Omar
Customer Insight
Practice Director
5 years at Sigma-Aldrich
Previous position at
Sigma-Aldrich:
Director,
Global Strategic Accounts
I recently completed my MBA and I wanted to take on a bigger challenge. Sigma-Aldrich took me seriously and allowed me the opportunity to participate in a strategic planning project in 2008 and then relocated me to the headquarters in Saint Louis to start the New Ventures Group. My goal was to broaden my set of experiences. After many lengthy and serious conversations with our business unit leaders, Sigma-Aldrich offered me the opportunity to test myself in a new environment. As long as you are willing to work hard and communicate openly, Sigma-Aldrich will give you the chance to make the most of your career.
If you are ready to work hard, come here. If you are ready to learn new things, come here. If you are ready to make and deliver on commitments, come here. Sigma-Aldrich is a very serious place to work that has challenged me with direct feedback and consistently raised the bar for performance.
Sigma-Aldrich Family.
We are committed to fostering a workplace
that builds employee capability and
engagement. We seek to be world-class
in everything we do.
Since 2004, Sigma-Aldrich has donated over $15 million in products, time and monetary gifts to support our communities through the Sigma-Aldrich Foundation and Team Sigma-Aldrich.
Diversity
At Sigma-Aldrich we respect, encourage and value the diversity that exists in our workplace and our surrounding communities. It isn’t just ethnicity or gender or age, but also how each of us contributes to the corporate culture in our own way. We are committed to fostering a workplace that builds employee capability and engagement.
Work Life
With such a wide range of careers, facilities and locations, describing what the working life is like for everyone would be a challenge – it can be very different, depending on the job. But one thing is for certain, with so many different career options, there is likely something to suit everyone.
Community Involvement
1,750 employees around the world contributed over $60,000 and volunteered 4,400 hours in various charitable events including Komen Race for the Cure, Bike MS, Briggs & Al’s Run & Walk for Children’s Hospital, AFM Telethon and many more. Learn more about Team Sigma-Aldrich by visiting sigma-aldrich.com/globalcitizenship
Communication
Communication exists in many forms to ensure that our employees stay connected to the organization and other employees, regardless of where they are located:
- Our monthly, global newsletter reaches our 8,000 employees. It has stories of best practices, inspiration and community involvement as well as updates on business initiatives and progress.
- eNet, our worldwide intranet tool, provides employees with interactive and timely videos from our leaders, company news, Q&A forums, employee directory, department listings, dashboards and training.
- Follow Sigma-Aldrich:
Sigma-Aldrich partnered with Ingenuity, a leading provider of life science information solutions, to create Your Favorite Gene powered by Ingenuity, a web-based biological search portal for exploring dynamic gene-based content (sigmaaldrich.com/yfg). Based on Ingenuity’s extensive library of research findings, Your Favorite Gene powered by Ingenuity contains interactive pathways and gene interaction maps for over 90,000 genes, mapping the activity to relevant products such as antibodies, RNA interference (shRNA and siRNA), small molecules, proteins, and peptides.
One Company Foundation Every day, we build upon our strengths – quality, service, selection, innovation and trust – to provide the foundation of our value creation model and to address each unique customer need.
Continuous Improvement Embracing a tradition of process improvement, we are committed to continually growing market leadership by maximizing our capabilities and resources through the talents of our global workforce.
Go-to-Market Advantage Our customer-centered approach leverages our global presence and unrivalled scientific knowledge through our go-to-market channels including sales force, eBusiness and emerging markets – driving stronger connections to new and existing customers around the world.
Focused Vision Our strategic focus areas of Analytical, Biology and Chemistry-Materials Science (ABCM), enhanced by unique manufacturing capabilities, support our vision to be the trusted global partner of choice for our customers.
Passionate Employees All of our goals and successes are made possible through the people of Sigma-Aldrich – the best and the brightest around the world coming together for a common mission to enable science to improve the quality of life.
Sigma-Aldrich Recognitions
Sigma-Aldrich was voted one of the “Best Places to Work-Industry” by Scientist Magazine in 2009 and in 2010.
Impact Factor ranks Aldrichimica Acta first in the field of organic chemistry journals
Abbott’s 2008 Supplier Excellence Award for exceptional contributions to Abbott in 2008
OSI Pharmaceuticals 2008 Supplier Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement
SelectScience.net’s 2009 Scientist’s Choice Award for Best New Separation Product in 2008 (Hybrid SPE-Precipitation technology)
At the core of Sigma-Aldrich is a common set of principles that our employees draw upon to unleash their talents, delight our customers and thrill our shareholders. These principles are the heart of who we are at Sigma-Aldrich.
Values Creating a positive working environment is the responsibility of every employee in our company. Treating others with respect and dignity is not only a saying, but also an expectation at Sigma-Aldrich.
Safety and Quality We take safety and quality very seriously; our world-renowned reputation depends upon it. Every employee in the company is provided with ongoing, job-specific training to maintain our high standards.
Process Improvement Continuous improvement is part of our DNA. Every employee is challenged to find ways to improve quality, increase efficiency and save time and resources. From a small idea to a major system redesign, we are always striving to find a better way.
Role Model We work hard. We exceed expectations. Sigma-Aldrich employees serve as role models for for each other, and the industry as well.
Common Knowledge Sigma-Aldrich not only shares best practices and information internally, but we share our knowledge with scientists and customers around the globe.
Common Systems To support sharing knowledge, we take every opportunity to share systems that will leverage our knowledge and size. Using SAP as our integrated enterprise resource system allows different departments and different sites to work together effectively.
Unconditional Teamwork Working alone is limiting. Without the expanded insight and many ideas which teamwork provides, Sigma-Aldrich couldn’t be a leader and bring new ideas and products to market.
Vision We are customer-centric. From our structure, to our product and service offerings, everything we do is centered on our customers. Scientists have relied on Sigma-Aldrich as a trusted research and development partner for many years.
Strategic Planning It’s not an accident that Sigma-Aldrich is one of the most profitable life science companies in the world. There is a strategy behind our approach, and employee objectives are aligned to ensure we are all working toward a common goal.
One Company Although we are 8,000 employees in 40 countries around the world, we are one company striving toward one goal – accelerating customers’ success through innovation and leadership in life science, high technology and service.
