Annual Report 2022 - Engaging Great People

Our commitments:  

• Employ 33% female leaders by 2022 and ensure a minimum of 50% female candidates at first round interviews 

• Target 95%+ of employees to have development plans 

• Drive top quartile employee engagement 

• Ensure all employees and their families have 24/7 support via Employee Assistance Programme 

Edrington aims to cultivate an inclusive environment that celebrates diversity of thought and enables everyone to make meaningful contributions. To achieve an inclusive and high-performance culture we have introduced progressive initiatives and policies focussing on diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I), development of our great people, engagement and wellbeing. 

Diversity & Inclusion  

Over the past five years, we have made consistent progress on gender DE&I, through targets and a clear action plan. We now have 37% female leaders in the business, which exceeds our target of 33% by 2022. We continue to make progress towards our recruitment target of having 50% female candidates for every first-round interview (currently 46%) and we have narrowed our gender pay gap in the UK.

To support the widening our DE&I agenda, we revised our strategy last year and now have a comprehensive plan which focuses on three areas: culture and engagement; awareness and education; and impactful interventions. We have DE&I focal points for each business unit and region, who along with the chairs of our employee network Balance, form our global DE&I working group.

Development 

Developing our people by building the skills and capabilities needed to deliver our vision is a key area of our business strategy, which is supported by focused development plans for each employee.

We continued to build on the online Edrington Academy offering through learning sprints, pathways, and skill frameworks in key areas such as Marketing, DE&I, and Cybersecurity. We also delivered a successful Learning at Work festival with around 150 learning sessions delivered.

Employee Engagement  

The Group increased its global engagement score by 1% to 74% in our recent employee survey. This is an excellent result and is a testament to our teams across the business who successfully implemented their action plans following the previous survey in February 2020.

Wellbeing  

We continue to actively promote our Employee Assistance Programme which all employees and their immediate families can access to get support when they need it. Many of our employees benefited from the resources and counselling sessions available through this service last year.

Our wellbeing activities focused on building resilience last year which was particularly important as we continued to live with the challenges of the pandemic.

Explore our four focus areas below and download the Sustainability & Responsibility Report for more detail.