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With a workforce of roughly 1,200 people, Cilag AG is one of the major producers of the Swiss pharmaceutical industry and one of the most important employers in the Schaffhausen region. Perhaps you too will soon be joining their number?
Set up in 1936, Cilag AG has been a member of the Johnson & Johnson Group since 1959. The company is a centre for launching and boosting growth in parenterals and produces high-quality pharmaceutical substances and products, from which patients benefit all over the world. Cilag AG belongs to the group of Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical companies operating under the “Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson” trademark.
Since October 2015, Cilag AG’s market presence has been associated with the image of the Janssen trademark. By adopting the Janssen image, Cilag takes its long-standing membership of the Johnson & Johnson Group and its strategic significance within the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies’ supply chain into account.
Tips how to apply online – global and efficient
Cilag AG prefers online applications. That way we can send your profile on to the right place in our company straight away.
Applying online is beneficial for you as well. You are recorded in our database, and if you are not successful with regard to the position you have applied for the first time, it is possible that a post fitting your profile will come up at a later date, and we will be able to contact you direct.
Applying online for a job with Cilag AG – this is how it works:
1/ Please click on careers.jnj.com to log into our new recruiting tool and apply for an open position, there. For the location, please select Schaffhausen.
2/ Make sure that your application is complete, clear, well structured and easy to read.
3/ Attach your letter of application with your professional aspirations and goals, your current CV and any other documents as files (please confine yourself to upload not more than 2 attachments). This way, your file can be distributed more easily internally.
4/ Label your attachments (use PDF, Word or Excel files) as follows: Application, CV, Reference, and Qualification4/ Certificates.
5/ Do not send encrypted files.
6/ Do not send files that are too large (images), which cannot be opened by the recipient. Ensure that the attachments are no more than 2 MB; this also applies to scanned photographs.
7/ Please do not send very large files (images) that cannot be opened by the receiver. Make sure that the files are no larger than 2MB; this also applies to scanned photos.
8/ Observe the additional notes here (DE)
How to find your way into Cilag AG
Are you looking for a new challenge, a traineeship or work placement? This is where you will find the most important information.
YOUR APPLICATION FOR VACANT POSITIONS AT CILAG AG
All our currently vacant positions are advertised under Current Jobs
Work Placements. Gain Work Experience!
Cilag AG is very open to work experience placements and every year offers diverse time-limited work experience placements in different disciplines:
– Placements as a prerequisite for admission to a course of study at a recognised college or technical college.
– Placements as part of a course of study at a recognised college or technical college (syllabus-compliant)
– Placements directly after completion of recognised professional training.
– Placements directly after completion of a course of study at a recognised college or technical college (including post-doctorate studies). Contact us and we’ll be pleased to tell you if we can offer you a suitable work experience placement.
Your employer
As a worldwide strategic development, launching and production centre for APIs (active pharmaceutical ingredients) and medicines, Cilag AG offers attractive roles in an international environment.
Pay / Bonus. Cilag rewards employees’ dedication
Cilag AG offers employees a transparent and fair salary structure.
In our unique pay system, each member of staff is allocated a particular level, depending on his/her area of responsibility, professional qualifications, training, experience and individual personal development. This individual classification is carried out by line managers together with the Human Resources department and is reviewed at least once a year.
All staff are included in our performance-related bonus system. Employees’ good performance, good team conduct and hard work are all rewarded by an attractive bonus. The bonus is dependent on the level to which business and departmental objectives have been met. A higher or lower bonus factor is ascertained according to the results of the personal performance appraisal.
The bonus is offered voluntarily by the company. According to business performance and prospects, each year the company decides whether, and how much of its resources to make available. The bonus is a way of further rewarding effort and very good performance that help the company to achieve its objectives.
Extraordinary performance may additionally be rewarded with on-the-spot awards and special bonuses.
Benefits
Cilag AG offers a range of benefits for insurance, products, sport, culture and much more:
/ Full receipt of SUVA accident insurance by CILAG AG (occupational and non-occupational)
/ 180 days’ paid sick leave, with a further 550 days at 90% pay per incidence of illness
/ Subsidised meals in the Cilag restaurant
/ Cut-price Johnson & Johnson items in our Johnson & Johnson shop
/ During lunch breaks, German and English language courses are offered which may be attended at no cost.
/ Up to 400 Swiss Francs of gym membership paid
/ 50% payment of half-tax subscription
/ Cheaper travellers’ cheques
/ Crèche
The Johnson & Johnson pension fund offers attractive performance
The Johnson & Johnson Pension Fund Switzerland provides retirement benefits for employees of the Swiss companies of Johnson & Johnson. The fund offers the basic statutory cover, but in most areas provides significantly greater benefits for members.
The Johnson & Johnson Pension Fund Switzerland is a Swiss pension fund with a defined contribution plan. Monthly savings contributions made by employer and employee are credited to the individual retirement savings balance, plus interest. On retirement this balance is converted into a retirement pension by multiplying with the applicable conversion rate. The earliest retirement date is the 58th birthday; the latest is when the standard AHV retirement age is reached (deferral up to the age of 70 is possible).
The plan was changed in 2014 to make it much more flexible. Employees can now select from three contribution scales, take their full savings balance as a lump sum on retirement and make voluntary additional purchases of regular benefits or contribute to additional accounts for an AHV bridging pension and early retirement at any time.
Around 6,100 employees are currently members of the pension fund. Some 1,100 people are receiving a retirement, disability or survivor's pension.
Cilag is committed to diversity
At Cilag, men and women of a huge range of nationalities and age groups work together with different values, mindsets, needs and a wide variety of cultural and social backgrounds. With their unique points of view they help the company to continue innovating. The diversity of our staff is not only a valuable source of creativity and experience – diversity in terms of culture, gender and age is also a factor for commercial success.
With its diversity programme, Cilag places an emphasis upon gender. The aim is to have a good balance at all levels between female and male staff. We take measures to increase the number of women at all levels and to raise the number of women in management and the management of the future.
Your development opportunities at Cilag AG
Cilag AG places great importance upon individual training and development opportunities for staff.
Staff development. Make use of the opportunities!
Johnson & Johnson offers its staff a broad spectrum of training and development opportunities. Training is usually in the form of “on-the-job” experience. We employ people who we believe possess knowledge or leadership qualities relevant to our future. But you don’t become that kind of leadership personality overnight.
This process of development begins on your first day and continues throughout your entire career with Johnson & Johnson. Johnson & Johnson’s philosophy is to encourage staff, and to improve their performance and skills throughout their career by regular participation in relevant training events – and not just when you are promoted or your responsibilities change. Cilag AG considers it important that its employees can carry out their duties to a high level and that they meet future as well as current requirements. We attach especial importance to maintaining and developing employees’ ability to learn and their flexibility.
Selection for training courses is made using performance appraisals and personal development plans (see Talent Management Process). This process enables you, together with your company as a whole, to gain a clear perspective on your work and further development.
Further training can come about through staff suggestions. This way, the process is advantageous not only for your company but also for you. The company supports its staff in this primarily through providing job-specific in-service and advanced training. Johnson & Johnson provides eUniversity, a worldwide common platform to support on-site training and e-learning.
TALENT MANAGEMENT. Make the most of your potential!
In all Johnson & Johnson companies, a continuous process of evaluating and monitoring staff capabilities is in place. The Johnson & Johnson credo and global management principles are the basis of the evaluation process, which identifies and assesses the need and opportunity for training.
One of the particular advantages of the process is the ability to have regular one-on-one meetings with your managers in order to evaluate your progress and performance in a structured discussion. The performance evaluation and personal development process is there to ensure that individual employees and teams know what is expected of them. They should all know, too, that their performance is acknowledged and that ways to continually improve individual, team and whole company performance will be found. The performance evaluation process forms the basis of personal development within Cilag AG or the Johnson & Johnson Group respectively. It enables the individual’s efforts to be matched to the goals of the company.
It is of great importance that every member of staff knows the route that their company is taking, what role they are playing in meeting its goals, and that they are in a position to give their utmost. Furthermore, the process helps individuals and their managers to identify areas with training needs. That gives everybody the opportunity to make the most of his or her potential.
Get your application right. First impressions count!
On an application you should leave nothing to chance. Prepare yourself as well as you can. We have put together a few useful tips for you.
The approach
A job application, besides a personal cover letter, should consist of a tabular CV and copies of your references.
Essentially you should work on the basis that human resources staff in businesses receive a stack of applications to look at every day. Your personal cover letter must therefore be all about being noticed and must be presented as well as possible – at the same time bearing in mind that inconsistencies and capabilities will be discussed by the interview stage, if not before.
It is important that the cover letter be directly related to the company and tells the company about your personal interests and skills. Show the company what you could bring to it and why you are important. Ask yourself:
– Why should Cilag AG employ me?
– What makes me so right for the job?
– What are my expectations of Cilag AG and this job?
Your professional goals and aspirations should also be clear. The cover letter should ideally be no longer than one page.
Approach via an online application
Cilag AG prefers candidates to apply via the Internet. The same rules apply to online applications as to a written application.
A few tips for applying online:
/ Make sure that your application is complete, clear, well structured and easy to read.
/ Attach your letter of application with your professional aspirations and goals, your current CV and any other documents as files. This way, your file can be distributed more easily internally.
/ Label your attachments (use PDF, Word or Excel files) as follows: Application, CV, Reference and Qualification Certificates.
/ Do not send encrypted files.
/ Do not send files that are too large (images), which cannot be opened by the recipient. Ensure that the attachments are no more than 2MB; this also applies to scanned photographs.
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