• Firmly committed to maintaining a comprehensive human talent function that addresses attracting, selecting, developing and retaining its employees, SURA ranked first in its sector and sixth in the overall ranking of Merco Talento 2024.
• With this result, SURA completes a decade of being placed among the ten best organizations to work for in the country.
• The SURA Business Group brings together a team of more than 29 thousand employees in companies such as Grupo SURA, SURA Asset Management, Suramericana, along with their subsidiaries in Latin America.
• SURA's Human Resources team was also recognized as the fourth best in the country. 

This past Wednesday, Merco Colombia published the results of the 2024 edition of its Merco Talent ranking, in which SURA was recognized as the best insurer and the sixth best organization to work for in Colombia. This completes ten consecutive years figuring among the ten most outstanding companies in the country in this area and fifteen years of being included in this ranking. This recognition reflects the Company’s commitment to upholding a comprehensive human talent function based on an organizational culture that promotes well-being, diversity and inclusion, while at the same time building sound relationships and creating added value.

"This recognition provides us with further reasons to continue working towards a more comprehensive development of our human talent. We are convinced that SURA is a brand that is built day after day by teams of staff who place themselves wholeheartedly at the service of millions of people. This difference is made by our employees and together we  bring to life the principles that inspire our work. The fact that it is our human talent that qualifies this ranking is even more valuable," stated Luz Marina Velásquez, Chief Human Resource Officer at Seguros SURA Colombia.

Highlights of our human talent function among our SURA Companies

The comprehensive management of our human talent, which is a purpose as well as a commitment driving the materialization of our strategy at all of our SURA Companies, is approached from different fronts, among which the following stand out: promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), developing individuals and their potential, attracting and retaining our human talent and safeguarding their comprehensive wellness. The latter is one of the differentiating factors of our Business Group, in the form of a broad range of maternity and paternity benefits and best practices, in addition to preventing workplace harassment, the right to disconnect from work as well as mental health care.

The following are some of the measures that underpin SURA's recognition as part of the Merco Talento 2024 ranking. 

Grupo SURA. In understanding its human talent, Grupo SURA places special emphasis on its employees as being at the heart of our strategy and, based on our own cultural, reputational and psychosocial risk studies, the Company has made their comprehensive wellness the main objective of its human talent function, thereby  balancing mental health with physical health. Grupo SURA also upholds a competitive remuneration policy that combines fixed compensation, benefits and short- and long-term incentives for its employees. It also promotes individual development through strategies such as annual competency metrics, leader performance evaluations, and training courses carried out in alliance with entities such as the EGADE Business School attached to the Tecnológico de Monterrey as well as the Universidad Eafit. To conclude we also have a policy in place for preventing  Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, along with strategies for mental health care and flexible working practices.

Sura Asset Management In the case of SURA Asset Management and its subsidiaries throughout Latin America, their performance in 2023 focused on proactively incorporating practices that strengthen diversity, equity and inclusion as competitive advantages for the Company. To this end, anti-bias training was provided, the Company´s Inclusive Communications Guide was drawn up and the consolidation of safe work environments was encouraged. Also in 2023, the Company evaluated the performance of 96.5% of its employees drilling further down into issues such as organizational climate, talent development, remuneration plans, among others. 

Suramericana This Company made progress in analyzing its salary gap, with the intention of identifying possible disparities to ensure a fair salary structure while deploying measures in taking a comprehensive approach that encompasses various talent management processes. One of Suramericana's priorities is leadership training. On this front, the more important initiatives included the regional program "Transformarnos para transformar" (Transforming ourselves to transform) aimed at strengthening the capabilities of current and potential leaders, the structuring of development plans, the creation of talent maps, the development of prioritized knowledge on a local and regional level, and finally, the "Modelo de identificación de líderes referentes" (Model for identifying key leaders), in order to optimize the performance and motivation of its employees. 

Seguros SURA Colombia This year, Suramericana's subsidiary in Colombia made progress in consolidating programs to attract young talent, which allowed, among other things, the hiring of almost 90 young people after completing their internships, thereby promoting intergenerational dialogue as part of a diverse working environment. In addition, the Company actively participated in 31 employability fairs and events, offering university internships or apprenticeships for 656 people aspiring to take on technological, digital, financial and actuarial roles. As a result, this Company  was recognized in 2023 as one of the 20 best companies for young professionals as part of the "Employers for Youth - Colombia" ranking.

Human Talent Indicators - the SURA Business Group.

• At the end of 2023, Grupo Empresarial SURA had a total of 29,474 employees on a corporate level that is to say: Grupo SURA, SURA Asset Management and Suramericana, as well as its subsidiaries in Latin America.
• In 2023, the SURA Business Group recorded 5,840 new hires, of which 63% were women. Overall, 66.4% of SURA Companies' employees in the region are women, occupying 55.6% of leadership positions and 55.5% of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) positions.
• In 2023, more than 27,000 employees participated in performance evaluations to promote the development of knowledge and skills.
• Together, Grupo SURA, Suramericana and SURA Asset Management invested USD 4 million in employee training in 2023.
• The Company’s Wellbeing Survey was conducted in 2023, on the perceptions of more than 17 thousand employees of the SURA companies throughout Latin America and which produced a wellbeing score of 92 out of a total of 100.
• In 2023, the voluntary turnover rate decreased to 7%, marking the fourth consecutive year in single digits. 

Companies belonging to Grupo SURA's investment portfolio and their  Merco Talento rankings
In addition to SURA's performance in this year's general ranking, other companies that form part of Grupo SURA's investment portfolio have also made important headway: Bancolombia came in second in the overall ranking and leads in the financial sector; whereas, Protección, on the other hand, ranked first among pension and severance funds. Likewise, in terms of its industrial investments, Cementos Argos and Celsia, subsidiaries of Grupo Argos, ranked in 19th and 24th place respectively.