People & Diversity
A key success factor for Sartorius is its approximately 13,500 ambitious employees from more than 100 nations. We believe that different perspectives are crucial to better understanding our customers and finding innovative solutions. Therefore, one of our strategic goals is to create diversity throughout the company.
To this end, we actively recruit people of different origins, cultures, genders, ages, physical and mental abilities, educational backgrounds and career paths and encourage them to work together.
Insights into Diversity at Sartorius
Read More About Our People and Their Stories
Voices
Marie Brandt, founder of the LGBT+Friends Alliance
By establishing the LGBT+Friends Alliance employee resource group, we've committed ourselves to promoting equality for Gay, Bisexual, Transgender queer and intersexual people. Sartorius supports the work of the Alliance to increase the sense of belonging and acceptance of employees and allies who identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Aubrey Pratt, Principal Embedded Software Engineer
For anyone seeking to understand or be an ally, self-directed education can go a long way in helping colleagues in the LGBT+ community feel supported and respected. The emotional labor of creating a more accepting workplace should not fall to LGBT+ colleagues. We must all do the work. I’m an out trans person in an office that is predominantly cisgender and heterosexual and if everyone had just one question and they directed all those questions to me; it would be overwhelming. I love answering questions, but I encourage people to do their own research as well.
Jessica Cruz, Manager of Engineering Single Use Technology
In my career, I was always the only woman or person of color in the room that was an engineer. At Sartorius, I am surrounded by a very diverse group of engineers and we all support each other. That kind of forward-thinking is a great step to promote representation in the STEM field.
Febin Varghese, Automation Engineer
My international assignments have offered me mobility across geographical and cultural boundaries. I do face cultural differences. The best way to overcome these challenges is to be a "highly culture flexible" person. The social support and the support from the company and from both the host country and the home country helped me to easily adapt during the assignment period.
Dineen Sigona, Perfomance Management Specialist
Diversity and Inclusion is personal to me. I'm gay and I have an adopted son, who is also gay and Hispanic. We have been subjected to a lot of negative situations and he has been discriminated against for both reasons. It's especially important in these challenging times that we ensure we are fostering a work environment where everyone feels welcome, equal and valued. It's vital to embrace each others differences.
Joe Brendle, Product Specialist Freeze & Thaw
It's important to understand intrinsic bias. We all have our biases and there are some we don't even realize we have, but when we evaluate our own behavior it can lead to better self-awareness. Through my church, I've done some work and reflection in the area of social justice. I'm glad Sartorius is actively working on establishing D&I in the workplace more and more.
Policies and Documents
Sartorius offers its employees all the benefits of a global corporation as well as the opportunity to make change happen and, together with a motivated team, to shape the future. Positivity in the workplace, flat of hierarchies, quick decision-making and open lines of communication form the basis of our collaboration. Our policy on labor practices and social standards are clearly defined based on a standardized approach.
Sartorius offers a broad range of continuing education courses consisting of management and communication training seminars, as well as technical training sessions, at all sites. Mandatory annual performance reviews between employees and their managers provide a forum for discussing performance, goals and individual development opportunities. We conduct all annual performance reviews worldwide using the same criteria. Sartorius fills management positions from within whenever possible.
Sartorius adheres to high safety standards to minimize job-related medical conditions, health risks, and potential industrial accidents. The basic principles on occupational safety and health protection are defined throughout Sartorius in its corporate policy on workplace safety and health. We incorporate guidance from the International Labor Organization (ILO) as well as national regulations and recommendations. We continually improve our job safety and work organization conditions. Planned, mandatory employee training on occupational health and safety as well as environmental protection ensure that our staff members recognize risks and avoid them accordingly.
With around 8,000 suppliers from more than 40 countries and a purchasing volume that corresponds to more than 40 percent of sales revenue, the Sartorius supply chain plays a significant role in the company's sustainability transformation. We expect our suppliers and their suppliers to meet sustainability standards.
Our sustainability requirements are set out in our Code of Code of Conduct for Business Partners, which was updated in 2022 and which 2,675 of our suppliers have signed. This corresponds to 45% of the purchasing volume.
In addition, the company has received a total of 1,779 valid sustainability-related supplier self-assessments. We also conducted 62 quality-related supplier audits ourselves, which included sustainability aspects.
Our Partnerships
Sartorius has entered a cooperate partnership with the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (HBA). The non-profit-organization promotes women's business networks and career advancement in life sciences.
Sartorius is a partner of myAbility.jobs, a job platform for people with disabilities operatated by myAbility, a social enterprise that promotes an equal-opportunity and barrier-free society.
Sartorius is a partner of the LGBT Network , a non-profit organization that is a home and voice for LGBT people, their families, and supoort systems of Long Island and Queens.
Employee Resource Groups Supporting Diversity & Inclusion
LGBT+ Friends Alliance
The group strives to enhance the visibility of LGBTQIA+ individuals at Sartorius through virtual events and incluse "Rainbow Lunches" - creating a safe space for sharing experiences.
Sartorius Business Women Association
The network serves to connect women across all regions and aims to support gender parity in leadership positions at Sartorius.
North America Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belong Committee
The committee promotes DEIB in the U.S. through community outreach, partnerships, events, and training. So far, 800+ employees have completed Emtram's Unconscious Bias Awareness training.
