Novartis Pharmaceuticals Wins Best Workplace Award

Novartis İlaç, a leading pharmaceutical company in Turkey with years of service and investments in the sector, has received the "Best Workplace" award under the "Kincentric Best Employers 2019 Program" conducted by Kincentric, one of the world's leading companies in human resources and management consulting. Demonstrating successful performance in the areas of "Employee Engagement, Engaging Leadership, Agility and Talent Focus," Novartis İlaç once again demonstrated the success of its human resources practices with this award.

Dr. Senay Kızılkaya, Human Resources Director at Novartis Turkey, noting that this award is a source of pride for them as Novartis İlaç, stated: "The happiness of our employees is our highest priority.

We know that the foundation of our sustained success rests on happy and content employees, and in this regard, we provide our employees with work environments through flexible working models where they can develop themselves and contribute value to the organization. Through the human resources practices we have maintained for years as Novartis İlaç, we have created a strong Novartis culture. To take our culture even further, we place great importance on the views and feedback of each of our employees. It honors us that our employees appreciate the good practices we have implemented," he said. Dr. Avinash Potnis, General Manager of Novartis İlaç Turkey, stated: "We are very pleased and proud to be recognized as a worthy recipient of the 'Best Workplace' award by Kincentric. For Novartis İlaç, 2020 has been another year of awards and success. This year, we won the 'Best Employer' award for Europe and Turkey for the third consecutive time by the Top Employers Institute, and we received the 'Best Employer' award in the '2020 Turkey's Best Employers' research conducted by Great Place to Work. Selected as 'Turkey's Best Employer' for the fifth consecutive time, Novartis İlaç was also recognized this year in special award categories with the 'EVP (Employer Brand Award)', '5th Year Special Award', and 'Best Workplace for Women Employees' awards. Our success in the HR field is reinforced each year. We owe this success to our employees and their ownership of the culture we have created. The awards we have received show us that we are on the right path and motivate us to do better work," he said.