About Beaverbrooks

Beaverbrooks the Jewellers is an award winning family-owned jewellers with stores across the UK, providing exceptional quality diamonds, jewellery and watches. The retailer recently celebrated its centenary year and is still owned by the founding family.

Beaverbrooks is an open and honest company, so it's important to them to communicate key business decisions and the rationale to all its employees. The retailer believes that happy, driven and accountable colleagues go hand-in-hand with strong financial performance and believe transparency is key.

The business understands the importance of having both proactive and reactive tools in place to help ease any type of stress. All colleagues have regular 1-2-1s; this is private, quality time with a member of the management team to discuss anything personal or work related. These discussions also help the individual identify coping methods or ways to alleviate stress.

Beaverbrooks operates a culture of achievement, setting colleagues up to succeed and celebrating success together. The business believes that a balance of recognition and financial reward is important in motivating teams and has a variety of rewards in place. Beaverbrooks pays bonuses based on the business growing; Sales Consultants and management teams in stores are rewarded when they hit sales targets and office teams are rewarded when the business grows in profit.

The Primary Purpose at Beaverbrooks is to enrich lives, this purpose is set out in a document called 'The Beaverbrooks Way', which defines how things are done at the business. This is a company ethos by which all decisions are made and everyone within the business works within.

What is it like to work for Beaverbrooks

Leadership

97% of staff agreed:

This organisation is run on strong values / principles

Beaverbrooks’ managing director has a people-centric leadership style and firmly believes that a collaborative and inclusive culture is key to business success. They operate an open-door policy and host 12 Focus Groups each year where they bring together groups of colleagues from across the business.

97% of staff agreed:

This organisation is run on strong values / principles

My Manager

90% of staff agreed:

My manager cares about me as an individual

Beaverbrooks pride themselves on promoting managers internally. To support this, they have developed two internal programmes: one for store colleagues and a newly introduced programme for office colleagues. There is a structured application process to follow before securing a place on the programme and ultimately the trainees senior manager must endorse their application.

90% of staff agreed:

My manager cares about me as an individual

Giving Something Back

99% of staff agreed:

My organisation encourages charitable activities

Beaverbrooks purpose is Enriching Lives; a major focus recently which has been supporting their core behaviour “we give time, expertise & money to our communities & the wider world”. Every penny raised by colleagues for charity is match funded from The Beaverbrooks Charitable Trust. In Beaverbrooks’ centenary year they are ‘double matching’ which means charities will receive three times the original donation.

99% of staff agreed:

My organisation encourages charitable activities

Learn more about the 8 factors of workplace engagement here

Benefits:

Holidays

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Gym

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Pensions

Companies offering a final salary scheme to all employees, or one in which the employer's contribution is at least 5%
Long Service

40% of employees have more than 5 years' service