Student Internship IP2TIS 2024 - Adverse media in social due diligence: for Data Scientists, Busines

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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.

About us:

You will be part of the Sustainability & Risk team in Roche Diagnostic Global Direct Procurement (DOP).

We, DOP, are a global organization within Roche Global Operations.

Our teams are based in all manufacturing sites across five countries: Germany, Switzerland, the US, China and South Africa.

DOP is responsible for strategic supplier management and strategic procurement activities for finished goods, intermediates and raw materials directly related to production, as well as logistics services and product software.

The Sustainability & Risk team which you will be part of combines experts from the EU and Switzerland with diverse backgrounds.  Our work is dedicated to projects within DOP and across functions.

We strive to ensure holistic compliant, sustainable, risk-controlled supplier management across all spend categories. 

About the project:

IntegrityGuard has its focus on digital enhancement of due diligence before supplier onboarding.

Streamlined data gathering in adverse media analysis is key to enable risk identification, mitigation and informed sourcing decisions.

From harvesting, meaningful schema design and AI/LLM augmented analysis with an easy-to- grab output of risk based options for decision makers - this exciting role has many opportunities to positively impact the end-user`s success.

You will work closely with the cross-functional internal customers of the desired solution in an agile manner.  

Key Responsibilities:


* Identify and translate information needs of key stakeholders / users into data and information requirements


* Based on these needs and requirements, identify relevant adverse media mentions data sources 


* For the identified data sources, design and implement a pipeline to automatically access, ingest,, quality check, stage and analyze these data (might be structured or unstructured)


* Propose a framework and pipeline to continuously retrain the algorithm based on user input that serves as new ground truth


* Build machine learning algorithms


* Develop co...