Working at Roche Pharmaceuticals

Working at Roche is more than a job - it's a daily obligation to maintain our personal integrity, think boldly and be passionately committed to improving lives. Here in Australia, we aspire to embody these company values in everything we do, cultivating a high performance culture that enables each of us to excel in our roles and to succeed for our patients and our stakeholders.

Proactive and Accountable

This means applying confident and critical thinking, speaking up, and seeking out diversity of thought to challenge the status quo in our decision making and actions.

Brave and Considered

We should be entrepreneurial and prepared to try new ways of doing things. It’s about learning to think more before taking risks and becoming comfortable with using principles and our judgment to make decisions. We can only focus on achieving greater outcomes for patients by stretching for the best. 

Committed to the Greater Good

The more we can do ‘what’s best for us’, and the more purposeful we are in our collaborations and balanced in our internal and external focus, the more accomplishments we will realise for the company, ourselves, and patients

Employees are offered competitive pay and benefits based on a global compensation strategy and principles, as well as local market practices.

Financial benefits

• Attractive bonus scheme measured against clearly defined job responsibilities, goals and contributions
• Additional superannuation co-contributions
• Novated leasing car finance options
• Roche share purchase plan
• Employee discount programs
• Medicines assistance for employees and their families

Paid Leave Benefits

• Parental Leave
• Discresionary holiday Shutdown leave
• Domestic violence leave

Non-financial benefits

• Employee recognition program
• Flexible working arrangements supported by technology
• Free on-site barista and fresh fruit and healthy snacks
• Modern office with roof-top garden
• Volunteering opportunities with our charity partners
• Roche Wellbeing program

The business world is changing. In our fast-paced and competitive environment, we recognise the need for flexible and innovative business practices that foster the growth of our employees and allow them to perform to their full potential.

At Roche our flexible working arrangements help our employees balance life and work, and are an important element in meeting the individual needs of our diverse workforce, increasing employee satisfaction, productivity and retention. 

Over 90% of employees access some form of flexible working. This includes all levels of the organisation – from the leadership team and right through the organisation. The focus at Roche is about output, productivity and performance, not about clocking on and off.

Trust and empowerment is an important part of our culture. With the support of technology (laptops, iPhones and virtual meeting technology), our employees are able to adapt their working times and practices to suit their individual situation, in alignment with business needs and job requirements and work remotely if appropriate (eg. working from home/interstate; from other affiliates; from global headquarters).

We care about what makes working at Roche a rewarding experience for our employees and we understand that many things matter: your health and wellbeing, receiving support to develop your career, having the tools to do your job and being recognised when you do it well.

We have established a comprehensive wellbeing program for our employees, which includes:

• Yearly health and skin checks
• Influenza vaccinations
• Free employee coaching and counselling service
• Free on-site Barista, fresh fruit and healthy snacks (Sydney only)
  
• Free Fitbit with challenges throughout the year (Sydney only)
  
• Free weekly yoga and pilates classes, boot camp and monthly meditation classes (Sydney only)
  
• End-of-trip facilities with showers, towels, hair dryers and lockers (Sydney only)
  
• Roof top terrace with outdoor seating, BBQ and herb garde n(Sydney only)
  
• Discounted health insurance
• Ergonomic office design with different styles of working spaces depending on needs
• Social events – celebrating successes, social BBQs, charity fundraising events, Friday afternoon social events
• A dedicated Global Wellbeing Week full of activities. 
  

To help each individual excel, we apply a strengths based approach to developing our employees. Strengths are a key foundation of frequent check-in conversations between managers and their employees regarding career and capability development. 

For over 120 years, sustainability has been an integral part of Roche’s business. In addition to improving access to healthcare, our company strategy also focuses on achieving continuous progress in areas such as people attraction and retention, social responsibility, environmental protection, and supply chain sustainability. You can read more about our sustainability initiatives here.