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Job Description
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
A healthier future. It's what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come.
Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.
That's what makes us Roche.
The Opportunity
Roche Kenya is seeking a highly motivated and versatile Supply Chain & SHE Coordinator to join our team. This dual-focus role is accountable for ensuring the efficient, timely, and compliant execution of our in-country supply chain while simultaneously implementing and championing a robust Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) culture.
The ideal candidate will manage end-to-end logistics and distribution to deliver our innovative medicines to patients and customers, while also ensuring our operations adhere to all local regulations and Roche's global SHE standards. This position is critical for maintaining operational excellence, ensuring our right-to-operate, and safeguarding our people and products.
Key Challenges
Supply Chain & Logistics Operations:
- Drive end-to-end in-country supply chain activities, including Order-to-Cash, logistics, and distribution to ensure world-class service levels and timely delivery to customers
- Monitor inventory levels against sales forecasts to prevent stockouts and minimize excess stock, ensuring optimal availability of our medicines
- Develop and maintain strong, mutually beneficial relationships with customers, third-party logistics providers (3PLs), and distributors
- Track, analyze, and report on key supply chain performance indicators (KPIs), identifying opportunities for process improvements to enhance efficiency and customer experience
- Collaborate closely with Business Development, CRS, and Finance chapters to align supply chain activities with overall business objectives
Safety, Health, Environment & Security (SHE) Management:
- Implement and maintain SHE policies and management systems to ensure full compliance with local Kenyan regulations and Roche's global SHE objectives
- Conduct comprehensive risk assessments (including Biosafety), site inspections, and audits to identify, document, and mitigate potential hazards
- Lead incident investigations to determine root causes and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence, reporting critical situations to Group SHE as required
- Develop and deliver SHE training to promote a strong safety culture and ensure all employees and contractors are aware of their responsibilities
- Manage emergency preparedness and business continuity plans in collaboration with regional and group SHE teams
- Serve as the primary advisor to management on all SHE, Biosafety, and Security matters, including physical, personnel, and product security
Who You Are as an Ideal Candidate
Qualifications And Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Science, Business Administration, or a related field
- Minimum of 3 years of proven experience in supply chain management and/or administering SHE programs. Experience in the pharmaceutical, diagnostics, or a related regulated industry is highly preferred
- Proficiency in supply chain software, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, and SHE management systems
- Experience as an auditor and a strong understanding of risk management principles
Key Competencies & Skills
- Strong business, logistics, and supply chain acumen with an understanding of the local distribution environment
- In-depth knowledge of Kenyan occupational safety, health, and environmental laws and regulations
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to act as a connector between internal and external stakeholders
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities, especially under conditions of uncertainty
- A systems-thinking, solution-oriented, and enterprise mindset
- Ability to work independently and as a collaborative member of a team
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.
Principal Scientist, Human Genetics
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Job Description
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
A healthier future. It's what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come.
Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.
That's what makes us Roche.
The Opportunity
Roche Africa is seeking a Principal Scientist, Human Genetics (African Genomics Program) to join our team.
Are you ready to accelerate the application of African genomics to advance biological understanding and highlight novel therapeutic and biomarker strategies? The Genentech/Roche African Genomics Program invites applications for a Principal Scientist position focused on African genomics. Join us to leverage our extensive genetic, genomic, proteomic, and clinical data repositories with a focus on unique datasets generated through the Roche African Genomics Program. Drive innovative research strategies that allow us to describe the genetic basis of disease risk and therapeutic response, and to support patient stratification. Collaborate with recognized scientific leaders in industry and academia to make breakthrough healthcare solutions a reality.
Key Challenges
- Spearhead analysis of genetic and genomic data gathered from African and African-descent populations to uncover novel biology, in close collaboration with our academic collaborators and with the human genetics and computational teams within Roche
- Identify and characterize genetic disease risk, progression, and therapeutic responses in African- and African-descent populations
- Utilize large-scale experimental and computational capabilities, including AI/ML, to place genetic findings in their functional context
- Implement research strategies to translate these insights into novel opportunities for therapy, prevention and diagnosis
- Lead efforts in target identification, causal inference, biomarker discovery, and clinical strategies, working closely with our research and clinical development teams to prioritize and advance targets into therapeutic development
- Contribute to a collaborative community involving research biology, clinical development, translational medicine, and computational sciences teams
Who You Are As An Ideal Candidate
- You are a PhD with a strong focus on statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, or related fields, and strong proficiency in the development and/or application of statistical methods
- Strong computational skills, including large-scale data analysis and causal inference
- 5-10 years of experience using human genetics to understand diseases, in academia and/or industry with a focus on association studies in ancestrally-diverse cohorts
- Recognized leader in your field, equivalent to an assistant professor at a top research university
- Excellent research record with scientific publications in top-tier journals
- Passionate about leveraging emerging African data sets to solve biological questions and deliver health care advances
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to present and explain findings to diverse audiences (excellent written & spoken English are essential).
- Proven ability to deliver compelling external presentations
- Motivated to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative research environment
- Ability to operate independently, be an active proactive problem solver and demonstrate strong critical thinking and systems awareness
- Ability to travel
Preferred
- Experience forming and/or participating in consortium research efforts
- Experience in industry and/or biotechnology settings and/or public health/policy
- Fluency in French or Portuguese a plus
- Africa-based candidates strongly preferred (location preference: Nairobi, Johannesburg/Cape Town)
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.