The biopharmaceutical company Takeda was recognized as a “Global Top Employer” for the eighth time in a row in 2025 and received certification in 24 countries, including Austria again.
The repeated award underlines the excellent working conditions that the company creates for its approximately 4,500 employees in Austria and its workforce worldwide. The award confirms Takeda’s commitment to providing an inspiring and meaningful work environment that promotes individual and professional development.
The Top Employers Institute recognizes organizations based on participation and results of their HR Best Practices survey. The survey carried out covers a wide range of topics, such as the working environment, talent acquisition, learning, diversity and inclusion or well-being. Companies are evaluated based on existing policies and practices.
A job with meaning for better health
The employees at Takeda pursue the meaningful work of providing patients with rare and complex diseases with vital medications. The common goal is to improve people’s lives. Alexandra Hilgers, board member and HR Senior Director at Takeda in Austria, emphasizes: “The colleagues at Takeda in Austria make their valuable contribution to enabling patients to have better health, which motivates our employees every day. A job at Takeda is a job with meaning. The repeated international and national award as ‘Top Employer’ shows the continuity and sustainability of our efforts to create an outstanding employee experience.”
Attractive employer with many benefits
In addition to the meaningful work, the numerous benefits make Takeda an attractive employer. The employees value the company’s health promotion with a wide range of offers, a family-friendly working environment with a company kindergarten and a comprehensive range of further training and development. In addition to in-house job rotations and numerous opportunities for lifelong learning, employees at Takeda can also get involved in network groups for focus topics in the areas of diversity, equity and inclusion, and sustainability.
Shaping the future together
Since all steps for the production of medicines take place in Austria, the areas of activity are very diverse. On the way to becoming the ‘Factory of the Future’, digitalization and automation processes are also creating new areas of responsibility for talented people with IT expertise. Digital sustainability is also a top priority at Takeda: ‘Green Jobs’ work on the constant modernization of technologies and explore the question of how production processes can be made more sustainable and environmentally friendly.
All open positions are advertised here: https://jobs.takeda.com/austria
About Takeda
Takeda is a world-leading, values-driven, research-based biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan. Takeda’s mission is to develop and produce life-enhancing and life-sustaining medicines for the treatment of rare and complex diseases. At Takeda, every step of the process for innovative medicines takes place in Austria. Around 4,500 employees help ensure that medicines from Austria reach over 100 countries worldwide and that patients in Austria have access to Takeda’s innovative medicines. Takeda was also recognized as a certified Top Employer for its outstanding employee experience and commitment to inclusion and is a pioneer in the area of sustainable and responsible pharmaceutical production. https://www.takeda.at.
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