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Sustainability
“Health for all, hunger for none” – with our strategic focus on sustainability, we are making a key contribution to ensuring our vision becomes reality.
We believe that economic growth and sustainability should go hand in hand. Sustainability is therefore a core element of our corporate strategy and enjoys the same status among our corporate goals as our financial indicators.
The UN Sustainable Development Goals where we have greatest impact on
Our Sustainability Targets
We aim to…
Across the globe, there are some 550 million smallholders who provide up to 80% of their countries' food supplies. Many of them, however, can barely earn their own living. We want to help by improving access to knowledge, products and services.
At least half the world's population currently has no access to basic health services, including self-medication products. We want to change this by ensuring the availability of appropriate products and education.
According to the United Nations, gender equality will be a decisive factor for the world's future economic and social development. We want to strengthen the role of women and intensify our efforts in modern family planning.
We therefore will provide equitable pricing and patient affordability programs. Our ambition is to reach 100 million people by 2030.
Moreover, we will continue our collaboration with the WHO to fight tropical diseases like African Sleeping Sickness and Chagas Disease, typically hitting the lowest levels of the income pyramid the worst.
Decrease ecological footprint
We aim to...
...make our own production sites climate-neutral and reduce emissions along the value chain by 2030.
…reduce the greenhouse gas footprint of crop production where our products are used by 30 percent by 2030.
…reduce the environmental impact of crop protection products by 30 percent by 2030.
…establish a sustainable production and transition to circular options that reduce, recycle, reuse, and replace in our Consumer Health business.
There are many ways to contribute to sustainability at Bayer – areas of engagement
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Our DE&I aspiration: We live a culture where everyone is valued and enabled to be the best version of themselves – For Better.
At Bayer, we are continuously in pursuit of better: better outcomes for patients, better sustainable practices for farmers, and better products for consumers. To be successful, we must live a culture that isn’t just accepting of all its people, but intentionally embraces and celebrates the diverse and unique experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, and knowledge of our team to create impact in the communities we serve and the world.
What does Diversity, Equity & Inclusion mean at Bayer?
Collection of similarities and differences that we each have based on innate individual characteristics, lived experiences, and learned customs, traditions, and other cultural influences.
Intentional and continuous efforts to create an accessible environment where people feel they belong and are enabled to be the best version of themselves, because their uniqueness is valued, talent recognized, and voices heard.
Eliminating barriers so that people are treated based on their unique needs, circumstances and with consideration of historical and systemic inequities. It ensures that everyone has access to the same opportunities and requires consistent enhancement and re-evaluation of policies, practices, attitudes, and cultural messages to create and reinforce fair outcomes.
Business Resource Groups (BRGs)
BLEND, Bayer’s Business Resource Group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) individuals and their allies, is one of the largest and oldest BRGs at Bayer. Its members stand up for respect and equal rights within and outside the company, as here at the Christopher Street Day in Cologne.
BRGs are voluntary, company sponsored groups of employees who work together to promote cultural diversity, awareness and DE&I education. You can participate in on the job leadership development experiences at the site, national and global level by joining a BRG. The following company sponsored BRGs have a global footprint with chapters in different continents. Additional BRGs may be available in your country:
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Innovation
Our ambition is to connect with the brightest minds across and beyond Bayer to create leading solutions in health and nutrition.
We recognize the power of innovation in everything we do, which is why we take a holistic approach rooted in research and development, open innovation, entrepreneurship and social innovation. In this increasingly digitized world of radical change and uncertainty, innovation invites us to connect, collaborate and contribute towards something meaningful and bigger than ourselves.
What tools and methodologies can help you drive innovation?
Please find some examples of opportunities to upskill on innovation, to collaborate on innovation programs and to connect to thousands of experts and enthusiasts across Bayer.
Learn how Bayer’s crowdsourcing platform may provide answers to your challenges and advance your digital ideas.
Just imagine you are working on your day2day business and suddenly you get stuck. What can you do? Enter WeSolve - our internal crowd-sourcing platform enabling employees to tap into the collective intelligence across Bayer to help solve challenges.
We Experiment (Hype) is our Digital Innovation Idea platform. If you have a digital idea, we encourage you to share it. Everyone can post ideas, support colleagues in advancing their ideas and join research teams.
Explore, learn and innovate!
Do you want to improve your innovation knowledge and skills? No matter who you are or what your function is: at Bayer everyone is encouraged to innovate in what they do. We provide information and powerful methods like Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT) or Design Thinking to solve problems with creativity and to create value with your ideas and your innovation mindset.
Bringing you closer to thousands of innovation enthusiasts across the Bayer world.
Are you curious to connect to an innovation coach or expert? Interested to learn which innovation communities exist across Bayer? Keen to discover who is behind Corporate Innovation? Bayer boasts hundreds of innovation coaches and experts who are trained and ready to guide your innovation journey. In addition, Bayer has scores of communities with specific focal areas that come under the umbrella of innovation.
Looking for an inspirational setting?
The right innovation setting can work wonders to fuel creativity and teamwork. Bayer provides local innovation rooms for enhanced co-creation activities and inspirational environments for your innovation workshops!
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Global Organization & History
Bayer is a Life Science company with a more than 150-year history and core competencies in the areas of health care and agriculture. With our innovative products, we are contributing to finding solutions to some of the major challenges of our time.
The Bayer Group is managed as a life science company with three divisions – Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Health and Crop Science, which are also our reporting segments. The Enabling Functions support the operational business.
Organization of Bayer
Business Operations Are the Responsibility of the Divisions
The Pharmaceuticals division focuses on prescription products, especially for cardiology and women’s healthcare, and on specialty therapeutics in the areas of oncology, hematology and ophthalmology. The division also comprises the radiology business, which markets diagnostic imaging equipment together with the necessary contrast agents.
The Consumer Health division markets mainly nonprescription (OTC = over-the-counter) products in the dermatology, nutritional supplement, analgesic, digestive health, cold, allergy, sinus and flu categories..
The Crop Science division is a world-leading agriculture enterprise with businesses in seeds, crop protection and nonagricultural pest control. The Crop Protection / Seeds operating unit markets a broad portfolio of high-value seeds and innovative pest management solutions, while at the same time providing extensive customer service for sustainable agriculture.
The Enabling Functions operate as Group-wide competence centers in which business support services are bundled.
Bayer History - How it all began
Bayer was founded over 150 years ago: On August 1, 1863 a merchant named Friedrich Bayer and a master dyer named Johann Friedrich Weskott set up a small dyestuffs factory in Barmen, now a district of the city of Wuppertal, Germany. And so Bayer's long history of innovation and pioneering begins.
About Bayer
Global Organization & History
Bayer is a Life Science company with a more than 150-year history and core competencies in the areas of health care and agriculture. With our innovative products, we are contributing to finding solutions to some of the major challenges of our time.
The Bayer Group is managed as a life science company with three divisions – Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Health and Crop Science – and the Animal Health business unit, which are also our reporting segments. The Enabling Functions support the operational business.
Organization of Bayer
Business Operations Are the Responsibility of the Divisions
The Pharmaceuticals division focuses on prescription products, especially for cardiology and women’s healthcare, and on specialty therapeutics in the areas of oncology, hematology and ophthalmology. The division also comprises the radiology business, which markets diagnostic imaging equipment together with the necessary contrast agents.
The Consumer Health division markets mainly nonprescription (OTC = over-the-counter) products in the dermatology, nutritional supplement, analgesic, digestive health, cold, allergy, sinus and flu categories.
The Crop Science division is a world-leading agriculture enterprise with businesses in seeds, crop protection and nonagricultural pest control. The Crop Protection / Seeds operating unit markets a broad portfolio of high-value seeds and innovative pest management solutions, while at the same time providing extensive customer service for sustainable agriculture. The Environmental Science operating unit provides products and services for professional nonagricultural applications, such as vector and pest control and forestry.
Enabling Functions are responsible for providing the functional strategy, framework and guidelines as well as functional advice.
Bayer History
Bayer was founded over 150 years ago: On August 1, 1863 a merchant named Friedrich Bayer and a master dyer named Johann Friedrich Weskott set up a small dyestuffs factory in Barmen, now a district of the city of Wuppertal, Germany. And so Bayer's long history of innovation and pioneering begins.
How it all began
Visit Bayer.com to learn more about the fascinating progression of one of the world's largest companies.
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Our Work Culture
Guaranteeing fairness and respect at work is crucial to creating the best version of Bayer where we respect differences, embrace inclusion, and show up as our best selves. This is one of our foundational mindsets and DSO behaviors. It is the responsibility of everyone to maintain a safe and inclusive workplace that allows us all to feel comfortable collaborating and co-creating solutions for customer needs. By ensuring everyone is empowered to show up as their true selves, we will drive the greatest value for our customers and move closer to our mission: Health for all, Hunger for none.
Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO)
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?
DSO is our operating model. It’s a way to unleash our collective and unique strengths to create better outcomes and more value for our farmers, patients, consumers, investors, employees and other stakeholders. DSO reminds us why we all said yes to joining #TeamBayer.
Code of Conduct
The Code of Conduct outlines Bayer’s principles of business conduct. It defines how we as Bayer employees work together with our colleagues and external partners. While it does not cover every situation we may encounter, it serves as our compass to ensure we act with integrity and helps us to make informed decisions, focus on the essentials and reinforce our company’s identity.
Everyone will make bigger, more important decisions about how to serve our mission. That makes a shared sense of integrity and a strong ethical code absolutely essential! I want to encourage everyone in Team Bayer to take ownership of their work and rely on the guidance of experts in Team Bayer to ensure we’re acting with integrity and in accordance with all relevant laws and regulations, at all times. Our mission is a bold one, and we need to serve it with the highest standards!
How we interact with customers patients and consumer
Our commitment: We commit to providing the best customer experience with each of our products and services. Quality is one of our core values. We all are responsible for quality in everything we do.
Our commitment: We ensure that our products and services meet the needs and expectations of customers and the authorities in terms of safety, quality and efficacy to safeguard our “license to operate”.
Our commitment: We contribute to the well-being and safety of patients and consumers. We ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and facilitate the efficient commercialization and accessibility of our products. It is mandatory to complete the respective trainings in a timely manner.
Our commitment: We protect our patients’ and customers’ access to genuine products to make our vision “Health for all, hunger for none” a reality.
How we work together
Our commitment: We are committed to creating a workplace where discrimination, harassment, and retaliation are not tolerated. Employees should feel free to raise concerns in good faith, without fear of retaliation. At Bayer, we foster a culture of appreciation and empowerment, allowing everyone to thrive and be their best selves. We respect the right and freedom of employees to join organizations of their choosing according to applicable laws and regulations.
Our commitment: We act in Bayer’s best interest.
Our commitment: The way we communicate greatly influences the perception of Bayer. Open and transparent dialogue with our diverse internal and external stakeholders is key to creating and maintaining understanding, acceptance, and trust in our company and its endeavors.
Our commitment: Bayer is committed to the protection of its employees, sites, products, intellectual property and reputation against security threats, crime, and crisis events.
How we work with stakeholders
Sustainability
Our commitment: A growing world population and the increasing burden on ecosystems are among the biggest challenges humanity faces. As global leaders in healthcare and nutrition, we can contribute solutions at the intersection of climate, health and food. Through our products and sustainability initiatives, we help to improve farming and increase access to nutrition and healthcare. We help protect the environment by reducing our own ecological footprint and that of agriculture. We commit to acting responsibly along the entire value chain and fulfilling all non-financial reporting obligations.
Human Rights
Our commitment: Respecting human rights is at the core of how we do business at Bayer. We show up as a founding member of the UN Global Compact, supporters of the International Bill of Human Rights, the International Labor Organization’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs).
Health & Safety
Our commitment: We respect and care for the safety, health, and well-being of people, whether they are employees, contractors, visitors, or neighbors around the world.
Risk Management and Compliance Management System
Our commitment: Seek opportunities and take corresponding risks into account when making our business decisions. This requires talking about risks openly and addressing them proactively.
Competition Law
Our commitment: We commit to fair and free competition in compliance with applicable competition (or ‘antitrust’) laws.
Anti-corruption, gifts/ entertainment, and anti-money laundering
Our commitment: We do not tolerate corruption and we refuse any business opportunity that involves bribery or wrongfully influencing third parties. We only give gifts or offer entertainment within the boundaries of ethics and laws. We pay particular attention to local laws when it comes to gifts or entertainment provided to healthcare professionals or governmental officials as it may be unlawful to do so completely. Even where allowed, giving a benefit may require public reporting or disclosure.
We abide by all applicable laws to prevent money laundering.
Export Control, Economic Sanctions, International Trade and Customs Compliance
Our commitment: We are committed to complying with all applicable international trade laws and regulations (export controls, economic sanctions and customs). We support national and multilateral initiatives that seek to prevent the misuse of goods or technologies such as nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons, or the spread of terrorism or war.
Insider Trading
Our commitment: Bayer promotes open and fair capital markets by protecting non-public information from unintended disclosure and misuse. We comply with all applicable insider trading laws.
Responsible use of Artificial Intelligence
Our commitment: We act responsibly in the development, testing and implementation of products and services enabled by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Information and Cyber Security
Our commitment: Cyber and information security is everyone’s responsibility. All employees are expected to protect our assets, information and digital products and adhere to local/ international legislation, industry regulations, and/ or agreements.
Intellectual Property
Our commitment: Intellectual property rights are valuable assets. Bayer safeguards the value of its research and development efforts as well as the goodwill and reputation of the company and its brands. Bayer respects the valid rights and claims of any third party.
Data Privacy
Our commitment: We always respect an individual’s right to privacy, which is a fundamental human right, guaranteed and protected by privacy laws.
Information Retention and Deletion
Our commitment: We ensure systematic and consistent management of all records and information from their creation or receipt to their final disposition, regardless of media type.
Interaction with patients and patient organizations
Our commitment: We support patients and their caretakers worldwide within the frame of ethics and local laws by helping them manage their treatment and improve disease outcomes through patient organizations (POs).
Interaction with Healthcare Professionals and Healthcare Organizations
Our commitment: We comply with laws, regulations and industry codes that regulate interactions with healthcare professionals (HCP) and healthcare organizations (HCO).
Our goal is to ensure that HCPs and HCOs have access to the information they need to prescribe our products based on a patient’s needs and best interest.
Interaction with Suppliers and Making Proper Buying Decisions
Our commitment: We are committed to achieving excellence by leveraging our resources and fostering sustainable partnerships rooted in compliance, sustainability, fairness, and integrity in every buying decision.
Accounting and Financial Reporting
Our commitment: We assure financial reporting complies with national and international accounting standards, thus retaining trust and integrity for Bayer and avoiding any potential sanctions or liability and reputation risks for the Bayer Group and the Board of Management of Bayer AG.
Taxes
Our commitment: We are committed to ensuring that Bayer’s tax affairs are responsibly managed, and we are recognized by our stakeholders as a responsible and reliable taxpayer.
Treasury
Our commitment: We are committed to secure Bayer’s liquidity and increase the company’s value through optimized capital structures and financial risk management.