BAT Vietnam - BAT Vietnam certified as a top employer in Asia-Pacific for the fourth time

British American Tobacco Vietnam (BAT Vietnam) has recently certified as a Top Employer in 2024 by the Top Employers Institute - a global authority with nearly 30 years of operation.

This is the fourth year (2019, 2020, 2023 and 2024) BAT Vietnam has been recognized one of only 10 companies in Vietnam with proven best people practices by this global prestigious institute.

Especially, BAT Vietnam has 18 out of 20 sub-categories above global benchmark based on the participation and results of HR Best Practices Survey conducted and evaluated by the institute.

Moreover, BAT Vietnam achieved a perfect score in seven categories, including Business Strategy, People Strategy, Leadership, Employer Branding, Purpose & Values, Ethics & Integrity and Organization & Change. This reflects the great alignment with the company’s people-focused goals in 2024 strategy.

Top Employers Institute is well knowned as the global authority on recognizing excellence in people practices. Through the Top Employers Institute Certification Programme, participating companies can be validated, certified, and recognized as an employer of choice. In 2024, the Top Employers Institute has certified more than 2,300 organizations in 121 countries/regions. These certified top employers positively impact the lives of over 12 million employees globally.

The Top Employer 2024 certification demonstrates BAT Vietnam’s commitment to creating values and promoting outstanding conditions so that employees can always develop and fulfill their careers as well as putting their people as the root of the company’s every success.

As for its people strategy, the company is strongly interested in rebooting succession and talent development with the achievement of 46% women in management roles. Especially, the company lauches the Human Deal programme for management. This is seen as the conversation about life stages to better understand priorities in work and life of the people working for the company. In addition, recognizing employee contribution through tier awards or BAT awards plays a key role in the strategy.

Regarding the leadership, more than 100 employees from various management levels have gone through leadership training courses. The company is also committed to people development via coaching, mentoring, sharing, etc.

With respect to organization and change, BAT Vietnam always maintains common interest clubs such as the Sport Club as well as the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Service for year round wellbeing.

Mr. Hamzah Fazal - Cluster Head of Talent, Culture, Inclusion of BAT Vietnam stated: “I am extremely proud that BAT Vietnam has been again honored as one of the ten leading employers in Vietnam for Top Employer Certification this year. Recognizing that our employees are the core of the business, we highly invested our efforts in deploying Human Deal Initiatives, aiming to customize our offerings and support to employees based on their life priorities. In 2023, actions were taken across all levels, we called it a Year of Diversity & Inclusion. This certification proves continuous commitment & dedication of all BAT business leaders, who prioritize people and contribute to the transformation of making BAT Vietnam a Top Employer.”