Do you want to be a part of a winning team?
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.
Doing something meaningful. Together.
Growing more crops on less land, taking swift action to slow climate change, and bringing the right treatment to patients when and where they need it. When it comes to tackling the world’s great challenges, we rise to the occasion. Because our people experiment and innovate in an expression of our collective culture. They affect change – big and small – individually, as teams, or as part of globe-spanning innovation initiatives.
Underpinning our focus on innovation, sustainability and the cultivation of a more inclusive and equitable world is the firm belief that living our values and empowering everyone at Bayer is key to achieving our purpose as a life science company and our vision “Health for all, hunger for none”.
Bayer advances a culture of Inclusion, Equity and Diversity to drive innovative solutions. We embrace and encourage our employees’ unique identities and believe that our human capital is one of our most valuable assets.
CREATING THE BEST BAYER
What if we worked with high creativity and low hierarchy? What if we were more impactful and less bureaucratic? What if we were more collaborative than competitive? And above all, what if we felt nothing but passion for what we do?
We call this system Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO), and it’s built on five core principles:
- Mission-first: Focus everything on Health for all, Hunger for none.
- Collaborative mindsets: Foster a community that enables creative mindsets and behaviors.
- Customer-centric: Deliver faster, more impactful innovations to the customers that depend on us.
- Employee empowerment: Those doing the work also make the decisions. We’re shifting 95% of decision-making from management to the people doing the work.
- Nimble working cycles: Embrace continual improvement, with a bias for action, in 90-day cycles.
If you want to know more, then join us on our journey of Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO) and learn more about how we are transforming the way we work at Bayer.
Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO) What is it?
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The international role brings its own twists and turns to Tarja's work: "Sometimes I might work in the evening or take a break in the middle of the day. The nature of my work is well understood at Bayer. The employer is also flexible in my direction, which I think is great
Tarja Nurmi Senior Expert, Developability & Biopharmacy, Finland
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Quality is my thing, and my ability to make challenging decisions backed by strong arguments is one of my strengths.
Eerika Vuorinen Technical Quality Assurance Specialist, Technical QA & Validation, Finland
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My supervisor and I constantly discuss my tasks, responsibilities and development areas. I feel that I am listened to. A good example of this is my future transition to project work. I had always been interested in project work and wanted to learn more about it.
Tiina Malinen Production Supervisor, Implant Production, Finland
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Different cultures, thoughts and ways of acting bring content to one's life. It is worth quickly seizing different opportunities to expand your own perspective to new things and phenomena.
Niko Laihinen Reliability Manager, Plant Engineering, Finland
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I think that it requires a company to have trust in its personnel, to give such good opportunities to develop oneself by moving from one task to another. For example, I had no previous experience in front-line supervisory role, but I have received training and support to develop in that area.
Sanni Saarinen Production Supervisor, Implant Production, Finland
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Although I do production planning locally, I am constantly in contact with our global operations and in dialogue with suppliers around the world. Working with different work cultures is educational and brings richness to the work.
Julia Kari Pipeline Planner, Production Planning, Finland
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Leading people in these changing situations fascinates me; how to involve people in the change and how to make the change meaningful for everyone? In that too, Bayer has offered me opportunities to develop my skills.
Terhi Heikkinen Chemist, Team Lead, Chemical Laboratory, Finland
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After all, it was a leap to come and work in the pharmaceutical industry, when I have previously worked in, for example, the ship and mechanical engineering industry and in project business. On the other hand, I knew that projects are projects, regardless of the industry, and that my skills will certainly be applicable.
Pertti Päärni Project Manager, Engineering Project Management, Finland
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It is extremely rewarding to know that our work is directly improving the status of women worldwide. This meaningful impact is always in the back of my mind as I work.
Sara Andersson Line Leader, Implant Production, Finland
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Remember to have fun with your team: Don’t put a glass ceiling between yourself and your teams. Be accessible, spend time with your teams and create moments and occasions to laugh and have fun together.
Dalya Heper Ertürk
Managing Director and Cluster Commercial Lead Pharma - Baltics
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Learning something new and having fun every day, encouraging, and helping colleagues to do the same is a part of the atmosphere in our team.
Josephine Muhrbeck
M.D., Ph.D., Cardiologist Medical Advisor, Cardiovascular, Sweden
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At Bayer, we take pride in our people who collectively strive towards our greater purpose of enhancing the lives of people worldwide.
Niels Bjerre
Agricultural Affairs Manager, Crop Science Denmark
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During my career at Bayer, I have been fortunate to engage with inspiring topics like continuous improvement and innovation, which are closely related to efficiency.
Tina Hietasalo
Senior OE Specialist, Product Supply - Supply Center Turku Finland, Pharmaceuticals
OUR LEADERS
As an employer, we offer our employees attractive conditions and development opportunities. Alongside with professional training, we focus on conveying our values and establishing a dialogue- and feedback-oriented corporate culture based on trust, intentional inclusion, respect for diversity and equality of opportunity. To shape this type of culture and to have a high engagement, we invest a lot in shaping our leaders to become the drivers of a coaching culture to support high performance, establish and maintain a safe environment that promotes psychological safety and trust. We ensure that they have the ability to develop their people and seeing their potential to grow.
WE ARE BAYER
About Bayer Nordic
At Bayer we always start by listening – because our customers are at the heart of everything we do. The needs of our customers and the challenges facing society inspire us to develop ideas that improve people’s lives. As part of the Bayer team, each of us needs to thoroughly understand and support our customers in order to deliver products and solutions that matter – now and in the future
Bayer Nordic is our regional organization for Northern Europe. You find us in Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and the Baltic countries, i.e. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. We are more than 1400 people who are passionate to make a difference.
In the Nordic region we have two global R&D and production sites, in Finland and Norway. The Turku-based production facility is one of the Group's global pharmaceutical production facilities, where medicines are manufactured for more than 130 countries. Over the last years Bayer has increased its investments, research activities and partnerships in the Nordics, and we are proud of being one of the most significant Life Science companies in the region.
Why Bayer? Because we’re a pioneer in the fields of human and plant health. Because we invent the solutions that will create a sustainable future for our planet. Because a career with Bayer means you can put your passion into practice and make an impact.