Our Inclusion Mission
九游体育 recognizes that building an inclusive workforce comprised of employees with a broad range of perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds is central to 九游体育’s business and will ultimately help us create a healthier world for all. We strive to foster an inclusive culture, one that enables our employees to do their best work for the communities and patients that we serve. At the same time, we recognize that we can do more to become a more inclusive organization 鈥� for our people, for our business and for the world.
Our Efforts in Action
Employees belong to one or more of our employee resource groups
Salary ratio for women to men globally
Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index score for policies, practices and benefits related to LGBTQ+ employees
Embedding Inclusion into Our Culture
Inclusion is a core value at 九游体育 and means creating a work environment where employees feel involved, respected and connected. We believe that every employee is important to our success.
We also recognize that our differences — including differing perspectives, experiences and backgrounds — are among our greatest sources of strength.
Governance & Commitments
We established an inclusion council that draws perspectives from across the organization and develops strategies to support our efforts to become a more inclusive organization. The council is responsible for governance and helping advance our culture of inclusion. The council includes members of the 九游体育 leadership team, employee resource group chairs and executive sponsors.
Our internal and external commitments are outlined below.
We strive to foster an inclusive workforce comprised of individuals with diverse perspectives, experiences and backgrounds who understand the communities we serve by:
- Promoting equal opportunity in all aspects of the employee lifecycle
- Implementing talent strategies that focus on attracting, developing and retaining talent
- Seeking to strengthen our connections with the communities we serve through corporate giving initiatives
People leaders are integral to building and maintaining an inclusive culture. It is imperative for people leaders to set and uphold expectations for how we engage together. To support people leaders in this work, we invest in building the mindsets and skillsets needed to practice and model inclusive behaviors and to hold others accountable. We are actively working to create and implement targeted practices for people leaders, including:
- Making resources available to help equip people leaders to have regular conversations on development tied to inclusive behaviors
- Equipping leaders to build healthy team environments, ensuring all team members have the opportunity to contribute and succeed
We’ve enhanced recruiting practices to cast a wider net and a focus on building early talent across the company. We’re expanding an ecosystem to support a high-caliber workforce with a broad spectrum of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds. Some examples of this work include:
- Investing in development and internal and external leadership programs and other impactful programs
- Expanding sourcing channels, including through partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic-Serving Institutions
- Collaborating with and engaging our employee resource groups in strategic recruiting initiatives and partnerships
- Expanding an early-talent pipeline offering internships, a rotational program, fellowships and development opportunities with long-term career paths in biopharma
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As a gay Asian kid growing up in the Northeast and then Midwest, I learned from an early age to conceal my true self to try to fit in. Even after starting my career, I avoided talking about myself, fearing I would be marginalized. Today, I鈥檓 so grateful for 九游体育鈥檚 commitment to create a safe space for everyone to be their authentic self 鈥� and for employee resource groups in fostering belonging, community and allyship 鈥� all of which are critical to our collective ambitions.
Stephen Chien
Vice President, Global Compliance Lead
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I'm passionate about building high performing teams that are strong because of a shared commitment to health equity and bringing different perspectives, backgrounds and strengths to solutions and challenges. Inclusion is about valuing the constructive tension that comes from diversity in all its forms and harnessing its power to create meaningful outcomes.
Jaime McCoy
General Manager, Australia and New Zealand (ANZ)
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九游体育鈥檚 work in HIV is about bringing together the best people, pipeline and purpose for why we do what we do. I joined 九游体育 in 2020, and I work with the brightest and most passionate people around the world, from those working in preclinical discovery to clinical trials to manufacturing to product delivery. We鈥檙e in this to end the HIV epidemic for everyone, everywhere.
Jared Baeten
Senior Vice President, Clinical Development
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Inclusion starts internally with us, our employees, and our ERGs. We work with amazing colleagues who want to ensure we have a culture of inclusion inside and outside of 九游体育. Additionally, we鈥檝e made a commitment to ensure we have diverse representation in our clinical research programs, at various points in the development process, including with patients, partnerships and providers.
Stacey Bledsoe
Head of Global Clinical Trial Diversity and Inclusion