Roche Diabetes Care has chosen Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona) to install its Global Digital Center, an initiative with which it will create more than 40 highly qualified jobs, has reported in a statement on Tuesday.
Specifically, the company demands to cover these highly qualified digital positions with experience in international health care management, related to the start -up of new businesses in high -tech spaces, and most of this team mustcover through new hiring.
The new 'hub' will be dedicated to the design, construction, implementation and maintenance of digital platforms with which Roche Diabetes Care will communicate with the digital health ecosystem worldwide, which includes the development of Ehealth applications, marketing solutionsDigital and social networks.
The Vice President of New Business and Digital Solutions of Roche Diabetes Care, Yan Beynon, explained that the company has chosen Sant Cugat to install this digital solutions center after the good results recorded by the Global Information Technology Center in 2015In the same town.
"The innovative capacity and the technological ecosystem of the region and its attractiveness of talent are evident, and now it is materializing in this Silicon Valley of the Barcelona area with great speed and firmness," he said.
He added that, adding the positions in both centers, a hundred jobs have been generated so far, between direct and indirect employment: "To create this new digital ecosystem that can service the 30 million people currentlyAttended by Roche Diabetes Care, we need to attract the best talents available. "
Roche Diabetes Care is a pioneer in the development of blood glucose monitoring systems and world leader in diabetes management systems and services, one of chronic diseases with the greatest number of affected worldwide, almost 500 million people,And to deal with this challenge, the company will focus its digital operations in Sant Cugat.