The MMS Culture

Top Five Reasons You’ll Love Working at MMS

At MMS, no matter where our colleagues are located around the world, we are one team with one purpose – to positively improve lives worldwide. #OneMMS is more than just a hashtag. It’s a promise that our organization embraces the unique strengths and experiences of colleagues, providing everyone the opportunity to fortify and grow their talents, as well as enjoy dynamic career opportunities in life sciences.

Our Family Atmosphere

We are an organization that operates like a close-knit family. As an equal opportunity employer, MMS celebrates our global diversity and built a workforce that reflects our communities. We value and promote diversity, and our strength and efforts to celebrate individual differences and cultural backgrounds makes MMS a great place to work.

We create workspaces where all colleagues feel their worth and contribute positively to the business. We have colleagues located across a variety of time zones and when we reach out to each other it seems like we are talking to friends who we have known for years. We welcome our global colleagues to introduce themselves to our new team members in various ways.

Additionally, we partake in various global engagement activities to get to know each other outside of our project work, as well as celebrate colleagues’ life events and work anniversaries to allow our teams to celebrate key moments together. It’s the small things that help us forge relationships, regardless of where we are located.

Our Great Opportunities

MMS follows inclusive hiring practices to attract a diverse pool of candidates across a large spectrum. We hire global colleagues ranging from those with 20+ years of experience to those fresh out of university.

Colleagues are assigned a mentor to help them learn and grow which allows experienced colleagues to share their insight and knowledge and teach techniques to our newer teammates. It’s rewarding to see colleagues who started from entry level roles grow into our next leaders. Our clearly paved career journey, which offers both technical and managerial tracks, supplements our Talent Management Process and System so that our colleagues can build out their own career vision and our management team can help them achieve it!

Additionally, colleagues have opportunities to attend or lead professional training and seminars – the opportunities through our Center of Excellence are endless. Whether you are just starting out, or have many years of focused expertise, MMS has countless opportunities in the pharmaceutical industry for your personal growth and professional development.

Our Team Environment

As one global team, colleagues from Europe, India, South Africa, the United States, and in-between have a unique role to play and deserve the same level of respect as any other colleague, irrespective of the function or level in the organization. While we expect high performance from our team, we practice the Golden Rule – treating people as we would like to be treated. 

At MMS, we encourage our colleagues to take risks and go beyond their comfort zones, while remaining accountable for their work. At the beginning and the mid-point of each year, our Executive Leadership Team holds a Year Beginning Meeting and Mid-Year Meeting, where we collectively review goals, share success stories, and discuss innovation and growth plans.

Each team member plays an active role in the goal-setting process, and in between those touchpoints, every one of our nearly 1,000 colleagues globally meets monthly for our SOUL (Sense of Urgency & Leadership) sessions where we discuss current plans, recognize the team, and share important learnings.

Our Company Events

We host a number of global and local events throughout the year for our colleagues. These events are aimed at having fun, team building, and fostering relationships. The global events celebrate our cultural diversity and promote awareness and respect for each other. Our CSR activities are an attempt to pay back to society, which is a very important corporate value at MMS.

Additionally, we also host a bi-annual Scientific Symposium that provides our teams an opportunity to further their scientific curiosity and learn new industry trends.

Our Training

Continuous learning is a core strength of MMS! With our Center of Excellence, we spend less time worrying about training records and more time focusing on actual development. We have dedicated training administrators to ensure that every module is up-to-date and relevant for the work that you do.

Training is done not only at the time of hire, but throughout the year and consistently throughout your career journey with MMS. Training includes a mix of self-learning modules and live classroom sessions. Our Center of Excellence helps us deliver the latest leadership development and professional programs. We promote continuous learning by encouraging participation in colleague-led book clubs based on a variety of topics, including science-focused, service line appropriate, tech forward, and leadership learning books, among others.

Colleagues with a tenure of expertise in certain areas gain the opportunity to showcase their knowledge through custom-created courses.