How does Veramed support work-life balance for its employees?

Veramed prioritizes work-life balance by operating with global core hours of 10 am to 4 pm, allowing employees to structure their work weeks flexibly. The company encourages various working patterns and offers a hybrid model for experienced staff. This approach trusts employees to manage their schedules effectively.

What opportunities does Veramed provide for employee learning and career development?

Veramed offers extensive support for employee growth, including dedicated L&D and personal development budgets, study support, and further education assistance. Employees can also benefit from in-house training, professional subscriptions, and studying sabbaticals to enhance their skills and careers.

What unique benefits does Veramed offer to support its employees' personal lives and well-being?

Veramed provides several distinctive benefits such as fertility treatment leave, company-wide shutdown periods, and sabbaticals. The company also offers practical support like financial coaching, legal consults, and dog-friendly office spaces.

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Early career friendly

92%

Inclusivity

91%

Collaborative & team-orientated

90%

Veramed

Clinical Research

Biotechnology

Pharmaceutical

Biometrics Built Better

Clinical Research

Biotechnology

Pharmaceutical

The Clinical Research Organisation Bringing the Best Minds to Biometrics

Veramed is a Clinical Research Organisation (CRO) that supports biotech and pharmaceutical clients with their clinical studies across the drug development lifecycle. Veramed's guiding principle is biometrics as a force for good - striving for positive impact for its employees, clients, and patients.

Founded in 2012, Veramed has always been built on quality, integrity, humanity and a desire to do things differently. This has fostered a culture that genuinely cares for its employees, and employees that genuinely care about the work they do.

Veramed is dedicated to setting the highest standards for biometrics in clinical trials and is seeing incredible growth, but remains a close, collaborative community, championing culture and people as its greatest asset.

Hear from our team in our Veramed Stories podcast: https://veramed.com/resources/?e-filter-bb11a1e-category=podcast

What Veramed offers their employees

Age inclusive

81% of Veramed employees say it's a great place to work for over 50's.

Benefits

Veramed employees rated the benefits on offer as a 72/100.

Career progression

81% of Veramed employees feel career progression is a priority at Veramed.

Collaborative & team-orientated

90% of Veramed employees agree that they have a collaborative & team-orientated culture.

Culture

Veramed employees gave the culture a score of 88/100.

Diversity

88% of Veramed employees feel there is good representation of diverse employees.

A gender diverse workforce

Working groups to support female and non-binary employees

Working groups to support ethnically diverse employees

Working groups to support employees with disabilities

Working groups to support neurodiverse employees

Working groups to support LGBTQ+ employees

Early career friendly

92% of employees think Veramed is a good fit for people early on in their careers.

Graduate programmes

Apprenticeship programmes

Work experience programmes

Faith friendly

81% of Veramed employees say it is a faith friendly workplace.

Bank holiday swaps

Faith rooms

Meditation space

Family friendly

85% of Veramed employees say it is a family friendly workplace.

Pregnancy loss leave

Enhanced maternity leave

Carer’s leave

Enhanced paternity leave

Adoption leave

Shared parental leave

Fertility treatment leave

Pregnancy support

Flexibility

89% of Veramed employees say they can work flexibly.

Hybrid working (with some weekly office time)

Core hours 11–3

Inclusivity

91% of Veramed employees feel it is an inclusive place to work.

Female/non-binary founder/s

Gender diversity in the senior leadership team

LGBTQ+ representation in the senior leadership team

Inspiring leadership

86% of Veramed employees say Veramed has inspiring leadership.

Learning & development

Veramed employees rated the learning and development opportunities as a 87/100.

Personal development days

Personal development budgets

L&D budget

Language lessons

Study support

Studying sabbaticals

Lunch and learns

Further education support

In house training

Hackathons

Professional subscriptions

Mentoring

Coaching

Mission-first & values-led

86% of Veramed employees agree that they have a mission-first & values-led culture.

Non-salary compensation

70% of Veramed employees say they are compensated well outside their salary.

Annual bonus

Enhanced pension match/contribution

Interest free loans

401K

Referral bonus

Joining bonus

Travel loan

Employee discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Electric Car Salary Sacrifice

Pet friendly

86% of Veramed employees say it is a pet friendly workplace.

Dog friendly office

“Pawternity” leave

Reward & recognition

78% of Veramed employees feel that good work is rewarded and recognised.

Gifts

Vouchers

Awards

Mentions in company comms

Clear progression pathway

Promotions

Increased responsibility

Increased autonomy

Salary increases

Bonuses

Salary

69% of Veramed employees say they're paid well.

Social mobility committed

72% of Veramed employees say Veramed is proactive in improving social mobility.

Mentorship schemes

Community or school outreach

Sustainability

86% of employees say Veramed is a sustainable company.

Has carbon offsetting scheme

Women's health support

76% of Veramed employees say Veramed has an environment that supports women's health.

Menopause support

Enhanced maternity leave

Pregnancy loss leave

Fertility treatment leave

Pregnancy support

Work-life balance

85% of Veramed employees feel they have a good work-life balance.

Flexible working at Veramed

Work life balance and flexibility are at the core of Veramed's culture. We operate core hours of 10 am - 4 pm globally, and all staff can build their out of work commitments around our core hours. We have numerous flexible workers adopting several working patterns to best suit their personal needs and once you have gained enough experience at entry level, you can work on a hybrid pattern. Our culture encourages in-person collaboration and working where possible, to make sure people are building a well rounded skill set to prepare them for more senior roles. Ultimately we trust our staff to be the architects of their own work weeks and their own development and are always trying to do more and add more tools to enable our staff to have fulfilling and interesting careers.

Inclusion & Belonging at Veramed

Veramed is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our staff, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. Our aim is for our staff to feel respected and able to give their best. Veramed is also committed against unlawful discrimination of its clients and customers.

It is central to our culture that we provide equality, fairness, and respect for all in our employment, whether temporary, part-time, or full-time. Veramed is also recognised as a Disability Confident Level I employer.

The Equality Act 2010 and not unlawfully discriminating because of the protected characteristics of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex (gender) and sexual orientation is THE main pillar of how we conduct business.

We oppose and avoid all forms of unlawful discrimination. This includes in pay and benefits, terms and conditions of employment, dealing with grievances and discipline, dismissal, redundancy, leave for parents, requests for flexible working, and selection for employment, promotion, training or other developmental opportunities.

Veramed overtly commits to:

- Encourage equality and diversity in the workplace through our Worker B Hive (the culture club) as they are good practice and make business sense and are the right thing to do!

- Create a working environment free of bullying, harassment, victimisation, and unlawful discrimination, promoting dignity and respect for all, and where individual differences and the contributions of all staff are recognised and valued

- Take seriously complaints of bullying, harassment, victimisation and unlawful discrimination by fellow employees, customers, visitors, the public and any others in the course of their work

- Make opportunities for training, development, and progress available to all staff, who will be helped and encouraged to develop their full potential, so their talents and resources can be fully utilised to maximise the efficiency of the organisation

- Review employment practices and procedures when necessary to ensure fairness and update them and the policy to take account of changes in the law.

What Employees like about Veramed

Culture

I feel very fortunate to have Veramed as my employer. I haven't worked for another CRO, but I get the impression I am significantly better off with the culture at Veramed than at most other CROs. I feel proud to work for a BCorp and for a company which is leading the way in terms of quality in our industry.

Working Environment

There is a strong push for work life balance, even in an industry where that can be hard to find. I attribute this a lot to strong leadership and also being a European based company. I see continual efforts to support employees through work mandated "busy periods", whether through training, mentorship, work or resource reshuffling, or other.

Growth & Learning

If you have ambitions and work smart, you will have a lot of opportunities to improve and get promoted.

People & Community

I like culture, flexibility, work life balance, people in veramed.

Culture

It is overall a good working space, I have joined Veramed India recently and has a good working culture around

Growth & Learning

I feel trusted and valued and that my boss goes out of her way to find opportunities for me

Growth & Learning

Since joining Veramed, I have had opportunities to work on complex studies, enhance my technical programming skills, contribute to knowledge-sharing sessions, mentor colleagues, and participate in training activities. The support from my managers, leads, and team members has helped me continuously develop and deliver high-quality work. Very good company for when we talk about Flexibility.

Culture

Veramed is focused and aids in career opportunities tailored to each persons interest, while ensuring that there is metrics to gauge the progress while upskilling. Love this place!