We aim to attract and keep the best talent within a performance-based culture that values, supports and rewards team and individual contribution.We want our people to achieve their full potential and feel confident of meeting the challenges that working in a competitive global business brings. In particular, we focus on providing an energising work environment, excellent learning and development opportunities and competitive and flexible reward and benefit programmes.

Within R&D, people at every level share responsibility for encouraging a culture based on openness, innovation, respect, empowerment, customer focus, risk taking and global team working. These shared values permeate our business, from individual work to teamwork and through to our external collaborations.

We are committed not only to delivering top quality science but also to high ethical standards in doing so. Our Bioethics Policy reflects this commitment and it is widely communicated within the R&D community and the Company in general to ensure that we continue to live up to the standards set out within it. The policy includes strict guidelines on the care and use of laboratory animals, the study of which plays a vital role in the development of medicines that help to improve the health and quality of life for people around the world.