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Employers empowering women

Company culture can make or break career opportunities, which is why we’re celebrating the top large employers for women in the US, as identified by Fortune and Great Place to Work

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Hilton Pinnacle Financial Partners

As one of the world’s fastest-growing hospitality companies, Hilton has been awarded the number one place for women to work. With over 150,000 female employees, Hilton has prioritised cultivating a culture that encourages women to thrive, while promoting a healthy work-life balance. Employees say: “I believe the biggest driving factor of our awesome work environment is that everyone is truly embraced for who they are, the season of life they are in, and what their goals are.”

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By promoting women from within the company, Pinnacle Financial Partners has created an environment that ensures women from a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives have the opportunities to thrive. “The amount of trust they have in their employees to do the right thing and execute on a professional level is so refreshing,” employees say. “Pinnacle Financial Partners allows me to be a mum first and an employee second, which is incredible.”

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Cisco American Express

Technology giant Cisco looks to attract, develop, retain and celebrate talented women throughout their Women of Cisco global community. The company also has the Women Rock IT programme, which provides informative, educational programming throughout the year so that women can connect, thrive, and reach their full potential. The content gives insight into the future of IT and the expansive career opportunities that technology can offer.

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With women making up more than half of their global network, American Express has become a leading employer committed to supporting the advancement of women. To do so, the company actively promotes the growth of female employees, providing the sponsorship, tools and resources needed to succeed. They also hold the bi-annual Global Women’s Conference, which unites male and female allies from across the globe to discuss ambition, leadership and company culture.

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Comcast NBCUniversal CIENCE

Two decades ago, news and television entertainment network Comcast launched initiatives to identify and cultivate diverse talent in the media industry. Now, it offers the industry’s widest range of programmes designed to build a diverse pipeline of talent, while elevating women. One example is the Female Forward initiative, which provides female directors with an entry into scripted television and gives the opportunity to shadow current directors on up to two episodes of an NBC series.

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A survey found that 97% of CIENCE employees felt that the company was a great place to work, exceeding the 57% average of other companies in the US. “I had never worked for a company that seems to genuinely care about its employees,” employees say. “My child has had a string of illnesses and I was afraid I would lose my job because of the number of absences. Instead, I have had so much support and care given to me that I cannot even explain the difference it has made.”

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Slalom White Glove Community Care

With an employee resource group, named Slalom Women, Slalom has emerged as a leading company that connects, elevates, and celebrates women to enable equitable voices to be shared throughout the business. Slalom Women provides a number of resources to help empower women – including technical certification training, mentorship programmes and book clubs – to help everyone reach their full potential and to shape the future.

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Providing quality care across New York, New Jersey, and Florida, White Glove Community Care has been named as the eighth best employers for women. Of the company's 6,000 employees 80% are women, meaning 73.3% of non-executive managers and 80% of executive managers are women. “White Glove allows you to have the flexibility of obtaining a work-life balance,” employees say. “Everyone that is involved clinically has been very respectful.”

THE WORLD HAS CHANGED. HAVE YOU?

Is it time to rethink how procurement delivers on your organization’s objectives? The world’s leading businesses trust Proxima.

Accelerating purposeful and profitable change

PURPOSEFUL AND PROFITABLE CHANGE WITH PROXIMA

Proxima COO, Dan Collings discusses how suppliers are now finally being see as the “external enterprise” and why it is now or never for procurement

Whilst the current economic environment is challenging, even today there is enormous value to be had in spending wisely and well. “Around seventy percent of company spend is on supply,’’ says Dan

Collings, COO of Procurement and Supply

Chain Consultancy Proxima. ‘Getting that spending right is a valuable differentiator for businesses in the good but especially in the not so good times. It is more critical than ever to ensure that suppliers are perfectly aligned to the rhythm of a business, and that every cent is working in pursuit of objectives”.

“And objectives evolve”, adds Collings. “Early in my career, nearly every client was asking us to focus on driving savings, something that we still excel at. Today, the definition of value can be much broader, aligned to the realization that suppliers are the ‘external enterprise’. Whether it’s a question of cost, risk, resilience, ESG or innovation, invariably supplier networks are part of the answer”.

Walgreens is a perfect example of how Proxima partners with businesses, and ambitious CPOs. “We want to help CPOs to put procurement at the heart of driving profitable and purposeful change. With Walgreens this means helping them to achieve ambitious financial targets while at the same time supporting the transformation of procurement”.

“We were originally involved in assessing Walgreen’s property portfolio - everything from signage to snow clearing to the dayto-day operations of a Walgreens store. We are now into year seven of our partnership, and it’s one that we deeply value, based on trust and results delivery. What started in property now extends across a significant breadth of procurement and supply chain topics including sourcing, complex transformation and the deployment of deep subject matter expertise”.

And what of savings, are these a thing of the past? “Absolutely not, although perhaps today the job of procurement is more ‘Commercial Architects’ than savings chaser. There is still enormous financial value to be had in most organizations, if you know where to look”.

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A CA D EMY EVERY GIRL NEEDS A BIG SISTER

As young girls age, their participation in sport and exercise drops. To combat this, the charity Women in Sport has teamed up with Places Leisure, Places for People and Hey Girls to launch the Big Sister Project to help girls get active and build confidence in sport

EVERY GIRL NEEDS A BIG SISTER

Shereen Charles

Project Administration Officer, Women in Sport

xercise is Mother Nature’s miracle cure. We’re all raised to learn and understand the plethora of benefits that exercise brings, but, sadly, over a million teenage girls disengage from sports after primary school, according to research from Women in Sport.

Complex and deep-rooted negative beliefs around periods, body image and self-belief are affecting girls’ enjoyment of sport and exercise, with 50% of girls lacking the self-belief to participate and 45% sharing that they don’t feel like they have the right body type.

How is the Big Sister Project changing this?

The Big Sister Project has one main mission: to help teenage girls reclaim the joy of sport and exercise during puberty. To do so, free projects have been offered to girls in four areas across the UK that have been identified as deprived communities: Norwich, Norfolk; Amber Valley, Derbyshire; and Sheffield and Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

Our main goal is to give girls the opportunity to get involved with sports and activities

SHEREEN CHARLES

“Our main goal is to break down the barriers so girls aged between 9 and 15 can live happy, healthy and fulfilling lives on and off the sports fields,” says Shereen Charles, Project Administration Officer at Women in Sport. “Our programme gives girls the opportunity to get involved with sports and activities, whether that’s playing football, netball or rugby, or going to the gym,”

What are the main issues tackled?

The Big Sister Project works with real girls who face several issues growing up

– especially during puberty. Although research has identified that girls face a disconnect from sport as they grow up, the project aims to revive the various benefits that exercising can bring.

“When I was going through puberty, sport was a relief for me,” Shereen says. “It was such a positive experience because it was social, fun and it felt safe; I was training with girls who were going through the same experiences as me.

“But when I think about the wider network – parents and teachers, for example – I realise that it wasn’t that open. It would have been really useful to have a ‘big sister’ to talk to about the changes and challenges that I was facing, as they affect most girls in one way or another.”

The Big Sister Project welcomes a wide range of girls, supporting them with health and confidence-related issues, including period concerns, changes in the body or having low self-esteem. “The projects attracted girls who are seeking support on a variety of different issues, as well as those who want to actually get involved to be an ambassador for others,” Shereen says. “We’ve definitely seen a need for the project, so we’re really looking forward to the future and hopefully expanding to other areas.

“We’ve all been through puberty, and lots of other young girls are going through puberty, too, with similar experiences, so hopefully the Big Sister Project can be a marker board for them to follow going forward.

To find out more about The Big Sister Project visit their website. Or, donate to the amazing Women in Sport here.