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The Position

Join our dynamic team at Roche and contribute to meaningful initiatives in sustainability and innovation. 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. As a sustainability and innovation intern, you will work on cutting-edge projects that align with our commitment to environmental responsibility, social impact, and forward-thinking solutions.

The opportunity

You will be joining the Product Development Knowledge Management (PDKM) team within Digital Strategy and Enablement, a team dedicated to fostering a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing. Our team has implemented a comprehensive Knowledge Management Ecosystem comprising innovative products, robust services, and dedicated supporting organizations. This ecosystem is designed to enhance our organization's capabilities in capturing, organizing, and sharing knowledge across various departments and teams.

You will play a key role in advancing our Digital Workspace through specialized taxonomy work tailored to meet our users' needs. By championing robust content and taxonomy management, you will ensure that content is well-structured and accurately tagged. Moreover, your contribution will be crucial in laying the groundwork for our knowledge graph project which aims to transform how we contextualize and leverage our data, enabling us to unlock new insights, streamline operations, and make strategic decisions across the organization.

This internship position is located in Mississauga, hybrid.

• Taxonomy and Content Management: Engage in taxonomy and content management activities including conducting content audits and mapping, categorization, and tagging, while ensuring data quality and consistency. Participate in workshops and collect user feedback to inform ongoing taxonomy refinement.

• Taxonomy and Ontology Development: Support efforts in advancing taxonomy and ontology development to enhance discoverability and accessibility of complex datasets, information, and knowledge, including aiding in the creation of ontologies that define relationships between content, essential for knowledge graph groundwork.

• Knowledge Graph Strategy and Implementation: Contribute to the overarching strategy for implementing and leveraging knowledge graphs within the Digital Workspace. Your insights will be key in exploring how taxonomies, ontologies, and machine learning can synergize to create a more interconnected and intelligent Digital Workspace.

• Knowledge Graph Visualization: Support the creation of visual representations of the knowledge graph, learning about tools and techniques for visualizing complex data relationships .

Who You Are

You are enrolled in Master's degree in the fields of Knowledge Management, Library and Information Sciences, Data Sciences, Computer Science, or a related discipline.

You have a strong interest 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

• Understanding of knowledge management, taxonomy management, and content management concepts and principles is required.

• Knowledge of ontology development, knowledge graphs modeling, and graph database technologies (e.g. Protege, Neo4j, Ontotext) is preferred.

• Experience in evaluating and recommending tools for taxonomy, ontology, and knowledge graph projects, complemented by practical experience with coding for data manipulation, visualization, and graph database integration is preferred.

• Foundational knowledge on how and where Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Model (LLM), and Machine Learning (ML) principles can be applied is preferred.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with an ability to effectively engage and manage stakeholders, foster positive relationships, and address needs and concerns within a cross-functional team environment.

• A growth mindset and demonstrate an eagerness for continuous learning.

Technical details:

The start date for the internship is 2. July 2024.

The application deadline is April 15.

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Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche Pharma Canada has its office in Mississauga, Ontario and employs over 850 employees. The Mississauga facility is bright, vibrant, fosters collaboration and teamwork, and is reflective of Roche's truly innovative culture.

As of January 4, 2022, Roche requires all new employees who work in Canada to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 on the date they take office. This requirement is a condition of employment at Roche that applies regardless of whether the position is on a Roche campus or remotely. If you have a valid reason for not being fully immunized, which is limited to certain specific medical reasons or other valid reasons protected by applicable human rights laws, you may request an exemption and / or adaptation measures regarding this vaccination requirement.