Total Rewards

In today’s changing pharmaceutical climate, our success is the result of a forward-thinking leadership team and some of the best talent in the industry. To help make your best better, we’ve designed a rewards program that recognizes and rewards top performance.

Our Total Rewards Program provides a strategic framework, which outlines the goals of your position, how you will be empowered to meet them, and how your individual rewards will be determined. We use a pay-for-performance model, designed to reward and recognize your individual performance and contribution to our corporate objectives. Our Lifestyle Solutions offer you first-class benefits to meet your diverse personal and family needs.

Rewarding Performance

In addition to your base compensation, we offer you a Variable Pay Plan that rewards your contribution in meeting clearly defined goals. This annual award is based upon your performance, and its impact on helping us achieve measurable objectives such as earnings per share and annual financial targets, as well as functional unit goals. Your success in these areas is paired with your individual performance ratings to determine your specific award payment.

Lifestyle Solutions

Our commitment to, and investment in our people are the foundation to our Lifestyle Solutions program. We provide innovative and valuable ways to get top quality benefits coverage and save for retirement security, while developing solutions that meet your lifestyle needs. Through extensive research and comparison with best practice organizations, we’ve developed a tailor-made program that allows you to customize a package to suit your individual needs.

Some of the available options include:

• Choosing the benefits and the coverage that best suit your lifestyle
• Employer contributions to your pension
• ability to save money through innovative plans such as the Health Care Expense Account or Personal Spending Account for future lifestyle needs
• Opportunity for additional savings through an Optional Savings Plan
• Investment choices for your retirement savings
• time away from work policy that includes: childcare/elder care/partner care, AstraZeneca days, and December holiday shutdown.

Career Development

We support you in making your best even better. Our management development processes promote talent development within and across business units, and help identify opportunities for skills enhancement and career advancement.