Our Challenge is Life

Building on People

Welcome!
We believe in people. In bold ways, Aventis is empowering people to do great things. Networking across functional and geographic boundaries. Focusing on breakthroughs. Pairing our scientists expertise with advanced technologies. Making decisions based on data. Rewarding performance. Creating a culture of innovation and growth.
A New Kind of Pharma Company
People committed to converting scientific knowledge into valuable medications fighting serious diseases find a rewarding, innovative work environment in Aventis.

Aventis ranks among the giants of the global pharmaceutical industry but competes with the energetic spirit of a young champion. We are passionate about our products and the innovative business processes that connect us with our markets worldwide. Still in our early years, Aventis is redefining the organization of a pharma company particularly in Drug Innovation and Approval, our research and development group. We are strategically committing our resources to discover and bring to market important new drugs products that make a difference for patients and their health care.

With blockbuster drugs already leading the markets in allergy, thrombosis and oncology and promising newer products in diabetes, respiratory infections and cardiovascular medicine we already have an impact in conquering and preventing disease. Beyond our critical mass of 17.7 billion euros in annual sales and 3 billion euros in R&D investment, Aventis is strong in people. 67,500 colleagues around the world are working together, with high ethical standards and a sense of urgency, to make a difference. Aventis Our Challenge is Life

HOW WE ACT

WHERE WE ARE GOING

HOW WE WILL GET THERE

People With Values

As a global workplace, Aventis is a farflung team of people aspiring to put into practice a set of core principles. We call them the Aventis Values, and they describe who we are as we interact with our colleagues and others in our business. Our Values are: Respect for people, Integrity, Sense of urgency, Networking, Creativity, Empowerment and Courage.

The Aventis Vision

Our vision is to be recognized as a pharmaceutical industry leader valued by patients and healthcare providers, respected by the scientific community, sought after as an employer and admired by our competitors.

The Aventis Strategy

The core strategy that will enable us to achieve our vision for Aventis is product leadership inventing, developing, supplying and successfully commercializing products that make a real difference for patients and healthcare providers.To be successful, we need to: introduce a steady stream of innovative and value-added pharmaceuticals and vaccines, and maximize the value of existing and new global brands through aggressive commercial investments and expansion of our products usefulness in health care.

Aventis: Organized for Success through Innovation

The people of Aventis focus on innovation creating new and better paths to superior results. Networking and collaborating, colleagues are encouraged to work across traditional lines that divide organizations. We aspire to work together as one company to achieve the greater good. Members of the Aventis team work in four broad categories: Commercial Operations | Each time we launch a brand and press on to maximize its commercial value, Aventis blazes a trail in the worlds key markets. We pair outstanding sales forces with advanced tools for educating physicians, providers and patients. We focus on strategic brands and key countries to maximize sales of drugs with blockbuster potential. MAX philosophy ensures marketing based on in-depth understanding of diseases and their treatment in medical practice, plus commitment of resources for success. Already a market leader in France and Germany, Aventis is rapidly growing in the United States. Industrial Operations | Much more than a collection of manufacturing sites, our global industrial team focuses on customer service and seamless supply chain management for strategic products from early development throughout the product life cycle. Integrated capabilities provide global sourcing from active pharmaceutical ingredient through drug product, packaging and distribution. We manufacture 450 brands and 29,000 presentations in 68 sites. Unique product-focused organization contributes to success of strategic brands by networking IO sites and giving top priority to product needs. Corporate Functions | Aventis corporate staffs support our key businesses facilitating and tracking success, networking people and knowledge via technology, providing an attractive human resource environment and interfacing with the industry and markets. Multidisciplinary teams throughout the Aventis culture make Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources and Business Development core contributors. Drug Innovation and Approval | What used to be R&D is a new kind of organization at Aventis. We are dedicated to understanding diseases, generating and optimizing leads, and developing the most innovative drugs to gain global approval for treatment of patients.

Decision-makers at Aventis give priority to data: welldesigned scientific studies, best practices on business processes, and in-depth market research to product success.

Welcome to the innovation driver of Aventis Drug Innovation & Approval

New Paradigm for Scientific Creativity
Networking across cultural and organizational lines, we can solve the toughest problems. Aventis is sparking creativity through a scientific value net that encourages collaboration.

Departing from traditional approaches to Research & Development, Aventis has created a new paradigm for organizing scientific work. We call it Drug Innovation and Approval, or DI&A. This global team of 5,600 colleagues performs what were once isolated, sequential R&D tasks in parallel. An innovative value network structure links highly focused project teams with top-notch technology groups and best-in-class external partners. Collaboration across departments and countries is the rule in a DI&A organization that seeks seamless connectivity as a daily goal. The non-traditional DI&A structure fosters innovation, enhances productivity and reduces cycle time. The Aventis value net provides competitive advantages: Connecting Aventis associates and external partners with knowledge of various aspects of a problem in a virtual network Promoting simultaneous hypothesis generation, testing & evaluation Encouraging rapid cycles and narrowing choices based on the information gathered. DI&A profits from Aventis global status as a preferred partner. We are engaged in more than 100 collaborations with leading universities and biotechnology companies worldwide. Aventis DI&A itself represents a networked matrix of global functions and strategic sites.

Global functions provide expertise and technologies to the sites, which focus on targeted diseases and manage their portfolios of projects from discovery through proof-of-concept in man.
STRATEGIC SITES

Our strategic research sites do business in an entrepreneurial, biotech-like environment, focusing on finding new therapeutic solutions in their disease areas: Bridgewater, New Jersey Immunology platform Central nervous system Respiratory diseases Rheumatoid arthritis Frankfurt, Germany Cardiovascular diseases Metabolic diseases Osteoarthritis Paris, France Oncology Infectious diseases Alzheimers and Parkinsons diseases The strategic sites manage drug candidates in their disease states from discovery to phase IIa testing. By focusing on specific therapeutic areas, scientists in these groups are able to specialize but also tie into a global network of expertise and technologies.

Enriching the Lives of Our People

A philosophy called Total Rewards underlies an aggressive program for rewarding and recognizing talented people for their contributions to Aventis. More than the sum of its individual components, Total Rewards offers Aventis people a career-long advantage. Total Rewards encompasses a whole spectrum of programs including performance-driven pay, comprehensive benefit plans, professional development opportunities, and a work environment conducive to superior performance and personal fulfillment. Aventis asks our people to give their very best and we deliver rewards, in return, to enrich the lives of Aventis people.
PRINCIPLES OF TOTAL REWARDS

Aventis offers a rewards program designed to attract, retain and motivate the people who are critical for reaching the goals of our performance-driven company. Our rewards program reinforces the partnership between the company and associates by clearly connecting individual performance with rewards linked to business results. Taken together, the plans that make up Total Rewards are competitive with comparable pharmaceutical and related companies in the locations where we operate. Aventis provides a competitive benefits package designed to support the current and future needs of a diverse population.

Components of Total Compensation

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS & PERQUISITES SHORT-TERM INCENTIVES

Retirement and welfare benefits offer protection after retirement or in sickness, accident, death or disability in line with best practices in each country. This also holds for company cars, time off and other perquisites.
LONG-TERM INCENTIVES A top-tier package of salary, benefits and incentives helps make a day-to-day job into a long-term career for Aventis associates.

Our Annual Incentive Plan provides cash awards that are among the highest in the pharmaceutical industry. Our intention is to use short-term incentives to drive and reward better-than-industry performance.
BASE SALARY

Stock options are offered to Aventis management around the world. A global discretionary stock option pool is available for other high-performing individuals.

Salary ranges are locally developed to be competitive in each country. The application of ranges to what each indivual is paid reflects the persons performance, skill, competency level and experience.

Building a Great Company One Person at a Time

Having clear, aligned business goals is great, but the success of Aventis depends on attracting and keeping the right people to implement our strategy. We recognize how crucial the human element is. Our Talent Management process enables Aventis to identify and match people with business requirements guiding how we manage and invest in people so we have leaders in place to achieve our goals. Talent Management is a powerful competitive advantage, and the process also makes Aventis a place of exceptional opportunity for outstanding people. Based on our business challenges we determine criteria to identify and develop our talent. Talent Management helps Aventis have the right leaders in place to meet business needs.

Respect for people infuses our daily interactions and our Total Rewards approach to recognition and compensation.

What are the Success Factors for an Aventis Leader?

Leadership identification, development and succession planning follow a systematic approach based on a tool we call the Aventis Leadership Profile. Five Leadership Success Factors plus underlying key indicators that flesh out the profile offer clear guidance for associates who aspire to assume greater responsibility as future Aventis leaders: L REWARDS Deliver Strategic Business Results Demonstrate Personal Leadership Build the Global Organization Develop Human Capital Transform and Reinvent the Business At Aventis, we are building a great company with great people and rewarding each one for performance. To feel this spirit, join us!

Contact us!
You will find interesting information and on-line application opportunities in our Recruitment Center on www.aventis.com, our worldwide portal into the Aventis world. Just click on Careers to enter our Recruitment Center offering you: On-line application opportunities for your career Post-Doc opportunities and other scientific programs and cooperations A worldwide network guiding you directly to all local Aventis HR Internet sites with specific information and contacts for a career start in our international teams.

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