Company benefits

AstraZeneca appreciates the importance of recognising individual needs and supporting work/life balance

Benefits

Medical aid

AstraZeneca is committed to providing employees and their families with access to the highest quality and most flexible healthcare at competive rates. The company has therefore selected a medical aid scheme that appoints health care consultants to provide education, support, assistance and services to all its members.Employees are able to select their choice of plan to suit their medical aid needs and the employee's contribution will be based on the cost of the plan selected.

Retirement fund

From the date of commencement you are a member of a selected retirement fund. The fund is a defined contribution fund.

Employee incentive schemes

At AstraZeneca South Africa every employee contributes to the successful achievement or our company goals.

We take pride in setting ourselves high standards and then achieving them, whether this is in our unrelenting dedication to research or the way in which we satisfy the needs of our customers. Our success is built upon a solid foundation of teamwork, innovation and customer focus across the whole organisation.

Service Recognition

In order to meet our challenging corporate objectives, one of our Company philosophies is to develop loyal, motivated employees with a long-term committment to AstraZeneca. The AstraZeneca Service Award programme is our way of recognising the contribution you have made to your Company and fellow employees. Employees will be recognised at 5 year intervals with the presentation of a gift at an appropriate company event.