At Proxima, we offer competitive benefits and exciting perks to all employees. Health, wellness, community, and security are at the heart of our organization. As a consultancy, we know workloads can be strenuous at times, to help make those peaks easier on our employees, we put in place comprehensive programs to ensure our employee’s happiness and well-being.

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Competitive Salaries

Proxima provides and maintains competitive salaries in-line with market trends and each employee has an annual review as part of their Anniversary Conversation process.

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Learning & Development Programs

At Proxima, a growth mindset is important, so we ensure all employees have access to a wide variety of training courses and resources – tailored to Proxima’s consulting model and principles.

 

In addition, we offer the ‘X-Fund’, where all employees have the opportunity to partake in external training courses to enhance individual potential and professional development.


Support Towards Professional Qualifications

We encourage employees to develop and enhance their personal development and provide support for professional qualifications (financial funding) for CIPS (UK), CPSM/CPSD (US), and an Executive Mini MBA program (both UK & US). We also support our employees by providing them with an allocated number of days for paid study leave.

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International Travel & Work Opportunities

Proxima has clients based throughout North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom, allowing global exposure to employees and opportunities to travel domestically and internationally.

Employee
Profit Share

The Profit Share Program is a discretionary financial reward scheme designed to recognize the commitment and effort that all our employees put in throughout the year to support each other and the company in its goals.

Flexible
Working

Proxima promotes agile working for all employees to enable greater flexibility and allow for work-life balance.

During COVID, employee worked from home or in our offices as allowed by local and state regulations.

In a post-COVID world, Proxima encourages employees to take on a hybrid approach to working, with a healthy combination of working on client sites, in our own offices, and from home.

Collaborative
environment

  • Regular company socials and annual company-wide conference
  • Lunch and Learn sessions, with guest speakers and workshops
  • Regular department update meetings, highlighting clients, ways of working, company initiatives, new joiners, and overall team updates
  • Workplace (internal platform/forum) to welcome new joiners, recognize employees’ achievements, announce new clients/projects/on-sells and company updates from CEO
  • CEO fireside chats (quarterly)

Established Charity
Partnerships

  • Proxima supports Alzheimer’s Research UK and St. Jude (US) charities with regular fundraising initiatives and donations

Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion discussion group and committee
  • Gender Equality Committee (GEN)
  • Committee On Racial Equality (CORE)

Annual Leave By the Numbers

  • 25 days for new employees with the option to buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year, with additional days added for tenure at Proxima
  • 8 paid bank holidays
  • Comprehensive Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, and Shared Parental Leave policies
  • Comprehensive Company Sick Pay policy, including Group Income Protection benefit scheme
  • 2 paid volunteer days for any charity of your choice

Health and Wellbeing

  • Private Medical Insurance: PHC – personal, plus an option of adding partner and/or dependents (includes medical history disregard, giving cover for pre-existing conditions prior to joining the scheme)
  • Dental Care: Bupa – personal and/or family options
  • Health Cash Plan: SimplyHealth – claim up to 100% of treatment costs for everyday healthcare
  • Employee Assistance Programme, plus myWellbeing website/app for managing health online
  • Financial Well-being: Lifetime – access to a learning hub, webinars, a personal financial plan, and 1-2-1 coaching

Life Assurance

  • Group Life Assurance: Canada Life – employer-funded benefit (core 4 x salary)
  • Spouse/Partner Life Assurance – up to £250,000

Disability

  • Group Income Protection Policy: AIG

Retirement

  • Aegon scheme – contributions from both the individual and Proxima

Paid Time Off

  • 26 days for new employees with annual service increase
  • 7 Paid holidays
  • 2 Volunteer Days for any organization of your choice
  • Maternity and Paternity Leave policies

Health and Wellbeing

  • Comprehensive Health: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois PPO and HSA with employer contribution
  • Comprehensive Dental: Metlife PPO
  • Comprehensive Vision: Metlife PPO
  • FSA, Dependent Care, and Transportation Accounts
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Wellness Initiative premium credit for annual health examinations – $25, $50, $100 per year
  • Milk Stork services (breast milk shipping) for returning Mothers; should they need to travel for work

Life Insurance

  • Proxima paid-in-full Basic Life/AD&D Insurance
  • Option to purchase additional Life/AD&D

Disability

  • Proxima Paid- Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance

Retirement

  • 401K Scheme