Grow with us

Lifelong learning, building advanced skills, and personal growth are what make long-term success possible. And because we recognize the essential benefits they provide both for us and for our employees, Boehringer Ingelheim actively invests in all of them.

Our commitment includes:

• Investing in our people through development

• Promoting accountability

• Building an agile way of working

Our investment in personal development

Our internal learning environment, the Boehringer Ingelheim University, gives you access to a vast array of learning and training content that empowers you to develop your own path and shape your own future. 

The 70-20-10 approach

We follow the 70-20-10 approach, where most of the learning takes place in your daily work (70%) and through feedback from others (20%). The remaining 10% comes from formal training, development programs, and courses.
Within our learning landscape, we provide you with specific solutions tailored to what you do, what you need, how and where you need to learn best.

Our Boehringer Ingelheim University meets our needs and yours: it fosters strong performance and emphasizes agile and innovative working, but also assures your long-term career readiness and brings opportunities for knowledge sharing.

Our learning opportunities

Whether formal or informal, our learning and development techniques reflect our genuine commitment to helping our people realize their full potential, building challenging and rewarding careers, at every level of the organization.

Leadership programs

We have several programs aimed at the 360º development of our current and future company leaders. Find out more here.

Global Mobility 

As a truly international organization, we can offer our people the chance to work all over the world, experiencing new markets and new ways of looking at the world. Find out more here.

Mentoring, coaching and feedback

There is no better resource for learning about how we operate than the people who work here. We set great store by the systems we use to do share their insights. 

One-to-one mentoring is a great way to transfer expert knowledge in fine detail, enabling the next generation of specialists to find out how it’s really done. We also enjoy great success with reverse mentoring, cascading knowledge from our digital natives to their analogue seniors.
When an employee has a specific issue to work through, coaching can support them as they reflect on their experiences, identify the problem, and find a better way of doing things.

And because we can all learn from each other, wherever we are in our careers, we are committed to 360º feedback – not as a performance assessment tool but as a confidential resource for individual development.

Our academies

Boehringer Ingelheim’s functional academies are the backbone of our formal learning. Carefully designed learning systems in specific fields are available to any employee who wants to upskill. For example: our University of Medicine Excellence, our Data Science Academy, our Language or Digital Workplace academies and others. They’re all accessible via the Virtual Campus of Boehringer Ingelheim University.

Further qualification programs

We encourage our employees to earn further qualifications via external programs. We offer access to MBAs, postdoctoral programs (see below), and other relevant courses from a range of selected universities and business schools, leading to diplomas and further academic degrees.

Our postdoctoral program

Promoting scientific excellence is one of the ways we grow sustainably, together. If you’re a talented and ambitious scientist, Discovery Research - our postdoctoral program - gives you the opportunity to break new ground in cutting-edge research with industry experts and colleagues. As a postdoc fellow, you’ll explore challenging areas of research, creating starting points for new therapeutic concepts and technologies. You’ll pave the way for the discovery and development of breakthrough medicines that will transform the lives of patients for generations.

Other learning opportunities

These are just the basics of what we offer by way of learning and development opportunities. We don’t have room to go onto our topic hubs, our external learning partnerships, or our growth mindset development program. But we do have room to tell you that, if you join us, you won’t just be working with us. You’ll be growing with us.