What is it that defines Celgene? Is it our unique pipeline and our innovative approach to treating disease? Is it our cutting-edge research addressing the source of disease? Our growing reputation as an important contributor to medical progress? Our commitment to healthcare providers and compassion for their patients? While each of these factors contributes in significant ways to what Celgene is, they represent only part of the story.
Most fundamentally, Celgene is its employees – now more than 1500 strong – who are focused on the single mission of delivering innovative therapies to patients with unmet medical needs in cancer and inflammatory diseases. And what a varied group of talented people they are, including Ph.D. bench scientists, sales representatives, manufacturing engineers, clinical doctors, lab technicians, marketing staff, regulatory experts, accounting and finance personnel, clinical coordinators, senior executives and human resource managers. As different as each of these positions and the individuals who hold them are, they are united in their commitment to discover, develop and market life-enhancing drugs that make a measurable difference in the lives of millions of people. Our employees are in the right place, at the right time, doing the right things, to build on the Company’s scientific and commercial achievements.
Celgene has been fortunate to attract employees of the highest caliber since its earliest days. More recently, as our rapid commercial growth has required the acquisition of specialized skills, we have benefited from the increased availability of highly trained and qualified individuals as a result of consolidation in the pharmaceutical industry. We are gratified that these individual have decided to build their careers at Celgene. We believe that our ongoing success will enable us to maintain this extraordinary level of commitment and to continue to attract the best people at every level of the organization.
Professional Development
At Celgene, we hire talented people, provide them with challenging opportunities and engage them in their development. The result is an organization of talented, engaged and committed employees who rank among the top business professionals.
Our guiding principles for employee development are:
- Managers must know their people, their capabilities and aspirations.
- Job assignments are used to develop our leadership and drive business growth.
- Feedback and rewards reinforce performance and developmental messages.
- Development occurs throughout one's career and occurs company-wide.
- Managers are accountable for the vitality and diversity of leadership depth.
These principles provide the framework for development at Celgene, and help to develop plans to maximize performance and career potential. Celgene offers a wide array of programs and tools to support them, including:
- Orientation programs to get employees off to a good start
- Performance and development feedback for everyone
- Professional courses to supplement on-the-job experiences
- Educational assistance for external coursework
- Easy intranet access to development and career management information and tools
- Celgene University (a work in progress)
Celgene is commitment to learning and development and we are proud of our people and committed to their growth - they are the key to our success.
Diversity at Celgene
Celgene has demonstrated its ability to attract, develop and retain the highest caliber talent and to fully leverage that talent to achieve consistently strong business results.
- Respecting differences in life experiences, cultural backgrounds, work and life styles that add value to our business.
- Recognizing and responding to employees' needs for work/family life balance.
- Providing development opportunities that enable all employees to continually improve their capabilities and contributions.
- Creating a work force, at all levels, that reflects the diversity of our community and the population at large.
Our Workforce
Our business teams require a variety of thought, energy and insight to attain and maintain a competitive edge. We know that the strength of our company lies in the combined contributions of the individuals who make up our business teams. Celgene's employee population includes talented professionals with diverse backgrounds committed to achieving Celgene's goal of providing solutions for unmet medical needs in cancer and inflammatory diseases. Out of Celgene's employee population in North America:
- Approximately 1 out of every 3 Celgene employees is a person of color
- Approximately 1 out of every 2 Celgene employees is a woman
We believe that our ongoing success will enable us to maintain this extraordinary level of commitment and to continue to attract the best people at every level of the organization.
Benefits
Celgene is proud to offer a broad array of benefits designed to enable you to build a program that meets your unique needs. When compared to benefits packages at other high performing drug industry employers, Celgene's rank in the top tier. Through annual evaluation and fine-tuning, Celgene keeps its benefits competitive and maintains their value to employees.
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