British American Tobacco Australia - Career development

Our leadership teams the world over demonstrate our commitment to promoting and developing the very best people, wherever they are from.

As you’d expect from a leading global business, we offer highly competitive rewards for success, invest heavily in training and development and offer truly international career opportunities.

Our talent strategy aims to create a legacy of leaders. We focus on driving high performance and the development of leadership capabilities to help our people realise their full potential.

Our 8 leadership capabilities underpin how we expect our Leaders to  inspire  our people to deliver outstanding results. Our Learning & Development Portfolio is built upon developing and nurturing these capabilities and they form part of our Performance review process.

In addition to our Learning & Development portfolio we provide the right job experiences, and opportunities to learn from others as we believe in the 70:20:10 model of development:

• 70% on the job learning;
• 20% learning through others; and
• 10% through structured learning. 

We place a lot of emphasis on creating a coaching culture, as we believe that training and development should take place as close as possible to the work being done. We also think that coaching is the right way to develop leaders at all levels, to share knowledge and to build better business solutions.

Performance management

Our performance management system is designed to support employees’ regular performance reviews, helping them track their performance against individual goals and their contribution to the Group’s values, strategy and ambitions.

It encourages employees and managers to think about performance management throughout the year, not only at the start and end of the annual cycle. Using a streamlined and logical approach to objective setting and assessment helps differentiate more clearly between those who are falling short, those who are meeting their goals and those whose performance is genuinely outstanding.