to ensure that every level of our organization is focused on ESG issues, to reduce our operations’ climate impact, and to ensure that all our employees feel valued and empowered.
“This report demonstrates our commitment to preserving this world for the global community, both in and outside of the medical field.”
Peter Kirk
Chief Executive Officer
The Policies
Sermo has developed the following policies as part of our ESG program:
Materials Chemicals and Waste Policies
Biodiversity Policy
Environmental Policy
Air Pollution Policy
Water Policy
GHG Emissions Policy
Sustainable Procurement Policy
ESG Management Committee Charter
The People
Meet our ESG Leadership Committee: a diverse and international group of senior managers across departments who are responsible for ensuring that we are meeting our ESG-related goals.
Our committee members include:
Erin Fitzgerald: Chief Marketing Officer
Natalie Federle: General Counsel
Joanna Molke: VP, Marketing
Lydia Synder: People Operations Manager
Chris Kissel: VP, Commercial Success, Life Sciences
Aniko Soltesz: Associate General Counsel
Sabrina Vu: Group Financial Controller
Rebecca D’Ippolito: Head of Global Compliance and Quality, DPO
Adrian Alonso: VP, Platform Operations
Ross Roberge: Client Service Director
The Practices
Sustainability
In order to thrive, every community needs a safe and stable environment. Today, our environment faces potentially its greatest threat to ever exist: climate change. Additionally, each day we learn a new way that climate change impacts (or will impact) our lives. Sermo is not an organization that people typically associate with heavy carbon emissions, but this does not exempt us from our collective responsibility to monitor and control our environmental impact. We prioritize sourcing vendors and other service providers that share our commitment to sustainability.
Supply Chain
As a part of our efforts to improve conditions across our industry, we hold our suppliers to the same standards we hold ourselves. We have adopted a Prohibition on Human Trafficking, Forced Labor and Child Labor Policy and a Modern Slavery Policy that cover both Sermo service providers and our suppliers’ service providers. This year, we plan to create a uniform Supplier Code of Conduct. To ensure that our suppliers consistently comply, we plan to periodically submit information or audit requests to them. Each supplier agrees to the timely completion and return of these materials and agrees to work with us to resolve any issues identified.
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
We maintain a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policy to provide all employees and candidates equal opportunity. Below are some key points from our DE&I Policy:
We recruit based on aptitude and ability, capturing diversity demographics where possible to promote the elimination of unlawful discrimination.
We do not discriminate or allow harassment of our employees based on membership in a protected class.
We do not tolerate harassment, sexual harassment or retaliation.
Employees who experience harassment or retaliation must report the behavior to their supervisor, the next-level supervisor, or human resources.
Supervisors who are aware of harassment or retaliation and fail to report it to Human Resources are subject to discipline.
