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Benefits of Kuraray

Employee satisfaction is important to us - because motivated employees who feel valued and happy are our most important asset. As well as attractive remuneration to reward motivation and good performance, we therefore offer a range of additional benefits:

Health

Fostering employees health is very important to Kuraray. We want to keep our employees healthy. Therefore, we offer our employees with a range of health benefits.

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  • Occupational medicine service
  • Extensive occupational safety measures
  • Occupational health management
  • Employee assistance program: external counseling
  • Free swimming pool use
  • Reduced gym price (Troisdorf only)
  • Fruit weeks (Troisdorf only)
  • Burn-out counseling
Benefits

We benefit from your work and that should pay off for you too. Alongside the attractive rates of pay agreed for the German chemical industry, we offer many fringe benefits.

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  • Attractive remuneration (collective agreement for the German Chemical industry)
  • Company pension plan
  • Profit-related bonus payments
  • Annual bonus
  • Subsidized canteens
  • Deferred compensation plan for managers and AT-grade employees
  • Company cars for sales reps and managers
  • Vacation pay for non-managerial employees
  • Long-service benefits
Personal Development

The personal and professional development of our employees is important to us. Whether you are just starting out your career or already have many years’ experience, we offer a range of opportunities for further development. 

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  • Continuous professional development, training and coaching
  • Vocational training, internships, supervision of bachelor‘s dissertations and master‘s theses and student jobs
  • Early opportunity to take on responsibility
  • Regular appraisals
  • Opportunities for interdepartmental project work
  • Talent management
  • Foreign assignments
Community & Society

Working for Kuraray means being part of a community. We have a tradition of commitment and social responsibility. That includes company events to foster community spirit and involvement in social projects.

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  • Employee events: summer party, Christmas party, long-service anniversaries
  • Biannual employee magazine (with employee input)
  • Joint participation in sports events: J P Morgan Corporate Challenge, Bonn corporate race 
  • Charity work: Malteser Social day, Christmas in a shoebox, Ad-hoc charity collections, support for employees who take on voluntary work
  • Company suggestion plan
Career & Familiy

Lifelong Working: We want to make sure that you can be fully committed to your work and still accommodate your personal plans at all stages in your life.

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  • Mobile work
  • Flexible worktime model
  • Long-term accounts for AT-grade and non-managerial employees
  • Support looking for childcare spaces (Terminal for Kids)
  • Emergency childcare (Hattersheim and Frankfurt only)
  • Special parent and child office (Hattersheim only)
  • CareFlex chemical supplementary care insurance