Desired Human Resources

Person who fully agrees with the Shionogi’s Company Policy and is prepared to win his/her own future by himself/herself.

What drives us, the Shionogi Family, is
our strong determination to constantly supply the best possible medicine to protect the health and wellbeing of the patients we serve
We will win the future we aim at

Which is:

Challenging!: We take on challenges of “1 in 30,000”

Drug discovery is very severe, tough challenge with a 1 in 30,000 chance of success.
We will never give up but continue to take on this challenge, fighting along with patients suffering from diseases.
Because it is our mission.

Growing!: We advance into the world with our own strengths

Diseases have no borders.
We want to deliver the best possible medicine to patients around the world.
Having established its own global development and sales bases with the aim of being independent and keeping steady growth as a R&D-driven global pharmaceutical company, Shionogi is now ready to get onto a growth path.

Encouraging!: We devote all our efforts to make patients smile

The road we take is not an easy one.
We must keep struggling to overcome the challenges.
What drives us is just one aspiration.
To make patients smile,

we will keep struggling.

Shionogi has formulated the definition for managers and department heads, clarifying the desired personnel image for the Shionogi managers and department heads to support the continuous growth of Shionogi as a research-driven drug discovery company. To encourage changes in actions in view of their desired personnel image, Shionogi evaluates managers taking into consideration the definition for them, thereby promoting familiarization of the definition and enhancement of managers. Managers and department heads are encouraged to refer to the definition as a tool to help humbly reflect on themselves, train themselves, or develop prospective managers.

Shionogi defines its managers as persons who:

• understand well that a manager’s duties cannot be performed as an extension of what they have done but should be performed as a totally new job;
• see their subordinates as indispensable, know the importance of the responsibility to train them, and therefore study by themselves harder than anyone else;
• always pay attention to outside and try to establish networks inside and outside the Company so as to humbly know the level of themselves, while keeping updating information necessary to cause innovation to operation in the group;
  think and act not only from the perspective of own organization but from the perspective of overall optimization;
• have a fighting spirit and are striving to be an outstanding manager in the organization, by honing the ability to logically promote own proposals;
• with experience of being involved in compliance promotion, implement compliance with high awareness; and
• always return to the Company Policy, Shionogi’s philosophy, have the pride as the member of Shionogi, and work to strengthen own expertise and skills as well as to enhance the dignity as humans.

* Characteristics that are strongly desired of Shionogi’s managers are listed from the characteristics generally expected of a manager.