Women’s Inclusive Network at Sopra Steria

Founded by Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley in the 1960s, we have always been advocates of gender balance and supporting women to reach their full potential. In fact, our Women’s Inclusive Network (WIN) is dedicated to the cause and encourages everyone to get involved, no matter the gender they identify as.

Improving female representation is a key pillar of our diversity and inclusion strategy. We are committed to ensuring greater diversity in recruitment and selection, doing more to nurture and grow our existing talent pool and promote an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive. 

Ranked in Great Place to Work’s® UK's Best Workplaces™ for Women, we remain committed to reducing the gender pay gap, improving gender balance at all levels and offering a workplace where colleagues are valued as individuals and where everyone has the opportunity to reach their full potential.

Here are some of the things we do at Sopra Steria to support this:

• We offer a Female Mentoring programme and are committed to provide mentoring support to any interested female colleague, either through a one-to-one mentoring relationship or through a mentoring circle. As part of this programme, colleagues are either mentored internally or as part of the 30% Club Cross-Company Mentoring programme
• We aim to significantly improve the number of women at middle and senior levels across our UK businesses. Our six-month Women in Leadership talent programme supports women develop a wide range of skills, as well as the mindset and confidence to progress their careers into leadership
• We are very open to flexible working and encourage discussions on flexible working arrangements for any of our advertised roles
• We offer enhanced maternity and adoption pay and have extended our paid carers and compassionate leave
• We have signed the Menopause Workplace Pledge and introduced guidance and support for anyone experiencing menopausal symptoms at work. An internal Menopause Support Community has been created to share personal experiences and tips with peers. Our people are also able to use the Peppy app to access free advice and resources from healthcare professionals on the topics of menopause, fertility and new baby
• We have a very active Women’s Inclusive Network (WIN), offering a safe space to build relationships, expand professional networks and be inspired by colleagues. WIN also works closely with the Company leadership to support diversity initiatives and strengthen engagement with female colleagues
• We are signatories of the Tech Talent Charter and participate in annual research to drive greater gender inclusion in technology roles across the industry
• All leaders, managers and colleagues at Sopra Steria must commit to our Zero Tolerance Pledge, to work together to address bullying, offensive and insensitive behaviour of any kind. This pledge includes mandatory training for all employees on equality, diversity and bullying and harassment

Did you know?

We run Women’s Coaching Cafés to provide a confidential forum to obtain career, developmental and networking support.