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ZAWe are One Suntory family. We provide opportunities for personal and professional growth, health and well-being with long term view, while empowering our people to deliver results.
Our People
At SBFK, we foster strong employee engagement, we have cultivated a diverse and inclusive workplace with strong cultural integration and transparent communication, where everyone is valued and has a sense of belonging.
FAMILY
YATTE MINAHARE!
Just like our founders, we set exciting and ambitious goals and then tenaciously pursue their achievement. We demonstrate a spirit of never giving up.
ENGAGEMENT
We are bonded by the Founding Spirit and vision of "Growing for Good." Each and every day, our highly engaged and unique individuals work in harmony, bring our very best and create value that surprises and delights our customers, consumers and society.
Discovery and Promotion of People with the Potential for Success in a Global Arena
Group Talent Review
Every year Suntory Group members carry out a talent review covering each country, region, and business area in which they are involved. The purpose of this process is to discover, develop, and utilize human resources with the potential to make a group-wide contribution at the global level. Review results are shared and discussed across the entire Group. Senior managers from each group meet to look at the positioning of key talent in the Group, to draw up succession plans for key positions, and consider the relocation of personnel to different countries or business areas. This process creates a wide range of growth opportunities and plays an important role in career development. We will continue to evolve our group-wide talent development systems.
Leadership Development, Training Programs
The Suntory Group recognizes people as the source of corporate growth. This philosophy was re ected in the establishment of the Suntory University human resource development program in April 2015. The Suntory Group is continually developing business leaders to drive business growth, by providing opportunities for people aspiring to a higher-level business career to stretch their career goals. The diverse training curricula go beyond traditional operational categories and include opportunities to work with or in other companies and countries. They are also linked to management strategies. There are programs for people at various career levels, including the Global Leadership Development Program for team leaders, the Beyond Borders Program for organization leaders, and the Global Leadership Forum for next-generation management candidates. The Career Challenge Program is designed to strengthen the basic skills needed for global operations, while the Trainee Program allows people to develop their cultural adaptability through OJT with overseas Group companies. In addition, there are training courses designed to share and disseminate knowledge and policies relating to speci c functions, such as production and R&D.
Sharing and Disseminating the Founding Spirit
We have developed activities to ensure that people in all Group companies in Japan and overseas understand and share the Suntory corporate philosophy and founding spirit—Yatte Minahare, and giving back to society. Under the Suntory Group's Ambassador Program, we use lectures, facility tours, and workshops to deepen understanding about Suntory's founding spirit, while building a sense of unity as members of the Suntory Group. Senior executives from SBF visit business sites in Japan and overseas and actively participate in town hall meetings to talk about the founding spirit and SBF's vision in their own words.
Reforms toward Productivity Improvement and More Flexible Workstyles
Suntory Group employees come from a wide range of backgrounds. We have implemented a variety of initiatives to help them work energetically while achieving high productivity, including the introduction of flextime, the promotion of teleworking, and the use of shared offices in Japan. Other innovations that are helping to improve individual skill levels and day-to-day productivity are intranet-based knowledge sharing, and IT skill training programs that we have developed in-house. We are progressively using robotic process automation (RPA) to improve efficiency, and we are expanding the range of processes covered by this initiative to include administrative and sales management areas.
In 2016, we established the "Terakoya" (temple school) website as a forum where employees can use time freed up through productivity improvement to achieve further personal growth by engaging in their own learning and teaching activities. Through this site, where employees can share their personal interests and skills regardless of their work or positions, we are encouraging the development of a culture in which anyone can learn or be taught.
Promoting Health Management
Both Suntory Holdings Limited and Suntory Beverage & Food Limited were recognized in the large enterprise category of the 2020 "White 500" list, a joint initiative of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Nippon Kenko Kaigi to recognize outstanding health and productivity management organizations.
The Suntory Group believes its competitive strength lies in the health and well-being of its employees who can engage enthusiastically in their work. Based on this view, the company announced its Declaration on Health Promotion in 2014, and launched new Health and Productivity Management and Workstyle Reform initiatives in 2016.
Suntory will continue to support the health and well-being of each employee, and strive to create new value with the vitality they bring to the company.
