2026 Summer Intern - Business Strategy & Operations: Product Development Data Sciences (PDD)

Roche • Boston, MA

4d • $21 - $40 • Remote

About The Position

This role is based in Business Strategy & Operations (BSO) which serves as the strategic backbone and operational enabler for Product Development Data Sciences (PDD). The function ensures organizational excellence through robust quality frameworks, optimized resourcing, and aligned strategic execution. BSO brings together cross-functional capabilities across quality and compliance, workforce planning, and strategic operations to empower leaders and teams to deliver with focus, transparency, and accountability. By connecting enterprise priorities with operational realities, BSO drives consistency, clarity, and coordinated progress across PDD and the broader development organization. This internship position is located in Boston, Fully remote. The Opportunity: As a Strategy & Operations Intern, you will support day-to-day strategic planning and operational activities within PDD. You will contribute to enabling alignment to PDD priorities, planning, tracking, and reporting activities, and assisting with cross-functional initiatives that help ensure effective and efficient execution across PDD. Develop a foundational understanding of PDD strategy, operations, and reporting processes, to enable strategic recommendations and decision-making around how we operate across PDD Assess existing metrics, reports, and dashboards to determine relevance, usage, and decision-making value Revive, prioritize, and rationalize metrics, focusing on eliminating low-value or duplicative reporting and rolling-out an evolved metrics dashboards Review end-to-end processes (e.g., onboarding, contracting workflows) to identify friction points, redundancies, and opportunities for automation, simplification, and efficiency gains Develop an approach and governance for maintaining and validating the “sources of truth” across PDD operations Contribute to preparation of presentations, communications, and materials for functional updates, governance forums, senior leadership reviews, and evolving sub-functional or PDD-wide requirements in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders and leadership

Requirements

• Must be pursuing a Bachelor's Degree (enrolled student).
• Must have attained a Bachelor's Degree (not currently enrolled in a graduate program).
• Must be pursuing a Master's Degree (enrolled student).
• Must have attained a Master's Degree.
• Degree in business, life sciences, public health, data sciences, engineering, or a related field.
• Experience or knowledge within automation / AI, metrics, dashboards, and performance frameworks (e.g., OKRs, KPIs).
• Comfortable with a continuous improvement mindset and challenging the “why”.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and eager to learn in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Collaborative, curious, and proactive, with a willingness to take ownership of tasks.

Nice To Haves

• Complements our culture and the standards that guide our daily behavior & decisions: Integrity, Courage, and Passion.
• Exposure to project management, consulting, operations, or strategy coursework or internships.
• Experience creating presentations or working with data in gSheets, gSheets, gDocs, or similar tools.
• Strong interest in healthcare, pharmaceutical development, data-driven organizations, or strategy & operations.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day strategic planning and operational activities within PDD.
• Contribute to enabling alignment to PDD priorities, planning, tracking, and reporting activities, and assisting with cross-functional initiatives that help ensure effective and efficient execution across PDD.
• Develop a foundational understanding of PDD strategy, operations, and reporting processes, to enable strategic recommendations and decision-making around how we operate across PDD
• Assess existing metrics, reports, and dashboards to determine relevance, usage, and decision-making value
• Revive, prioritize, and rationalize metrics, focusing on eliminating low-value or duplicative reporting and rolling-out an evolved metrics dashboards
• Review end-to-end processes (e.g., onboarding, contracting workflows) to identify friction points, redundancies, and opportunities for automation, simplification, and efficiency gains
• Develop an approach and governance for maintaining and validating the “sources of truth” across PDD operations
• Contribute to preparation of presentations, communications, and materials for functional updates, governance forums, senior leadership reviews, and evolving sub-functional or PDD-wide requirements in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders and leadership

Benefits

• Intensive 12-weeks full-time (40 hours per week) paid internship.
• Program start dates are in May/June (Summer).
• A stipend, based on location, will be provided to help alleviate costs associated with the internship.
• Ownership of challenging and impactful business-critical projects.
• Work with some of the most talented people in the biotechnology industry.
• This position also qualifies for paid holiday time off benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern