support projects to ensure that project standards are achieved and that information generated throughout projects is properly stored and made available for future projects.

Key Responsibilities

• To capture and document the innovation being created beyond lessons learned to models and methodologies that can be replicated and eventually scaled with an emphasis on growing access through a business lens that emphasises a patient first approach to enterprise level service provision that can be scaled and replicated in other markets across the African continent, at a minimum
• Conduct end to end research as required to support the project deliverables by translating research into meaningful insights for the team. Create and maintain a database of data sources which can be used for future projects/initiatives. Analysing data sets and conducting primary research (where applicable)
• To forge relationships within the Strategic planning team through ongoing engagement. To work closely with the Strategic Consultancy on the sustainability and financial models for KCMC to ensure the COE is sustainable

Who You Are

• The applicants have completed their Bachelor’s or postgraduate studies at a university, preferably in the field of business, finance and/or commercial appropriate study fields within the last 12 months and are interested in applying your knowledge in a modern working environment as part of an internship of at least 3 months and gaining experience with public-private-partnerships in global health, business modesl and sustainability.

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The Opportunity

• Roche East Africa is looking for a highly motivated individual that can take up the role of People & Culture (P&C) Business Partner for our Pharmaceutical and Diagnostic Divisions.
• Our ambition is to make Roche the preferred healthcare company for the patients in East Africa by taking care and influencing the whole ecosystem that surrounds the patient.

Key Challenges

• You will be an agile business leader with a people and culture focus
• You will act as a coach to the country leadership and enabling teams
• Be a strategic and enterprise thinker for Roche East Africa, for the broader Roche network in Africa and for the rest of the P&C organization
• Be an architect of solutions that bring us closer to our ambition
• You will be part of the country’s leadership teams and make sure that the organization sees its culture and people as THE most important resource for the company.
• You will also be part of a strong network of P&C colleagues in EMEA, Europe and across the globe, bringing in your expertise while also using the network for finding solutions and inspiration.
• Through an honest, authentic and courageous dialogue at all levels you will unlock the greatness in all our people.
• Translating the business and P&C vision and goals into projects and initiatives will be one of your main tasks. And you can do this in a self-empowered way by creating teams and squads using the available P&C network.
• You are expected to diagnose P&C needs and to identify interventions that address issues of retention, change leadership, employee engagement, and leadership development, partnering with other Business Partners and P&C functions as appropriate.

Who you Are:

• You have a university degree, solid HR/P&C experience in an international business environment and ideally lead a team of HR specialists.
• A person who takes genuine interest in people and creates REAL connections with the people that surround you
• An agile professional who has a strong purpose and loves to see business grow as a result of our focus on people
• Someone who demonstrated passion for coaching and mentoring other leaders and professionals and has a very high self-awareness

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Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with other data scientists to develop reproducible codes for automating the mapping of EHR data to the OMOP common data model
• Developing codes for data mapping, cleaning, reshaping and loading data in SQL databases
• Defining Extract, Transform, Load or Extract, Load, Transform data engineering workflows for automating the data standardization and ingestion for large scale EHR
• Provide complete documentation and communication of all processes, methods, and results
• Work closely with other data scientists to develop processes to measure and ensure quality, completeness and integrity of the mapped data
• Engage in other department activities to ensure an inclusive and transparent work culture

Who You Are

• You are enrolled or have completed your Bachelor’s or Master’s studies at a university, preferably in the field of Biostatistics , Data science, Bioinformatics, Mathematics, Computer Science or a Life Sciences within the last 12 months and are interested in applying your knowledge in a modern working environment as part of an internship of at least 3 months and getting to know the pharmaceutical industry.

Furthermore you are

• Hands-on experience with real world data, especially OMOP Common Data Model and more specifically for mapping source data to the OMOP data model
• Experience working with SQL, R and/or python applied to medical data engineering for cleaning, reshaping data
• Experience working with genomics data, Standard Medical Vocabularies, like SNOMED, ICD10
• Experience with data quality assessment and data validation techniques
• Ability to understand scientific literature, experimental procedures and their limitations, and applications of this information in the research and clinical setting
• Experience working with RWD, EHR data, other common data models or global interoperability data standards are considered a plus
• A positive problem-solving attitude and you are solution driven
• An aptitude for developing software solutions to replace mundane manual tasks
• Have strong communication skills, both oral and written, with attention to detail