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Employee Development

At Boehringer Ingelheim we know that we will only grow as a company if we grow our most important resource – our employees. We consider it our responsibility to empower and encourage the employees to produce results and increase their knowledge, skills and abilities. We believe in including our people in decisions about their own jobs, development and performance objectives.

In addition, the growing number of expatriate employees and short-term international assignments shows the continued acceleration of Boehringer Ingelheim’s global activities. We value our international network of professionals and the opportunities this business environment creates.

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Our corporate strategic focus: Lead & Learn

Lead & Learn: the ways in which we develop and deliver our corporate strategy – Value through Innovation – and meet the challenges of the future. It is where we are in our evolution and about how we work and grow together in the future. The way we work together is at the heart of employee-supervisor consultations. We ask ourselves:

Are we taking the initiative?
Are we connected?
Are we growing together?
Are we getting results?

Talent management: getting it right

Overall job responsibility: dialogue and sharing between employee and supervisor about expectations, accountabilities and accomplishments. To ensure and enable growth, we encourage open, honest and constructive feedback in both directions.

Performance goals

Goal agreements: variable performance-related goals add value. They make a significant contribution to putting our corporate strategy into practice.

Planning your development

Development planning: there’s no substitute for knowledge and learning, creativity and innovation, competencies and capabilities. We need to pursue all of these relentlessly and ensure they are meeting the organisation's current and long-term needs. Development planning includes:

Maintaining or increasing job proficiency
Employability
Personal growth
Expectation management

Developing today’s and tomorrow’s leaders

We provide all our people with opportunities to build on existing knowledge, abilities and skills, and that includes leaders. Our talent management goals require leaders who lead innovation and know how to make best use of our most important resource – our employees. Our leaders need to know how to develop and coach employees with a focus on identifying and nurturing the next generation of leaders to deliver best results.

Leader support – the BI Academy

Our academy supports company leaders in their key task of creating an organisational environment in which people can excel. In addition to wide-ranging managerial and leadership support, it also offers a large number of training programmes aimed at developing leaders’ professional skills.

Further qualification programmes

We encourage employees to enrol on external qualification programmes in order to obtain further qualifications. BI has a list of selected universities and business schools offering MBAs and other relevant courses leading to diplomas and further academic degrees. Suitable courses are chosen in a consultation process between the respective employee, supervisor and human resources department.

Evaluation of skills and competencies

Our employees can obtain regular and systematic evaluations of skills and competencies. These involve a self-evaluation process, a supervisor’s assessment and an online 360° feedback process. The Boehringer Ingelheim Corporate Competency Model we use for this is based on our Lead & Learn concept, part of the company’s corporate vision Value through Innovation. The model is designed to support employee development and can be applied either fully or partially to help identify priority areas of development and tangible learning objectives.

General management and executive education

We have a long and successful tradition of developing our leaders via general management and executive education programmes offered by leading international business schools.

Our Vision

Our goals and beliefs can be summarized in a few words: Value through Innovation, the central concept of our corporate vision.

Diversity & Inclusion

In the Boehringer-Ingelheim family, everyone is welcome. We know that our strength and our competitive advantage is also based on the fact that we promote diversity in all aspects of the company.

Responsibility & Commitment

Corporate citizenship and sustainability are just two ways we make sure we operate in a responsible, principled manner. Discover more here.

Discover our global career opportunities

We offer a wide range of career development opportunities in over 140 affiliates worldwide. Click on the globe to check out the local career sites.