Careers

The mental, financial and physical wellbeing of our colleagues is always our first priority. That’s why we’re working hard to make sure that wellbeing in the workplace is a big part of our culture. Because everyone has a part to play in keeping us all engaged, healthy, happy and feeling rewarded.

We’ve lots of family friendly policies which provide support for our people through life changes, including enhanced Maternity & Adoption, Paternity, Bereavement, Dependents and Emergency leave to support colleagues when they need it most.

We also have a range of benefits built to suit everyone. Because we’re all different. That’s why we’ve put a lot of effort into creating a wide range of financial, lifestyle and health benefits to suit everyone, whatever stage of life they’re in, including:

We’ve invested in a number of support tools, initiatives and benefits to empower our colleagues to take control of their own needs and to access the support they want, including:

• EAP: A funded, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) offering:
  • Help@hand.
  • Remote GP; Second Opinion; Mental Health Support; Physiotherapy Support; Life, Money & Wellbeing Support.
  • Cancer assist – offers in-the-moment cancer guidance.
• Flexible Life Assurance, allowing colleagues to increase cover to 10x salary
• BUPA Dental Plans & Westfield Health Cash plans, even free flu jabs ahead of the winter months!
• GymFlex membership schemes offering discounts of up to 40% across over 3,300 sites nationwide.
• Improved Family Friendly policies.

We’ve made positive changes to our Family Friendly policies too, ensuring our colleagues have clearer (and better) support through life changes, with increases in our Maternity & Adoption, Paternity, Bereavement, Dependants and Emergency leave entitlements to ensure that colleagues can put themselves and their families first, when the time comes.

There is work still to do but we make a commitment to all colleagues to consistently seek to improve our ability and increase our capacity to support colleagues, both physically and mentally, by putting more of the right tools in place.

Our colleagues tell us they’re proud to be part of ZIGUP and take huge pride in the invaluable help and support they provide to their customers.

They give their all for our customers and each other. So, it’s important to us that everyone feels valued for playing their part. That’s why our rewards go far beyond a competitive salary. Some of our most popular rewards and benefits include:

• Above National Living Wage Minimum Pay Rates: We recognise the contribution of all of our colleagues – colleagues receive a market-competitive salary reflecting the role that they do, with a minimum pay rate above the National Living wage.
• Free Life Assurance: All Colleagues enjoy the peace of mind of free Life Assurance cover (2x annual salary), paid to nominated beneficiaries should the worst happen.
• Save As You Earn: We want everyone to benefit from our success – our SAYE scheme allows colleagues to put money aside to buy shares in ZIGUP at a discounted rate.
• Contributory Pension Scheme: helping our colleagues save for the future.
• Car Leasing Scheme: Colleagues can take advantage of either a Salary Sacrifice of PCH vehicle schemes, with the business sharing the benefit of our position in the market – the scheme particularly aims to help colleagues choosing hybrid or EV vehicles as part of our ESG strategy.
• Exclusive Discounts: Colleagues enjoy access to hundreds of unlimited special discounts and savings on a huge range of products through our Benefits HUB Extra App.

We know it’s our talented colleagues who really make us the success we are, and we are committed to continuing to continue to invest in their skills and potential.

• Proven induction plan: Every role at ZIGUP comes with the possibility to learn and grow. Of course, the type of training and development opportunities we provide, will be guided by the role. What we do guarantee, is a proven induction plan to help colleagues make the most of their role and a personalised development plan that offers every opportunity to gain experience and learn new skills.
• Learning Academy: Through our online Learning Academy and on-the-job mentoring, the learning we offer is continuous – our businesses operate in ever-changing marketplaces, so we do all we can to ensure colleagues have the skills, knowledge and expertise to stay at the top of their game.
• Culture of progression: All of our businesses have a well-established culture of progression, with many of our current leadership community having progressed through our organisation. Alongside those roles with a more traditional career path to follow, there can be flexibility in the way we can help colleagues to develop a less ‘formal’ route, with potential for lateral moves into other businesses, specialisms and skillsets too.
• Introduction to Management Programme: If you see yourself as leader, our Introduction to Management Programme can really help you make the step too.
• ‘Early Talent’ team: Through our dedicated ‘Early Talent’ team, we’re prioritising investment in our future experts, developing a growing community of apprentices in a whole host of sectors from automotive technicians, to finance and IT, through to specialist insurance and customer services programmes.