Investing in
our people
We recognise that our people
are fundamental to our success.
Our ambition is to make sure that
everyone has the time and
opportunity for development.
We pride ourselves on having a
community focused on development
where everyone can be successful.
Investing in and supporting our talent
Our ambition is to make sure that everyone has the time
and opportunity for development at Auto Trader. We support
this through personal development plans and opportunities,
coaching and mentoring, structured programmes and self-learning.
We underpin this through our cultural and inclusive initiatives,
including values-based training, inclusive leadership and an
inclusive talent development programme.
Our learning academy is the platform that provides a range of learning opportunities for all employees (including part-time and contractors). We provide sponsorship for professional qualifications and access to continuing professional development for our people. Mandatory training covers our compliance essentials to ensure compliance with our legislative and regulatory requirements. Our non-mandatory training covers a broad range of learning and development that provide role-specific technical skills and soft skills that support being successful at Auto Trader. Our mentoring and coaching programmes are available to all employees and we continue to build internal coaching, mentoring and sponsorship capability.
Engaging our employees
We welcome open and honest feedback from our employees and surveys are conducted on a regular basis. We aim to understand
job satisfaction, measure opinion and find where changes may
be necessary.
97%
Employee engagement
Pay gap reporting
Our fifth combined Gender and Ethnicity Pay Gap Report (published in November 2024, reporting the pay gap as at 5 April 2024) details our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive work community that enhances our culture.
This year, we continue to make positive steps in reducing both our median and mean pay gaps with our median reducing by 0.7% and our mean by 0.2%. We’ve done this by focusing on three key areas: hiring, retaining and developing employees. Overall, we have increased our women hires, with 52% of all new starters being women within the last 12 months – a 6% increase year-on-year. We are pleased to have achieved our goal of reaching an equal gender split across our recruitment campaigns. We do however recognise that there is still work to do here, specifically maintaining that equal representation when hiring into senior roles.
We are performing well in retaining women in the upper quartiles, with only 15% of leavers coming from this group, compared to 53% for men. This year, we have further strengthened our maternity and family leave policies to provide even greater support for women and families throughout their careers. We also introduced our company funded Menopause Plan which provides personalised support for employees struggling to manage their symptoms. We believe these enhancements will further boost our retention of women in the future.
Degree apprenticeship programme
Being on the degree apprenticeship programme has meant I can study for a degree at the same time as working towards becoming an experienced UX designer.
Eniya Ali
Product Design Apprentice
Wellbeing and safety of our employees
We are committed to supporting our employees in all aspects of their health and wellbeing. We provide a comprehensive range of healthcare benefits as well as access to tools and education, mental health support and supportive pathways to empower our employees to have more good days.
We provide access to tools and resources to support employees with their financial wellbeing. A Group personal pension plan is offered to all employees, under which they can contribute between 3% and 5% (or higher) of their salary and Auto Trader contributes between 5% and 7%. All employees can join the Group’s Save As You Earn scheme, with 563 of our employees participating in at least one of the current schemes.
In September 2023 we announced an all-employee share award that rewards employees with an extra 10% of their salary in shares each year, vesting over a three-year period. This builds on our already strong ownership culture and aligns our people with our shareholders.
Our principal objective is to prevent or minimise accidents, injury and ill health to staff, contractors and others, who work at or visit our premises. We have a fully compliant Health and Safety Policy and appropriate insurance for all employees. We can report that we have had no fatalities or serious injuries during the year, and there was no impact to our operations due to work-related incidents or work-related occupational disease.
Following the introduction of our Connected Working approach, we remain committed to our people’s health and wellbeing. To support our colleagues we make sure that their workstations are safe by completing a risk assessment of both office and home-based workstations and environments.
Roadmap: sharing stories
& experiences
In 2023, we launched Roadmap, a platform for people at Auto Trader and beyond to share their stories of building products and have lively conversations about what they're genuinely passionate about.
In this episode, Pete chats to Polly & David about their journey from joining Auto Trader as engineering & sales graduates in the early 2010s, all the way through to being senior product managers today.
Diversity & inclusion
We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work community that enhances our culture and improves our business through our ability to attract, identify and develop talent.
Read MoreMaking a positive impact
Our Auto Trader Community shapes our culture and we are committed to making a difference and having a positive impact on the communities we operate in.
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