Kia UK has been named within the 2023 Finest Workplaces for Ladies checklist by Nice Place to Work.

The corporate has its personal ladies’s community and is an energetic member of the Automotive 30% Membership, an organisation encouraging motor trade corporations to place ladies in additional key management positions.

Just lately Kia UK has additionally partnered with Shifting Forward on Inclusive Management coaching for all workers in addition to a cross firm mentoring programme to advance office variety, fairness and inclusion.

Supporting ladies within the office, Kia UK has not too long ago launched the supply of Ladies in Management apprenticeships to foster expertise and unlock potential, in addition to menopause help by way of the specialist app, Peppy.

Kia UK mentioned it’s is dedicated to creating an inclusive working surroundings and is regularly updating its inclusion plan and recruitment practices, with initiatives to help workers.

Moreover, Kia UK workers profit from a newly up to date, enhanced household depart coverage with transition help via teaching, and each formal and casual versatile working.

Gemma Benbow, director of individuals & organisation at Kia UK, mentioned: “The individuals employed by this firm are its biggest asset and that is implausible recognition of the exhausting work we at Kia put into encouraging a various and inclusive tradition.

“There have been some optimistic steps in direction of equalising the gender imbalance recognized within the automotive trade and Kia is proud to prepared the ground to making sure its future is truthful and open to all. We imagine that variety drives higher buyer experiences, higher merchandise and due to this fact higher enterprise.”

Benbow hopes that Kia’s inclusion within the Finest Office for Ladies checklist will servce as encouragement to all ladies to get into automotive.

She added: “Kia is a frontrunner in electrification and with the final trade transfer in direction of a future that’s powered by clear vitality, there has by no means been a extra thrilling time to be a part of this trade.”

The Finest Office for Ladies rating follows Kia UK being named a Nice Place to Work in Could this yr, which was subsequently adopted by 13 European-based Kia headquarters additionally being named as a Nice Place to Work.

In March, the brand new Kia Niro gained the ‘World’s Finest Automotive for 2023’ and supreme winner accolade on the 2023 Ladies’s World Automotive of the 12 months (WWCOTY).

On the identical day, Kia UK celebrated Worldwide Ladies’s Day 2023 (IWD23) by holding a companywide occasion targeted round this yr’s #EmbraceEquity theme alongside the corporate’s ongoing directive to advertise inclusive management, elevate consciousness about discrimination and drive gender parity.