Gah gets a stint in Ho Chi Min City

The National Weekender

‘Passion to win’ is a motto that SP Brewery’s public relations executive, Nancy Gah aims to drive when she returns to the Port Moresby SP Brewery office following her two-month stint with Heineken Vietnam (HV).
Gah was part of Heineken’s Asia Pacific Accelerate Your Talent programme on a short term assignment from July 23 to Sept 21, 2018.
She was also privileged to have been a part of an inauguration ceremony held on Sept in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to witness the crowning of the best companies to work for in Asia.
Coincidently, HV was honored with an award as one of the best companies in Asia to work with by the HR Asia, one of Asia’s leading publications for HR professionals.
Gah says HV employees value their motto with so much commitment in ensuring the company achieves its goals and priorities in order to “brew a better Vietnam.”
“The experience thus far is mind blowing and the biggest takeaway for me is the people’s passion to win,” said Gah. “HV is a much bigger company than SP Brewery and it has over a thousand employees across six breweries in Vietnam.”
Like many other employees who work overseas, short term assignments are a great way to experience different cultures and also learn different ways of working.
“It was an amazing journey both at work and learning about the people and the Vietnamese culture,” said Gah.
Whilst in Vietnam, Gah was involved in several projects within the internal and external communications of HV.
Gah said that she had learnt a lot and the biggest learning experience whilst carrying out her external communications assignment was HV’s ‘When You Drive, Never Drink Campaign’ that was launched in July and the opportunity to work with the HV’s human resource department for the HR Asia Award.
“I am so privileged to have been part of the event and I would like to take this time to congratulate HV again for winning the 2018 HR Asia Awards,” said Gah.
SP Brewery’s integration into the Heineken’s new ways of working improves its efficiency and production capacities in ensuring that SPB remains the leading brewer in the South Pacific region.
The STA programme provides SPB staff the chance to enhance their skills and knowledge and add value to both their host company and home company.
So far SP Brewery has sent seven of its staff members (which include Gah) on STA programmes overseas with other Heineken companies within the Asia Pacific region.
These SPB employees are Lawrence Acanufa – senior brand manager SP Lager who did his STA with Heineken Malaysia Berhad, Bede Eka – base logistics lead did his with the Solomon Breweries in the Solomon Islands, Lisa Kopi – brewing manager Port Moresby did hers with the Asia Pacific Breweries in Singapore, Christian Bonga – sales manager off trade and Allan Kwarara – key accounts manager Commercial Department did their STA programmes with Heineken Timor-Leste in Dili, Justly Sam – TPM coordinator Lae did his STA with Heineken Lanka, and Gah – public relations executive for SPB who did her assignment with Heineken Vietnam.
Two more SPB employees are due for their STA programmes this year and they are Arthur Baiwan – production project manager who is due for his two months stint in Mozambique from Oct 22 to Dec 20 and Mathilda Maimbo – packaging supervisor for the Port Moresby Brewery who will be heading to Sri Lanka in November to do her STA with the Heineken Lanka Brewery for six months from Nov 1, 2018 to April 30, 2019.
SP Brewery is proud to have its employees in the STA programme because developing human resource is important for the company. As part of a global company, technology and communication is fast evolving and impacting on business, SP Brewery is committed in continuing to upskill its employees in brewing success.
The Heineken Boost (Building Our Own Sustainable Talent – Pool) programme enables talents within the region to play in the global arena.
Accelerate Your Talent is a short team assignment programme designed under the BOoost programme to attract, develop and retain Heineken employees in the Asia Pacific region.

  • Story and picture by SP Brewery Ltd