What it does: Leading provider of in-vitro diagnostics tests and systems that enable patients and doctors to make the right decisions on the patient's health and well-being.
Mission: Doing now what patients need next.
Size and presence: With a total staff strength of over 900, Roche has grown into one of the leading healthcare companies in Malaysia that provides holistic healthcare solutions to healthcare practitioners and patients.
Best known for: One of the world's largest biotech companies, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system.
The good bits: A company that cares for the employees well being.
The not so good bits: Originally decentralized, causing duplication of processes and tools.
Founded in 1896 by Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche, the company was early on known for producing various vitamin preparations and derivatives. In 1934, it became the first company to mass-produce synthetic vitamin C, under the brand name Redoxon. During the Second World War Roche collaborated with the Nazi regime in Germany and used slave labour in its German and Polish based factories. In 1957, it introduced the class of tranquilizers known as benzodiazepines (with Valium and Rohypnol being the best known members) It manufactures and sells several cancer drugs and is a leader in this field. In 1956, the first antidepressant, iproniazid, was accidentally created during an experiment while synthesizing isoniazid.
Three values sustain our culture and further our quest to help people achieve good health and longevity: integrity, courage and passion. We aspire to embody these values in everything we do.
Working for Roche means more than just having a job. To us, it means a daily obligation to maintain our personal integrity, think boldly and be passionately committed to improving medicine.
Our three Roche values are central to how we want to behave as individuals, and collectively as an organisation. We don’t just pay them lip service: they are binding for everyone who works for Roche in more than 100 countries throughout the world.
Integrity: We are consistently open, honest, ethical and genuine.
Courage: We are entrepreneurial and thus take risks, reach beyond boundaries and experiment.
Passion: We use our drive and commitment to energise, engage and inspire others.
We believe that a good business is an ethical business. By cultivating a culture of openness, we encourage everyone to grow their strengths, recognise and address their weaknesses, and continually strive to accomplish ambitious goals we’ve set for ourselves.
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We believe that employees who are engaged are key to delivering the highest standards and the greatest levels of innovation. That’s why we care about what makes working at Roche a rewarding experience for our employees. We know that many things matter to our employees: health and well-being, having a leader who behaves in a way that supports our values and leadership commitments, as well as having the support to develop your career, the tools to do your job and being recognized when you do it well.
That’s why we take the time to ask employees for their opinion and measure their engagement through regular global employee surveys. And that’s why we then act on the results – to build an ever better place to work for our people.
he average estimated annual salary, including base and bonus, at Roche is $127,863, or $61 per hour, while the estimated median salary is $123,189, or $59 per hour.
At Roche, the highest paid job is a Director of Security at $270,000 annually and the lowest is a CS Rep at $46,600 annually. Average Roche salaries by department include: Communications at $239,501, IT at $110,435, Product at $155,045, and Operations at $101,705. Half of Roche salaries are above $123,189.
75 employees at Roche rank their Compensation in the Top 15% of similar sized companies on Comparably (based on 232 ratings) while 74 employees at Roche rank their Perks And Benefits in the Top 10% of similar sized companies on Comparably (based on 79 ratings).
In conjunction with Roche’s annual corporate social responsibility event, Roche Children’s Walk, Roche in Malaysia successfully raised RM45,800 for two underprivileged children’s homes, Rumah Kanak-Kanak Triniti also known as Trinity Children’s Home, and Shelter Home, sanctuaries for orphaned, abandoned, battered, abused and neglected children. This fund-raising initiative, powered by more than 1,000 Roche employees from the pharmaceutical, diagnostics and the services and solutions division, raised funds to help improve the lives of these underprivileged children.
Roche has decided to close out a patent infringement lawsuit against AstraZeneca centering on the latter company's newly acquired rare disease drug Ultomiris. Roche’s Chugai Pharmaceutical and AZ’s Alexion Pharmaceuticals inked a deal to end a lawsuit claiming Alexion unlawfully used Chugai's patented drug-delivery technology to reduce the dosing frequency for blockbuster Ultomiris, a filing in Delaware federal court shows. The terms of the settlement remain unknown, and Chugai declined a Fierce Pharma request for comment. The two companies proposed to close the case Monday ahead of a long-delayed trial.