Chr. Hansen is a global modern Danish company with a strong cultural heritage accumulated from our almost 150 years in business. Our founder was a true entrepreneur with an international mindset, and that mentality is still very present. Despite double-digit growth rates in recent years, we are still a non-hierarchical and agile organization that strives to promote a collaborative culture imbued with respect and helpfulness towards customers, colleagues and all other stakeholders.
Our best ambassadors
Our employees are the root to our success and at the same time our best ambassadors. As an organization we wish to foster an inspiring and challenging work environment with a good work-life balance. We want Chr. Hansen to be a place where people are proud to work.
A safe work environment
In Chr. Hansen we are committed to creating a safe physical and psychological work environment. Using globally implemented safety concepts and systems, we focus on creating a safety mindset with all employees making our employees feel safe while working.
Take 5!
Our global safety concept, Take 5, reminds our employees to take a moment to assess the situation and the immediate work environment before beginning the work. In its simple form, this is about activating the mind before the hands to reduce the risk of preventable incidents.
The concept has been rolled out across all Chr. Hansen sites and has successfully reduced work accidents.
To enable our employees to stay connected and be mindful of their health and well-being we’ve created the Hansen Health concept.
Hansen Health consists of several initiatives like inspirational talks, short exercise videos by our employees and a health and activities app with energy-boosting activities, team competitions and different challenges to help bring us together – even though we are working apart.
Employee satisfaction
At Chr. Hansen, we believe that our employees’ well-being is a critical part of ensuring that we remain a great place to work.
We are proud to say that we have engaged employees! Based on data from our recent engagement survey, we got 8.4 on a 10-point scale, which places us in the top 10% of all the companies using the same survey provider (a database with more than 440,000 survey responses).
Our recipe for engagement is to keep focusing on it and making sure that all people leaders have engagement at the top of their agendas. To do that, we measure engagement three times a year and we encourage leaders and teams to discuss engagement as part of their regular dialogues. Every survey round, leaders at all levels review their results and decide with the team on specific topics that they want to take action on to keep improving Chr. Hansen as a workplace.
Having highly engaged employees is key for current and future business success and it is more fun to keep connectivity, both physically at the workplace and virtually for people working from home.
Attractive compensation policy and benefit system
It is important to us to attract, engage and retain employees with the experience and knowledge needed to reach our strategic goals, while supporting our company culture. Our salaries, compensation policy and benefit systems reflect that.
We provide an attractive salary, financial and non-financial reward elements, and a pension ensuring that you are well protected in your retirement phase of life. Our benefits packages vary by country based on local practice, but they all reflect the skills and performance of our employees, as well as their contribution to our company.
The world’s best colleagues
We are proud to offer a work environment with highly engaged colleagues who are among the world’s best within their expertise. In addition, our people managers are highly appraised in our annual employee satisfaction survey.
Healthy people are happy people
In Chr. Hansen we are passionate about improving food and health. This goes for our employees as well. We believe that healthy employees are happy employees. That is why we offer our employees the best opportunities to have a healthy work life.
Depending on location, we offer e.g. a healthy lunch buffet, private medical insurance, access to well-equipped fitness centers, as well as active sports to name a few.
Our employees also enjoy getting to know each other at cultural events, fun team building activities and family days.
