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WHY JOIN US
AWARDS AND ACCOLADES
WORKING HERE
DEVELOPING YOURSELF
REWARD
DIVERSITY WITHIN ASTRAZENECA

WHY JOIN US?
There are many reasons to consider a career with us. Roll over and click on an area below to explore 'why join us?'

Helping make a difference
We discover new medicines that improve the health and quality of life of patients around the world. We’ve achieved success in key therapy areas, including high-potential therapies for cancer, gastrointestinal disease, asthma, hypertension, high cholesterol, migraine and schizophrenia.
The discovery and development of a new medicine is a remarkable scientific, commercial and professional achievement – delivering new medicines that make a real difference to people’s health and quality of life.
So whether you join us in research and development, sales and marketing or are providing the critical business services support to our organisation, working for AstraZeneca means that you are helping to make a difference.

Excellent development opportunites
Much more than access to great training courses, we offer a supportive development environment, where your aspirations can become a reality.
We’ll expect you to take ownership of your own development from an early stage. After all, leadership at all levels is one of our key values, so you’re encouraged to take on as much responsibility as possible, and drive your own professional growth.
As your ambitions and ideas develop, you can move around different areas of the business to gain a wider appreciation of our company. For our high-fliers there are also opportunities to experience leadership development courses and international assignments, which allow you to develop your career within a global context.

A passion for discovery
Our success is based on a commitment to discovery, going beyond what’s expected to find new ways of bringing benefit to all our stakeholders – patients, healthcare professionals, shareholders, employees, and the wider community.
We aim to stimulate continued creativity throughout our organisation by maintaining a culture in which our people feel valued, energised and rewarded for their ideas and contribution to our success - ideas which can make a difference in all aspects of our business. This means you’ll have the freedom to challenge, discover, create and solve.

Flexible rewards
As you would expect from a business with so many skilled and highly qualified people, the salary and benefit packages at AstraZeneca are designed to be very competitive. We also understand that each individual’s aspirations and needs are unique, so we take an innovative approach to providing flexible rewards.
This means you have the freedom to pick and choose the benefits that add most value to your quality of life.
There is also a shares/stock and cash bonus plan, which blends overall company performance with team and individual success. It’s our way of recognising your contribution and sharing the reward from our achievements.

Our people,our culter
What is quite apparent when you join AstraZeneca is that it is full of talented people, with a diverse range of backgrounds and skills. Not just in the field of cutting edge science and technology, but in every part of our business.
Our culture is made up of actions and behaviours that put patient health at the heart of our business. We’re focused on building a culture of high performing teams who challenge the status quo, look for opportunities for improvement, and work together in an open, honest and supportive way. Do you want to be part of it?

Healthy prospects
Every year we invest billions on researching new medicines, a level of expenditure that has helped give us a strong product pipeline. As developments in science and technology open new doors in the drug discovery, development and delivery process, the next decade will see a new era of growth, change and opportunity right across the business.
Now is truly an exciting and challenging time to join our transforming and developing business.

World-class facilities
Our employees work across a number of locations, with key sites located in Sweden, the U.K and the U.S. Our R&D sites enjoy advanced facilities for scientific exploration and commercial development, and we continue to invest in new buildings, infrastructure and technology across all parts of our business.
Some of our largest sites are located in areas that offer excellent lifestyle and quality of life benefits, and we provide support for social, cultural and sporting activities too.

A global presence
Over 67,000 employees worldwide. Active in over 100 countries, manufacturing in 20 and major research centres in 8. It's not just our stakeholders who benefit from our international presence. Your career could get a boost too.
We encourage our people to share their knowledge and ideas across boundaries, to build teams that celebrate diversity but which also embrace common goals. And if you can rise to the challenge of global working there may be opportunities for secondments and foreign assignments to benefit you from a variety of learning opportunities within a global context.

An energising work environment
We aim to create the kind of working environment that genuinely inspires people, an energising culture in which you have the freedom to question, to challenge and to discover.  
AstraZeneca is a global company, with a huge range of specialists from different cultures and backgrounds. The diversity of our people is one of our greatest strengths, so you’ll find we are a business that recognises and values difference, and actively encourages the sharing of knowledge and ideas.
We also understand that quality of life and quality of work go hand in hand. That’s why we support work-life balance and enable flexible working arrangements whenever possible.

AWARDS AND ACCOLADES
Over and over, AstraZeneca is being lauded as a great company to work for. Here are a selection of some of our recent awards:
Universum's Företagsbarometern 2008 - Sweden
This year AZ is number 8 (last year 6) on the list of most popular employers among graduate students studying to become engineers. In total 15,128 graduate students in economy, civil engineering, IT or law participated in the Swedish based survey.

Opportunity Now Winner
AstraZeneca scooped the joint top prize in an Opportunity Now award, which celebrates best practice in gender diversity in the workplace. The award follows the publication of the 2006 Female FTSE Report. The report, published by the International Centre for Women Business Leaders at Cranfield School of Management, looked at the number of women on UK boards. It shows that AstraZeneca is ahead of other leading companies when it comes to the number of women we have in senior positions.

Science Journal Top Employers Awards
For the fifth consecutive year, AstraZeneca was named a “top employer” in Science magazine’s ranking of the world’s most respected biopharmaceutical employers.
The ranking, determined from a survey conducted by an independent research firm commissioned by the business office of the global journal, Science, appears in a special supplement. This year, AstraZeneca ranked #5.

The UK Graduate Survey 2006
AstraZeneca was ranked ‘36’ in the Top 50 'Best opportunities for UK Graduates' in The Times/High Fliers research annual study of university finalists.
The survey polled nearly 16,000 students at 30 leading UK universities. The annual study produced by High Fliers Research Ltd, an independent market research organisation, seeks to measure finalists' perceptions, aspirations and expectations of graduate employers.

'Big Tick' in Business in The Community UK
AstraZeneca has been awarded an Awards (BitC) for Excellence 2005-6, for its approach to the health and well-being of employees in the UK. The award is supported by the Department of Health, in association with the Health and Safety Executive. The Big Tick is awarded to companies that demonstrate excellence in the way they organise and integrate responsible business practices, and show positive impact on business and society.

Universum Communication 'Företagsbaromentern 2006' Sweden
AstraZeneca was ranked ‘6’ among Science and Engineering students in the annual study of favourite employers run by Universum Communication.
The survey polled more than 11,000 students in Economics, Computer Science, Science and Engineering. For the fourth consecutive year, AstraZeneca was the most popular pharmaceutical company.

25 Noteworthy Companies List - DiversityInc Magazine (U.S)
This list recognizes companies who have made significant strides in several important areas, including human capital, CEO commitment, corporate communications and supplier diversity. AstraZeneca’s main diversity focus has been on recruitment, including recruiting people with disabilities and retention. Company-funded and company-sponsored networking groups and work/life-balance initiatives are accredited to AstraZeneca’s ongoing progress.

Best Employer for Healthy Lifestyles - National Business Group on Health (U.S)
AstraZeneca is one of three-dozen U.S. employers recognised for their innovative efforts to battle obesity and promote a healthy work environment for their employees by providing meaningful fitness and lifestyle improvement programs.

100 Best Companies for Working Mothers - Working Mother Magazine (U.S)
AstraZeneca has been recognized for the sixth year in a row from among hundreds of companies for excellence in the areas of work/life culture, flexibility, family friendly programs, childcare, women’s advancement and total compensation.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES
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WORKING HERE
We have a passion for innovation and discovery, so working here means you will have the opportunity to create, solve, challenge and improve.
We understand that our success depends on providing our people with an environment in which they can thrive. And that's just what we're doing. It's an approach that makes our people a priority.

Ours is an exciting and dynamic business - and a demanding one. We believe that if we expect people’s continued energy and commitment at work, we must provide the right environment for that to happen.

We aim to make working at AstraZeneca an energising and fulfilling experience. We want people to be positive and enthusiastic about what they are doing, with a clear sense of purpose, and pride in their individual contribution to the company's success.

This means providing inspiring and effective leadership, open lines of communication, excellent learning and development opportunities, a safe and energising workplace, competitive reward and benefits and a culture of equal opportunity in which individual success depends solely on personal merit and performance.

We also encourage and support a healthy work-life balance, which we know is essential to the continued well-being of all our employees worldwide.

And because our business is based on innovation, we encourage people to be continuously creative, to question assumptions and systems, to challenge each other and build on fresh insights to find new and better ways of doing things. Do you want to be part of it? View our global opportunities to find out more.

DEVELOPING YOURSELF
lfMore than just access to courses and programmes, we offer a development environment where your aspirations can become a reality.
AstraZeneca's continued success depends on the skills of its people, and we are committed to developing the wide range of capabilities that our global workforce offers.

Leadership by example, at all levels, is one of our key values. We want all our people to act as leaders and to take responsibility for moving the company forward.
Central to our success in creating the kind of organisation we aspire to, is our ability to respond to this challenge by developing leadership capabilities at all levels.

Responsible leadership enables AstraZeneca, through its people, to cope with the complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty of our changing business environment. At AstraZeneca we recognise that styles of leadership are unique and personal to the individual. And yet effective leaders do share common traits and behaviours. So we've developed a simple, commonly understood framework of leadership capabilities to help identify and develop our leaders of today and tomorrow.

"We need to have the ability to take courageous decisions, focused on doing the right thing, not the easy thing. We need to be able to hold ourselves and others accountable."

David Brennan, Chief Executive Officer

The AstraZeneca Leadership Capabilities:
Passion for Customers
Understands customers and uses that insight to provide value
Thinks Strategically
Quickly identifies and acts on opportunities, combining forethought with
action. This is based on an understanding of the external environment and its impact on AZ.
Acts Decisively
Makes and acts on decisions quickly and effectively and fosters the same in others. This is based on an underlying courage to enable risk-taking for the business.
Drives Performance
Holds self and others accountable for the achievement of performance expectations. Creates an environment that enables others to perform at their best.
Works Collaboratively
Actively creates and promotes cross-boundary collaboration with the aim of achieving better business results. Boundaries can exist between individuals, geographies, cultures, teams, functions, organisations
Develops People and Organisation
Demonstrates a genuine commitment to the time and effort needed to
develop oneself and others.
To help you build on your strengths and focus on areas for improvement, our global leadership development programmes offer world-class guidance and coaching. Of course, developing our leaders isn't simply about attending courses and seminars. Our approach focuses on self-analysis, reflection, feedback and understanding the impact of what you do - only then will personal change will be implemented by practising the behaviours you are committed to developing.

We recognise that most people aren't born as natural leaders. And even great leaders need support. But whether you are a leader today, or have a desire to develop your skills for tomorrow, our approach to leadership development will help ensure you’re given the support to perform at your best.