Outstanding factors that help Novartis become a comprehensive “Best Places to work for in Asia”

SUSTAINABLE WORKING ENVIRONMENT WITH HIGH ETHICAL STANDARDS
With the vision of Reimagining Medicine, Novartis always strives to invent transformative and breakthrough medicines to improve the treatment outcomes for patients. To date, millions of Vietnamese patients have had access to the most advanced treatments from Novartis.

Novartis emphasizes ethics in all its operations. Typically, employees at Novartis are encouraged to Be Open, Be Bold, Be Honest and Be Accountable in all activities. In addition, Novartis employees are constantly given every opportunity to maximize their potential and become the best version of themselves with the ICUI culture: Inspired, Curious, Unbossed and Integrity.

COMMITMENT TO PROMOTING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION
At Novartis, the differences and diversity of each individual play an important role in the continuous innovation and development of the business. Therefore, the company is always committed to promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) through building a working environment where their staff always feel welcome, free to demonstrate their abilities, as well as become an indispensable part of the collective.

With the policy of "Growth for all” and by breaking down prejudices about generations, gender, ethnicity, etc., all members of the organization are presented with many opportunities to grow and maximize their own potentials and capabilities at work.

Remuneration transparency is considered a progressive and important element of Novartis' human resources strategy, which includes monitoring pay equity consistently globally, eliminating bias in the system, creating pay transparency and achieving gender balance in management.

Specifically, Novartis ensures the application of the principle of equal pay between male and female employees for a job of equal value. In addition, the company is committed to salary transparency by sharing with its employees their salary range compared to internal and external benchmarks, as well as not using candidates' previous salary data as a reference, avoiding salary disparities.

COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS TOWARDS WORK-LIFE BALANCE
Novartis is committed to providing internal policies that optimize employee benefits while focusing on their health care. In addition to the mandatory health insurance by the Vietnamese Government and health insurance packages for employees and their families, Novartis has recently introduced a Critical Illness insurance package for all employees, protecting employee health at the highest level. At working premises, Novartis also creates resources to help employees maintain physical health such as dancing, yoga classes and sport programs (badminton, football, pickleball) on a weekly basis.

To best support its employees, Novartis Vietnam enables flexible working arrangements, applies a 6-month maternity leave regime for both male and female employees, and adds supplemental annual leave days in addition to regulated holidays and annual leaves.

Along with the business development strategy, Novartis Vietnam always respects employees and considers them as the most valuable assets. Therefore, the company has prioritized human resource management strategy, from recruitment process, training to perfecting policy system, activities... to create a professional and sustainable working environment where employees can promote creativity and bring the best values to patients, the community and the whole society.