Internship in Innovation & Sustainability - For students in the field of Sustainability and Environmental Sciences or Industrial Engineering

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections,  where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

  Our Global Internship Programme in Innovation & Sustainability (#IP2TIS) offers a unique opportunity for passionate individuals to gain hands-on experience in the pharmaceutical industry while making a positive impact on the world.

Are you ready to join a global network spanning 20+ countries, where bright minds collaborate to tackle real-world challenges in Innovation & Sustainability? Do you want to work on impactful projects, shape the future, and drive change from within?

As an intern, you will contribute to Project Second Life, an initiative focused on increasing circularity for laboratory furniture and components at Roche sites in Basel and Kaiseraugst. The project aims to create a structured and scalable reuse system for high-quality lab furniture from renovations by improving inventory transparency, evaluation processes, and internal redistribution. Within your first 3 months, you are expected to help deliver a verified digital inventory, support the integration of additional storage sites, refine circular processes for collection and redistribution, and create communication materials that promote reuse across key target groups. Your work will help reduce waste, conserve resources, improve cost efficiency, and increase the availability of tested furniture without long procurement lead times. This internship offers a valuable opportunity to work at the intersection of sustainability, operations, and digitalization with visible impact on circular economy practices.

The Opportunity

• Support the recording and validation of laboratory furniture and component inventories across storage sites, existing stock, and new storage locations

• Prepare, structure, and digitize data such as photos, specifications, and storage information for the central database

• Assess stored items and help create decision-making criteria for storage, redistribution, sale, or disposal

• Contribute to the development of a verified and categorized digital catalog of available materials

• Help identify and integrate additional storage sites into the central inventory system

• Create high-quality presentations and information kits for internal committees and stakeholder groups

• Promote the reuse concept among planners, laboratory construction teams, and users to strengthen acceptance and adoption

• Document optimized processes for collection, inspection, and redistribution as part of the refined circularity concept

Who You Are

You are enrolled or have completed your studies at a university, preferably in the field of Sustainability and Environmental Sciences or Industrial Engineering 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.

Furthermore you are

• Able to understand, document, and improve logistical and operational processes

• Careful and structured in inventory validation, quality checks, and data management

• Interested in circular economy principles, resource conservation, and practical sustainability solutions

• Comfortable working with databases and digital tools, and highly proficient in common presentation and documentation software

• A clear communicator with good German skills and English knowledge

If you meet most but not all qualifications, we still encourage you to apply.

Additional information

The internship is expected to start between 1 and 16 July 2026 and will last at least 3 months.

For more information about IP2TIS and to explore other opportunities within the programme, please visit go.roche.com/ip2tis_26._  

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.