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

Learning Event Manager

The Opportunity

As a Event Manager for Commercial Excellence, you will lead the end-to-end design, coordination, and delivery of high-impact learning programs and strategic internal events across our global commercial organization. Working closely with dynamic multidisciplinary teams, you will foster an environment of continuous learning and collaboration that connects people across borders.

• Lead End-to-End Program Delivery: Scope, plan, and deliver high-profile leadership bootcamps, multi-day learning sessions, and interactive workshops in hybrid, virtual, and in-person formats.
• Curate Compelling Learning Journeys: Partner directly with internal subject matter experts and commercial leaders to shape agendas, structure content, and elevate participant learning experiences.
• Deliver Seamless Logistics & Production: Oversee venue planning, platform technology, audiovisual production, catering, and travel coordination, ensuring an engaging experience for speakers and attendees.
• Manage Financials & External Partners: Steer program budgets with accurate cost forecasting, coordinate agency partners and service vendors, and evaluate service delivery to maximize value.
• Guide & Mentor Event Teams: Lead, brief, and coach cross-functional event project teams to ensure aligned execution across all project milestones.
• Drive Impact Through Insights: Evaluate participant feedback, analyze post-event metrics, and implement innovative solutions to continuously refine future event experiences.

Who You Are

You are a proactive, organized project manager who thrives in dynamic international settings and loves bringing people together to share knowledge and spark innovation.

• You hold a degree in Hospitality, Event Management, Business Administration, Communications, or bring equivalent practical experience.
• You bring substantial experience successfully managing large-scale, multi-track events and learning programs from concept to post-event evaluation (experience in life sciences or healthcare is an asset, but not required).
• You demonstrate strong project management and budgeting capabilities, with the ability to navigate shifting priorities and keep multiple initiatives on schedule.
• You are an empathetic, clear communicator with strong relationship-building skills across varied cultures, working styles, and levels of seniority.
• You possess fluent English skills (spoken and written) and the flexibility to travel occasionally for on-site event execution.

In exchange we provide you with

• Development opportunities: Roche is rich in learning resources. We provide constant development opportunities, free language courses & training, the possibility of international assignments, internal position changes and the chance to shape your own career. 
• Excellent benefits & flexibility:  competitive salary and cafeteria package, annual bonus, Private Medical Services, Employee Assistance Program, All You Can Move Sportpass, coaching / mentoring opportunity, buddy program, team buildings, holiday party. We also ensure flexibility, to help you find your balance: home office is a common practice (2 office days/week ).  We create the opportunity for freedom in working, where your corporate and private life coexist in harmony.
• A global inclusive community, where we learn from each other. At Roche, we cooperate, debate, make decisions, celebrate successes and have fun as a team. That’s what makes us Roche.

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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.