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We want to grow with you. And together, beyond ourselves.
ERGO. Grow together.
ERGO as an employer
Do you want to get to know us better and find out what makes ERGO a great place to work? You may be wondering whether ERGO is the right place for you and your values. Will ERGO give me enough freedom? How could I develop personally? What kind of people work at ERGO? Where can you find out more? Whether you are interested in your personal development, our various training opportunities or benefits, you will find answers here.
There are countless good reasons to pick ERGO as an employer.
Whether you’re at the start or end of your career or somewhere in the middle, we offer varied development opportunities in all departments and at all levels, both in Germany and abroad.
In us, you’ll find an employer who keeps their promises
about pay, perks, compatibility of family and career and advanced training opportunities. If you work for us, you’ll experience a fair and open minded culture where every employee is trusted and valued.
Limitless career opportunities.
ERGO currently operates in around 25 European and Asian countries, with over 20 percent and rising of our premium revenues coming from outside Germany. We work very closely with all our foreign subsidiaries, meaning you can pursue a truly global career while still being based in Germany.
How we work together
Working culture at ERGO
As an employer, we promote agile ways of working, the use and development of new technologies and changed methods to drive the cultural change process in the long term. Support us in the digital transformation.
Grow with us: we promote your professional and personal development with tailored training and development programs. Based on our values, we offer a healthy environment and freedom so that you can identify with your work, contribute, develop and flourish. We offer a positive working atmosphere in which individual needs and mutual consideration are paramount. As a Group, we offer security and a wide range of development prospects. Balancing work and family life is possible with us thanks to a variety of working time models.
In addition, we offer attractive employer benefits: from flexible working hours to the provision of modern technological equipment, many sports and health offers, financial advantages as well as an attractive salary package and above-average social and health services. Our Düsseldorf location in the center of the city offers you a good infrastructure and short commutes.
We live community
We offer various opportunities for employees with shared backgrounds, interests and ideas to come together.
These include, for example, our employee networks (inclusion, pride, people of colour, women, fathers), company sports groups (e.g. badminton, fitness, Pilates, sailing and yoga), sports events or concerts and many other offers. Here, those interested will find space for exchange, sporting activities and fun sharing common interests.
New Work
For us, New Work is an attitude that requires personal responsibility and enables flexibility. This includes an attractive working environment as well as the possibility of mobile working. The office is a place where people meet and exchange ideas, work together and with each other, where they can discuss problems over coffee or lunch and find solutions. Modern, digital tools support hybrid collaboration. We offer a fair framework for this: Mobile working is possible for up to 50 per cent of the monthly working time and therefore offers a high flexibility.
Our offer, your advantages
Benefits
We offer a workplace in which flexible and self-determined work is possible. That allows you to develop and realise your potential. We offer a range of additional benefits for this. Enjoy the many advantages we offer. Find out more about our employer benefits.
- Salary and benefits
- Work-life balance
- Health and sports
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- Career development
- Salary and benefits
- Work-life balance
- Health and sports
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- Career development
How you benefit
Payments & services
We offer a modern and performance-related remuneration system, company pension, holiday and Christmas bonuses, travel allowances, capital-forming benefits and many attractive employee conditions, which you can also find under Benefits.
With our flexible working conditions and hours, you can determine the start, end and duration of your daily working hours yourself – of course in line with operational requirements and labour law. In addition, you can work from home or anywhere else (in Germany) through our ‘New Work’ agreement.
Keep your balance
Career and family
We believe it is important to have a good work-life balance. Career, family and private life: our flexible framework offers freedom and allows a high and self-determined degree of freedom. Lead a team with trust and responsibility, develop projects and expand skills. Grow together.
So that professional success and family time can be better balanced, we have agreed on attractive conditions. With flexible working time models and working conditions, part-time arrangements, part-time management, converting special payments into days off, family-phase-appropriate working, mobile working and family-conscious management, we help our employees to find a good basis.
We have been certified by the ‘berufundfamilie’ (work and family) audit since 2002. As a certified family-friendly company, we have developed a range of measures.
Enjoy a corporate culture in which each person is valued for their abilities. Our diversity management supports a culture of diversity with a range of measures – characterised by appreciation, a working environment free of prejudice and equal opportunities.
Stay fit
Health & sport
To stay fit and healthy, we offer our employees regular medical check-ups and sports activities.
With our company health services, we want to promote the health of our employees. These include, for example, health checks, preventive medical check-ups, travel medical advice and immediate emergency care.
In addition, all employees benefit from an extensive range of sports and many sports groups (from badminton to yoga, football or running groups).
www.ergo-sports.de (German website)
In cooperation with our company health insurance fund, we also offer many digital sports courses. Nutrition training and various health promotion activities are also available.
We are diverse
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
We offer a working environment that is free from bias and exclusion. We benefit from our employees' different qualifications, experiences and ways of thinking. We promote this diversity and potential as part of our corporate culture. Our diversity allows us to continue to grow and offers room for unique successes.
You can look forward to a corporate culture in which each person is valued for their abilities. Our diversity management team uses a range of measures to support a culture of diversity – characterised by appreciation, a working environment free of prejudice and equal opportunities.
Your career path
Career & development
Grow with us through your personal development!
Further training is important to us and a central component that we offer to all our employees. We have a range of development measures on offer for your personal career development. In an orientation meeting, we will work with you to find out
In addition, our #NeuesLernen further training platform offers all employees exciting training and digital learning opportunities.
The following graphic describes one of the many development opportunities:
Employees & locations
Insights into our working world
#ERGOfaces - People at ERGO
No challenge, no growth. No growth, no fun. That’s why I love challenges. I started in corporate development at ERGO in June 2011. I have been dealing with innovation and digitisation topics for over 2 years.
What three personal strengths do you bring to your job?
“A great curiosity and thirst for knowledge, a can-do and a positive-optimistic attitude.”
Which topics at ERGO do you find exciting and why?
“For me, it's innovation and digitalisation. That’s why I chose Digital Ventures. Adaptability and innovative strength of an organisation are the most important success factors in competition.”
What makes you grow?
“Above all, new challenges that we are facing together, especially in cross-functional teams. Always with the focus on creating added value for our customers.”
Listening to each other, giving space for different perspectives and allowing change that’s how a diverse team can grow together. I already focused on actuarial science when I was studying mathematics and have been in the actuarial department at ERGO since 2019. There I deal with complex issues that we solve in interdisciplinary teams.
What three personal strengths do you bring to your job?
“My attitude is: together we can do anything! Supporting others and receiving support is important to me. Even if it sometimes takes a little longer, you learn a lot on the way to your goal.
Team spirit, willingness to help, willingness to learn”
Which topics at ERGO do you find exciting and why?
“Diversity issues, because they concern us all. No matter what role or position we have at ERGO. That's why I find it so exciting to help shape these topics as part of networking and to work with so many different people from different departments.”
What makes you grow?
“I am aware that I cannot know everything and that things are constantly changing. That's why I like to listen to people and try to understand other perspectives. This exchange gives me a lot and makes me grow.”
For me it´s important to change things, but to involve the people in that process. I think transformation only works if we engage the people. My dual study program in business informatics led me to ERGO in 2008. After that, I im-mediately managed various IT projects. I have been in charge of the Transformation Man-agement department for over 3 years.
What three personal strengths do you bring to your job?
“I am totally motivated and can pass that on to my team very well. I think quickly and ana-lytically, which allows me to understand and explain many things easily. I also have a good feeling for people and can relate to their different needs.”
Which topics at ERGO do you find exciting and why?
“I am particularly driven by the entire field of IT. How do we build a modern information technology organisation for the future? How do we create a modern and inspiring atmos-phere in the working world? Personally, I like to focus on change processes. How do I achieve this goal?”
What makes you grow?
“I grow through having a great team on my side. I am inspired to see how things change and move in the right direction.”
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- Faces Dursch
- Faces Brockhusen
Impressions of our locations in Germany
- Düsseldorf
- Berlin
- Cologne
- Hamburg
- Mannheim
- Munich
- Nuremberg
- Düsseldorf
- Berlin
- Cologne
- Hamburg
- Mannheim
- Munich
- Nuremberg
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Responsibility
Sustainability at ERGO
We take our responsibility seriously!
Our long-term commitment focuses on five areas of activity: sustainable economic activity, environmental and climate protection, appreciation of our employees, social commitment and responsible corporate governance.
We are constantly developing our activities in these various areas.
Sustainable management
We align our offering with the needs of our customers, support them with sustainable insurance solutions and invest capital sustainably. We aim to reduce CO2 emissions in our portfolios to net zero by 2020.
Environmental and climate protection
Our business operations have been climate-neutral since 2015 because we offset CO2 emissions that cannot be avoided. We aim to reduce emissions to net zero by 2030. In addition, we promote reforestation projects and climate-friendly business ideas.
Appreciation for employees
We promote the individual development of our employees, support them in balancing work and family life, and attach great importance to equal rights and career opportunities for women.
Social commitment
We align our funding priorities to the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, support international projects as well as environmental and social causes at our sites, and help people in need.
Responsible corporate governance
We manage our company responsibly and ensure that human and labor rights are respected within the company and by our business partners. Our own Code of Conduct sets out our values and requirements.
At a glance
Awards & key figures
- Awards
- Key figures
- Awards
- Key figures
Top Employer Germany 2024
The "Top Employer" award is presented annually by the Top Employers Institute. It is only awarded to companies that successfully submit to an extensive auditing process.
The Top Employers Institute has been the global institution for the certification of outstanding employer qualities for over 30 years.
ERGO has been recognized by the Top Employers Institute as one of the most attractive employers in Germany for the second time in a row. This award confirms that we have further developed and improved our standards.
Staff numbers Germany by location*
| Location | Backo office | Employees in field sales |
Total |
| Berlin | 616 | 49 | 665 |
| Düsseldorf | 4,431 | 121 | 4,552 |
| Hamburg | 1,963 | 89 | 2,052 |
| Cologne | 2,662 | 97 | 2,759 |
| Mannheim | 244 | 24 | 268 |
| Munich | 943 | 121 | 1,064 |
| Nuremberg | 1,168 | 490 | 1,658 |
*As of 31.03.2024
You can find more employee key figures in our Sustainability section.
Career start
Your career opportunities
We offer a range of opportunities for you to develop your personality and your potential. School and university students, graduates, young professionals, trainees and experienced professionals will find many exciting career opportunities with us.
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Latest news and job news
Follow us on social media
Social networks are gaining more and more attention at ERGO. As an employer, it is important for us to inform you about current career topics. We give you authentic insights into our working world and share news from the company.
Find out about our current activities on our company profiles on LinkedIN and XING. You will find current job offers and exciting news about ERGO as an employer. Or use this platform to network with future colleagues.
Of course you can also find us on Instagram and YouTube.
#next
Das Corporate Magazin der ERGO Group
In our magazine //next, we tell you what is currently moving us and give you insights into the company.
Read, for example:
- Employee portraits and job insights
- Info on digitalisation & innovation at ERGO
- Stories about our sports sponsorship
And much more awaits you in the //next magazine.