Growing with us

Life-long learning, advanced skill acquisition, and personal growth are crucial to achieving and sustaining success. And because we recognize the essential benefits it provides for both the company and our employees, Boehringer Ingelheim actively invests in personal development and growth.

Our commitment to helping you be the best you can be, every day, includes:

Investing in our people through development
Promoting accountability
Building an agile way of working

LEARN - Our investment for personal development and growth

Boehringer Ingelheim’s learning environment – LEARN - provides holistic opportunities to build on your current strengths and obtain the experience and competencies you need to grow and achieve your full potential.

The 70-20-10 approach

Boehringer Ingelheim follows the 70-20-10 approach, where most of the learning takes place in your daily work (70%) and through feedback from others (20%). This creates an environment where you can drive your own development and growth. The remaining 10% comes from formal training, development programs and courses.

Within our learning landscape, we provide you with specific, solutions, tailored to the nature of your job (e.g. employee, manager, etc.), the content that’s relevant to you (e.g. functional or extra-functional skill building, leadership development, etc.), the most effective methodology for you (e.g. classroom, experiential, etc.), your point of need (e.g. on the job, off the job, near the job) and your geography (e.g. global, local, regional, etc.).

LEARN accounts for business needs, fosters strong performance and assures sustained employability.

Our learning opportunities

Whether formal or informal, our learning and development techniques are the result of a lot of thought – and a genuine commitment to helping our people realize their full potential, at every level of the organization.

Leadership programs

We have several programs aimed at the 360° 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 a company operates than the people who work there – so we set great store by the systems we use to do that.

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 back up the generations 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 360° 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 available to any employee who wants to upskill, like our University of Medicine Excellence, our Data Science Academy, Language or Digital Workplace academies and others.

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 pursue cutting-edge research with industry experts and colleagues. As a postdoc fellow you’ll explore challenging areas of research, creating the starting point 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.

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