Careers
Are you interested in a career at Karger?
Karger Publishers is organized in an open, high-flow circle system, which intends to ensure that each employee is given the trust to own responsibilities, the opportunity to gain visibility, and the incentive to foster collaboration. Read more about our circles
Karger Circles
Academic & Research Circle
The Academic & Research Circle manages the publishing business for academic and research markets. The team builds strong customer relationships with individual researchers, librarians, academic institutions, societies and funders. It creates and maintains a leading journals and books portfolio. The team aims to continually optimize customer experiences and enrich Karger’s value in the community with new products and services.
Healthcare Circle
The Healthcare Circle serves Karger’s customers and stakeholders in the field of healthcare. This includes doctors, patients, and industry representatives. The circle does this by creating high-quality medical handbooks, e-learning, and digital assets (such as podcasts and animations), and by ensuring effective dissemination of these materials.
Experience Circle
The Experience Circle ensures and enhances a consistent Karger customer experience and promotes customer centricity, removing friction across touchpoints along the customer journeys. A seamless customer experience leads to loyal institutional and industry customers as well as returning authors. Enthusiastic customers talk about their positive experiences online and peer to peer. Creating a comprehensive customer experience that exceeds customer expectations is critical for the growth of the business. The circle takes up all topics related to customer experience, including but not limited to sales, marketing, branding, customer service, customer relationship management (CRM), personalization, and data quality.
Power Organization Circle
The Power Organization Circle supports the group as a centralized hub with robust Human Resources, Finance, Insights, Legal, Digital Landscape, and Building & Administration services. The circle harnesses collective expertise, fosters cross-functional collaboration, and implements impactful decisions that align with the company's long-term vision and goals. It aims to create a working environment which is functional, pleasant, and motivating for everyone.
Management Board Circle
The members of the Management Board assume their editorial responsibility and their duty to take charge of all the activities of the company in line with the applicable law and internal policies, including supervision and control on a day-to-day basis.
Strategy, Innovation & Change Circle
The Strategy, Innovation and Change Circle aims to drive organizational success by strategically deciding the path forward, fostering collaboration to contribute diverse perspectives, applying plans effectively, and ensuring smooth implementation of innovations and strategies. The circle combines innovative thinking with practical execution, in order to achieve sustainable growth and adaptability in today's dynamic business landscape and supports and cultivates an agile mind-set and teamwork across all units at Karger.
Our Benefits
We are a family owned company in the 4th generation and value the personal space and family commitments of our employees.
- We offer a very generous remote work policy that comes along with an outstanding IT infrastructure
- Our working hours comprise 40 hours per week at full-time
- We offer flexible working hours
- We offer space for personal development and welcome new ideas and initiatives
- We give you the opportunity to take over responsibility and develop professionally (e.g. collaboration in a circle system, LinkedIn Learning)
- We offer a centrally located, modern office space in Basel that contributes to innovation and collaboration
- For long-term employees, we offer additional social benefits, which go beyond the average market offerings
Testimonials
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From titles published in 1890 to daily insights – data management tackles them all
The Data management team has two main goals.
His historic role is to maintain Karger's publication archive in physical and electronic form and ensure the delivery of metadata and content data to bookstores, distributors, and e-Partners.
With a good knowledge of the whole Karger product portfolio, the Data Management team is the right contact not only for the actual publications, but also for all the titles published since 1890.
Since 2020, the team is also in charge of the development, and the operational maintenance of the Company's data platform, that is the source of the reports used to deliver insights to the business units on a daily basis.
I'm pleased to lead this very dedicated team who enjoys meeting very regularly in the office to deal with the challenges of Karger’s data management.
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High share of women in management thanks to trust and understanding
It is always difficult to juggle a career and family and everything else – but Karger has made it so much easier. What matters at Karger is getting the work done well when it makes sense, not having employees in a chair from 9-5. The flexible working times and ability to work remotely, as well as the trust and understanding shown by upper management, have permitted me to enjoy an interesting, challenging position while still being there when my kids need me. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that Karger has a fairly high share of women in management. -
Being part of a motivated team makes a difference
Working in a dynamic and diverse environment.
Collaborating with colleagues from a wide range of cultures.
Overcoming daily challenges as part of a motivated and supportive team.
All of this motivates me to start each workday with a positive attitude.
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Opportunities to connect with different cultures and to grow
I have worked at Karger Publishers for more than 20 years in the field of sales as well as regional office and agent management with a focus on supporting and coordinating the roll-out of Karger’s strategy and evolving products and services through our international networks world-wide.
While Karger has a strong commitment to being Swiss-based and a family-owned medium sized publishing house, we are an international medical content and healthcare service provider. It’s global operations with more than 10 offices and representations world-wide, a global editorial network and customer base, participation in international events, trade fairs have given me and my colleagues opportunity to connect with different cultures and to grow with the challenges and changing requirements of our stakeholders in this industry world-wide.
At the same time, Karger has actively enabled and supported my personal development and transition through various business units by offering different roles and highly flexible work models supported by an excellent infrastructure.
While navigating a fast-changing and challenging environment in the publishing industry to which Karger as an independent, medium-sized publisher constantly needs to adapt, the company’s consistent strong focus on putting both our stakeholders’ needs at the centre of everything we do, and in equal measure to maintain and foster a multi-cultural, cooperative, respectful, supportive and reliable working environment for it’s employees continues to inspire a high level of dedication and identification.
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Karger is forward-thinking, innovative and encourages new strategies and ideas
As a Customer Engagement Manager at Karger, my job is dynamic and fulfilling. As part of the lively academic and research market team, I work mainly in touch with librarians, information specialists, open access experts, researchers, and professors, and I liaise often with the marketing team to maximize the impact of Karger's content and services. My role involves delivering numerous trainings and presentations, and attending conferences to stay up to speed with the latest trends in scholarly publishing. Organizing events like our successful 'Karger in Conversation' panel series allows me to engage directly with our customers. I travel frequently and meet a diverse range of people, which keeps my work exciting and varied. Though Karger is a relatively small publishing house, it is forward-thinking and innovative, encouraging new strategies and ideas. I appreciate the supportive team I am part of, the excellent work-life balance, and the flexibility that Karger offers.
How to Find Us
Our offices are located at Allschwilerstrasse 10, just off the Brausebad intersection in the direction of the village of Allschwil.
