SABIC Certified ‘Top Employers 2017’ in Asia Pacific and India for Fourth Consecutive Year

SABIC, a global leader in diversified chemicals, is once again recognised as one of the world’s best employers by the Top Employers Institute, attaining the ‘Top Employers Asia Pacific 2017’ certification for the fourth consecutive year, as well as achieving ‘Top Employers 2017’ certifications in five of the company’s key Asian markets, namely China, India, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. Janardhanan Ramanujalu, Vice President, South Asia & ANZ and Lee Min Yin, Senior Director, Human Resources, Asia Pacific along with employee representatives from SABIC collected the accolade at an official certification dinner hosted by the Institute in Singapore.

“SABIC firmly believes that our employees are one of our most vital assets and this certification is an affirmation of our efforts to be in the forefront of employee engagement, development and career progression. Relying on innovation, with ingenuity and collaboration at its core, we are a preferred employer in the Chemical industry,” said Janardhanan Ramanujalu, Vice President, South Asia & ANZ, SABIC.

“We can innovate for the future because we invest in our people. They are the ones who drive solutions forward, support our growth and help us remain competitive. To ensure the development of SABIC’s human capital, we focus on recruiting the right talent and building a strong workforce with diverse backgrounds, opinions and ideas. To retain talent, we work on creating a culture of empowered, engaged teams working in an inspiring environment,” said Lee Min Yin, Senior Director, Human Resources, Asia Pacific, SABIC.

This is the seventh consecutive year that SABIC has earned the ‘Top Employers’ certification in China and the fourth consecutive year of receiving the certification in India, Japan, South Korea and Singapore – a sound validation of the company’s dedicated efforts towards its employees.

The Top Employers Institute globally certifies excellence in the conditions that employers create for their people. Participating companies must meet the required high standard in the stringent process in order to achieve the certification, which includes an independent audit. Areas of assessment includes talent strategy, workforce planning, on-boarding, learning & development, performance management, leadership development, career & succession management, compensation & benefits and culture.

Within SABIC, periodic organizational health checks conducted at the global level provide performance assessments of its human resource practices and processes, indicating the areas for improvement to support the company’s drive to be the employer of choice.

A successful initiative SABIC administers during the past five years, as part of talent development and building a strong pipeline for leadership roles, is a platform for its Generation Y employees to work on cross-functional cross-region projects that are beyond their usual scope of responsibility. Such projects allow early-career employees to have opportunities to engage with peers and leaders globally, hence broadening their understanding of the company, heightening their confidence level and widening their personal network. In turn, SABIC’s leaders gain an increased visibility and understanding of young talents who are being cultivated within the organization.

As one of the world’s largest petrochemicals manufacturer and material solutions provider, SABIC’s employees are encouraged to make a difference through their work. Its employee value proposition themed ‘People Who Can’, is designed to inspire current and potential employees to create a more innovative, more sustainable and more exciting future for customers and for the world.

SABIC receives the Top Employers 2017certification in Asia Pacific, India, Japan, South Korea and Singapore for the fourth consecutive year from Top Employers Institute

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• SABIC should be written in every instance in all uppercase.

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• For more information on the ‘Top Employers’ certification, please visit www.top-employers.com

About SABIC

SABIC is a global leader in diversified chemicals headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. We manufacture on a global scale in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific, making distinctly different kinds of products: chemicals, commodity and high performance plastics, agri-nutrients and metals.

We support our customers by identifying and developing opportunities in key end markets such as construction, medical devices, packaging, agri-nutrients, electrical and electronics, transportation and clean energy.

SABIC recorded a net profit of SR 18.77 billion (US$ 5 billion) in 2015. Sales revenues for 2015 totaled SR 148.09 billion (US$ 39.49 billion). Total assets stood at SR 328.22 billion (US$ 87.53 billion) at the end of 2015.

SABIC has more than 40,000 employees worldwide and operates in more than 50 countries. Fostering innovation and a spirit of ingenuity, we have filed more than 10,960 patents, and have significant research resources with innovation hubs in five key geographies – USA, Europe, Saudi Arabia, South East Asia and North East Asia.

The Saudi Arabian government owns 70 percent of SABIC shares with the remaining 30 percent publicly traded on the Saudi stock exchange.

At SABIC, we combine a rich track record of doing what others said couldn’t be done with a deep understanding of our customers. But our true impact is as a collaborative partner who can help our customers achieve their ambitions by finding solutions to their challenges. We call this ‘Chemistry that matters™’.

About SABIC in Asia                            

Established in the 1980s, SABIC Asia has over 40 offices and close to 3,000 employees across the region. With 10 manufacturing and compounding sites in China, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Singapore and Thailand, SABIC constantly strives to better serve our customers in the Asian region. A leading global organization in research and technology, we have two Application Centers in Moka, Japan and Sungnam, Republic of Korea and four Technology Centers in Bengaluru, India, Shanghai, China, and Suwon and Daejeon, Republic of Korea.