Graduates

If you have a degree, you could take on a specific role in anything from Engineering & Maintenance to Finance or from Information Services to Inhouse Consulting.

Whichever department you join, you’ll immediately start making a professional contribution, guided and coached by experience colleagues.

Our advanced training seminars will also build your understanding of your area and help you take on increasing responsibility for specific tasks and projects.

Join us as a postdoc scientist, and you’ll have the chance to combine pure research with business-oriented thinking.

Our in-depth scientific topics offer you the chance to deepen your professional skills while working on special innovative projects and gaining further experience and qualifications. As a result, our two-year placements – and, in preclinical research, three-year placements – are an ideal transition from academic life to a position in industry.

Our two-year trainee program in Inhouse Consulting offers a more intense, subject-specific preparation for a position in our company.

The Trainee program includes a day to day role in the business and project work as well as an assignment abroad for three to six months.

Working with experienced colleagues, you’ll focus on strategy, growth and optimization consultancy projects and gain extensive project management skills.

You’ll also tackle an assignment in both the Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals and business sectors. These will give you the chance to learn how our business operates day-to-day in, for instance, marketing, sales or production. And, on top of that, there’ll be an assignment abroad at one of our international subsidiaries.

Each of these stages will last between three and six months. Complete them successfully and we could well offer you a full-time role.


What we look for

Our two-year trainee program in Accounting & Controlling offers a more intense, subject-specific preparation for a position in our company.

The Trainee program includes a day to day role in the business and project work as well as an assignment abroad for twelve months.

You’ll spend twelve months in our Darmstadt headquarters and twelve months in Boston, Geneva, Lyon, Jakarta or Mexico city. Your working assignments will include time in Merck's Shared Service center, Enterprise Controlling, Divisional Controlling, Corporate Controlling, Internal Audit, Treasury, Group Reporting plus projects. And throughout you’ll benefit from close mentoring and continuous feedback and ongoing development. While abroad you’ll report directly to the Chief Financial Officer.

The start dates for this permanent contract are:

What we look for

We’re particularly looking for people who’ve had vocational training as an:

As well as gaining practical experience and benefiting from in-depth training, you could enhance your prospects still more by taking further qualifications. And you’ll certainly have plenty of professional opportunities to make the most of.