Shortlist
2024
Best apprenticeship scheme
Boeing
With the global aerospace industry facing a shortage of skilled aviation professionals, and a predicted need for more than 700,000 maintenance technicians worldwide by 2035, Boeing knew it had to develop a pipeline of highly skilled technicians to meet the increasing demand for services and plug the skills gap. The result is the “impre...
British Airways
Defence Equipment and Support
LABC - Local Authority Building Control
Mitie
Best change management initiative
Bank of Ireland
In 2022, the Bank of Ireland completely reimagined and redesigned its performance management approach, delivering significant cultural change for 10,000 employees in a way described as “brave” and “a leading example of good practice in performance management conversations” by the PMAs judges. Before the Thrive initiative was developed ...
ClickTech Solutions
Health Education Improvement Wales with Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Mitie
Norican Group
npower Business Solutions powered by E.ON
Tesco Bank
Best CSR/ESG initiative
Bellway
Millennium and Copthorne Hotels
MONY Group
The PMAs judges hailed the Moneysupermarket.com Group (MSMG) a “worthy winner of a very competitive category” thanks to its partnership with suicide-prevention charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (Calm).The partnership began in 2022, when 46 per cent of MSMG staff voted to partner the charity. Initially a two-year collaboration, ...
Navigator Gas
SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK
Best digital/technology initiative in HR/L&D
Bank of Ireland
In 2021, the Bank of Ireland’s (BOI) annual employee engagement survey found that less than half of colleagues (44 per cent) felt they were provided with the resources and opportunities to develop the skills they needed to thrive in a digital environment. The organisation recognised that a lack of data-led insights in areas such as car...
KPMG UK
Sonova AG
Starbucks & Attensi
Texthelp
Vodafone Group
Best employee experience initiative
Centrick
Elis UK
The Covid-19 pandemic hit rental and laundry company Elis UK, whose customer base spans the hospitality, workwear and healthcare sectors, hard. Some employees were furloughed due to a significant fall in customer activity and, while the organisation “believed we were supportive, we didn’t know for certain how employees were feeling”. T...
Equiniti
npower Business Solutions powered by E.ON
UK Health Security Agency - Health Protection Operations Group
Wigan & Leigh College
Best equality, diversity and inclusion initiative (EDI)
Care Quality Commission
HSBC with VIVIDA
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
MONY Group
Murphy
This holistic EDI programme was lauded by the judges as having an “excellent alignment of objectives, initiatives, annual targets and measurements to strategic goals”. J Murphy and Sons’ People and Social Value Strategy was born out of a skills shortage in the construction and engineering sector, and the civil engineering company’s aim...
Transport for Wales
Best flexible working initiative
BDO UK
Domestic & General
Phoenix Group
Phoenix Group, a long-term savings and retirement business, sees its approach to flexible working – termed Phoenix Flex – as a “key enabler to our purpose and cultural ambitions”. As a business, it hopes to “help people secure a life of possibilities” and wanted to reflect this when developing its flexible working offering post-pandemi...
Sea Salt Cornwall
stc Group
Best health and wellbeing initiative - private sector
Arla Foods
Equiniti
In January 2023, shareholder, retirement and remediation services provider Equiniti introduced Peakon, a new employee engagement platform, which enabled employees to provide feedback on a monthly, rather than annual, basis. The initial health and wellbeing results – one of three core sections of the survey – showed a score of eight, we...
Mott MacDonald
Omnicom Media Group
Tara Group
Tesco Bank
Best health and wellbeing initiative - public/third sector
City Health Care Partnership
RSPCA
Praised by the awards judges as “really inspiring”, the RSPCA’s three-year Wellbeing Plan was launched after a 2019 staff survey found that only 37 per cent believed the organisation cared about employee wellbeing (and only 39 per cent agreed that the RSPCA helped colleagues achieve a good work-life balance). These findings – together ...
Best HR/ L&D & OD team of the year - private sector
Equiniti
The PMAs judges were impressed by the Equiniti team’s “undeniably strong” results and demonstration of “great resilience” in the face of the entire transformation of the company’s HR function. Equiniti also came out on top of two other categories: the Best People Analytics Initiative and the Best Health and Wellbeing Initiative – Priva...
First Bus
Royal Mail Group
Tesco Bank
Vodafone Group
WiseTech Global
Best HR/ L&D & OD team of the year - public/ third sector
Booster&Development
City of Bristol College
In late 2022, City of Bristol College faced seven days of strike action and turnover stood at more than 23 per cent. Sickness was high and morale was low. The college had faced financial cuts and quality pressures from Ofsted, which had given it a “requires improvement” rating for more than 10 years. The organisation, by its own admiss...
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Best HR/L&D & OD consultancy
Amanda Collins Consulting
Executive Coaching Consultancy
EY Lane4
Crowned the “ultimate, unanimous winners” of this category by the PMAs judges, leadership development consultancy EY Lane4 delivered a leadership development programme for transport company First Bus that “clearly demonstrated an impressive, multilayered approach to achieve clearly defined outcomes”.Leadership Lab was a senior leadersh...
Insight HRC
Let's Talk Talent
Mindset Practice
People Station
Project X Partners
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Best HR/L&D & OD supplier
NKD
Australia Post was undergoing a transformation. Faced with declining mail volumes, rising parcel demands and evolving customer expectations, it launched its Post 26 strategy, a comprehensive plan for modernisation. The organisation partnered NKD and developed Our AP Way, a programme that built the foundations for delivering on the broa...
TalentPredix and Samsara
WildHearts Talent
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Best L&D initiative – private sector
ATG Entertainment
British Airways
BusinessFourZero
Citation
Pandora
Global jewellery brand Pandora introduced its Phoenix strategy for sustainable growth in 2021 but, to support its growth trajectory and ambitious financial targets, the company’s board concluded that investing in leadership would be key.An innovative leadership and development programme was needed to involve all of Pandora’s 3,750 lead...
PowerON Platforms
Seasalt Cornwall
Best L&D initiative – public/third sector
Acivico Group
BBC Cymru Wales
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Humberside Police
Jobsplus
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
National Highways
The Government Property Agency
To get future ready, the Government Property Agency (GPA), an executive agency of the Cabinet Office, set up The GPA Skills and Specialisms Learning Programme to “raise capability” and “develop core and specialist skills required by all our people”.The long-term project’s aims include: being pan-agency and fully inclusive of all employ...
Best organisational development or design initiative
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Equiniti
Landmark Group
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Pandora
SPL | Saudi Post
When an employee engagement survey showed that 40 per cent of staff lacked clarity on their career development – particularly people in roles significantly different to those of their colleagues in the same unit – postage and logistics company SPL knew it had to clarify its talent pipeline. The subsequent initiative, Your Path to Succe...
The Government Property Agency
Best people analytics initiative
BDO UK
Crown Prosecution Service
Dubai Police Headquarters
Equiniti
Equiniti’s implementation of monthly engagement tool Peakon and its use of the findings to drive meaningful, transformational change across the business was lauded by the PMAs judges – who also crowned Equiniti winner of the Best Health and Wellbeing Initiative – Private Sector, and Best HR/L&D & OD Team of the Year – Private Sector – ...
EY
Virgin Media O2
Best resourcing initiative
Circle Health Group
Citation
Daisy Corporate Services
Just Group
Having outsourced its talent acquisition (TA) function, financial services organisation Just Group recognised – following both internal and external feedback – that there was room for improvement. A full end-to-end diagnostic was completed to fully understand the talent acquisition function’s capability and performance in line with del...
Manchester Metropolitan University
Tesco Bank
Best reward or recognition initiative
Bank of Ireland
Dubai Police Headquarters
Manchester Metropolitan University
Savola Foods Company
Seasalt Cornwall
Clothing company Seasalt Cornwall’s award-winning overhaul of its reward package was catalysed by the organisation’s rapid growth, expanding from a small family business to one employing 1,300 people in more than 70 retail stores. The company believed its employees “deserved a reward package that reflected this growth and achievement, ...
SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK
Best talent management initiative
Apadmi
Bank of Ireland
Bupa Arabia
When employee pulse surveys at Bupa Arabia, an associate business of the worldwide healthcare organisation, threw up consistently negative sentiments around lack of growth, promotions and pay concerns, it embarked on a talent management initiative praised by the PMAs judges as “well rounded” and demonstrating a real commitment to peopl...
Centrica
Network Rail
Royal Academy of Engineering
Shared Services Connected
Michael Kelly outstanding student award
Jan Kozak, Envista
Jestina Mpofu, Wiltshire Police
Molly Keers, PwC
Nataliia Dziuba, HRM-BA
Rose Watkins Jones, Impression Digital
In December 2022, Rose Watkins Jones – described by the judges as a “credit to the profession” – introduced a tool called My Manual, a living document to help employees at Impression, a digital growth agency, discover and communicate their working styles, motivations and individuality to help everyone work better collaboratively.The ne...
Outstanding HR or L&D Apprentice Award
Catherine Duke-Glover, DS Smith
Claire Kimberley, Serco
Claire Kimberley’s introduction of a Neurodiversity for Managers L&D initiative at Serco, a global organisation that partners organisations to deliver a range of government services, was born of the fact “there had previously never been any training materials on this topic [within the organisation], particularly for managers who are su...
