Careers Switzerland
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Solving the world’s greatest challenges together
At Bayer, generalists and specialists, visionaries and passionate people, thinkers and doers come together to feed the world, slow climate change, and create healthier, more sustainable lives for all. And we do that by sharing knowledge, learning from each other, growing as people and professionals, expanding horizons, and turning ideas into real possibilities. We’re real people with energy, initiative, curiosity, and dedication who want to drive positive and enduring change.
What makes Bayer an attractive employer?
Compensation & Benefits
Bayer is committed to offering its employees outstanding benefits. These significantly help to safeguard the health of both the employee and their family, increase financial security and help establish a healthy work-life balance, thereby improving quality of life.
We work to guarantee a high level of social protection in our workplaces. Almost all Bayer employees are covered by health insurance plans and have access to a company pension scheme. Working conditions for over half of our employees are governed by collective or company agreements. We continually strive to increase the range of benefits we offer and have set ourselves a target to provide all our employees with the highest possible level of social security in future.
One of the major guiding principles of our benefits and compensation approach is to tie salary to individual performance, thereby creating an incentive for personal success. We regularly measure our compensation structures against global standards and adjust wages and salaries to the individual requirements of each position. We supplement our wages and salaries with performance-based pay and numerous other attractive benefits.
Compensation
Our compensation packages cover the diverse needs of our global workforce and include, for example, basic salaries and wages, bonus schemes, long- and short-term incentives and additional services. In this context, we regularly consult external benchmarks and internal standards to assess salaries, thereby ensuring that our employees are paid fairly.
Social Security
It is important to us that our employees are well insured. With this in mind, we offer generous solutions for employee pensions and insurance for daily sickness benefits, occupational and non-occupational accidents.
Work-Life Balance
We are keen to promote a healthy lifestyle among our employees. We know that it is not always easy to strike the right balance between challenges at work and personal needs. This is why we create the right framework conditions to ensure everyone can reach their full potential – while staying healthy at the same time. Our vision is to enable us to work at our best as individuals and in teams in a culture based on trust. As part of our New Ways of Working approach, employees are allowed to work from home. We leverage our office for human contact and team exercises, for circumstances where face-to-face interaction can improve outcomes.
Benefits
Bayer offers different benefits at each site. These may include language courses, contributions to childbirth and weddings. And last, but not least, we also offer employees the opportunity to purchase Reka checks (a Swiss scheme for discounted holidays, leisure and staff catering) and various other benefits to round off our range of services.
Working Hours/Leave Entitlement
In Switzerland, Bayer uses the annual working time model, which gives employees the option of better adjusting their working hours to their workload, adjusting their workload to changing requirements in their private life (where appropriate), thereby bringing the interests of the company in line with their own.
Employees are entitled to between 25 and 30 days of leave, depending on age and functional level. In addition to general leave, employees may also request up to 15 additional days. Maternity leave is 20 weeks and paternity leave 20 days.
Working at Bayer
Bayer provides the ideal setting for personal ability and the dynamics of the life science industry to complement each other. Employees from over 60 countries work in an innovative, inquisitive, high-energy and dynamic, multicultural environment in one of the most interesting industries in existence. They can make a key contribution through their performance to the company’s sustained success in national and international business.
Graduates
We are always welcoming young and driven candidates, who can help us to gain a new, fresh perspective. If you are a tech savvy individual who will bring bounds of energy and enthusiasm, looking for innovative, diverse and inclusive company where you can start your career, why not Bayer?
Living in Switzerland
Most important things you need to know about life in Switzerland
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Most important things you need to know about work in Switzerland
Our locations
BASEL
Bayer Consumer Care AG
Peter-Merian Str. 84
4002 Basel
Tel.: +41 58 272 72 72
With a population of around 173,000 people, Basel is Switzerland’s third largest city. Located right at the triple border between Switzerland, Germany and France, Basel links the southern end of the Upper Rhine Plain with the start of the High Rhine. Thanks to its geographic position and diverse cultural offering, Basel, home to one our Life Science sites, is one of the cities, alongside Geneva and Zurich, offering the highest quality of life in the world.
Frequently asked questions about the Basel site
MUTTENZ
Bayer CropScience Schweiz AG
Rothausstrasse 61
4132 Muttenz
Tel.: +41 44 465 81 11
The industrial town of Muttenz lies to the east of Basel in the Canton of Basel-Landschaft. There are around 17,000 people who live and work here. In 1983, the municipality was honored by the Swiss Heritage Society for its efforts to maintain its historic buildings in a heavily industrialized environment.
Frequently asked questions about the Muttenz site
ZURICH
Bayer (Schweiz) AG
Grubenstrasse 8
8045 Zürich
Tel.: +41 44 465 81 11
With a population of over 445,000 people, Zurich is Switzerland’s largest city. Its stunning position on Lake Zurich coupled with the nearby Alpine scenery and urban diversity of the city give Zurich its unique flair. Located on the eastern Swiss Plateau, Zurich is one of the world’s best cities when it comes to quality of life.