William Hill’s Ambition

Our new 2023 Group ambition
TO BUILD A DIGITALY LED, INTERNATIONALLY DIVERSE GAMBLING COMPANY OF SCALE

“I want us to have a renewed focus on the long term performance of this company. I want us to grow through competitive products, a smart retail network, smart teams and improved execution.
In short; Customer, Team, Execution.”

Our ambition for Diversity and Inclusion is creating an environment where our colleagues feel they belong and are represented and respected at all levels of the business.

We continuously strive to promote our Diversity and Inclusion culture amongst our colleagues at William Hill International, and also within the William Hill Group.

In our company values, we emphasise ownership and action. D&I, for us, is not only about having a vision, but it's about acting upon it by creating a culture of uniqueness and belonging, supporting inclusion and wellbeing - of both our employees as well as of the local community in which we operate.. We want to continue promoting D&I as our company culture, as this is precisely who we are. We are an international, diverse company with staff coming from over 30 countries with different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations and religions. We must continue nurturing this diversity and take advantage of what differentiates us. We also want to cultivate an environment where exceptional people can be their most authentic selves and find both belonging and support.

Getting involved

Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion is much more than just changing our logo during Pride month – it’s about driving our culture forward. We’re proud of the inclusive and diverse culture we have already created here at William Hill, one that has never tolerated discrimination of any kind.

Since the launch of our Diversity & Inclusion strategy in 2018, we have organised multiple "Unconscious Bias" training sessions and "Diverse and Inclusive workplace" workshops for both our colleagues and managers. We also coach our leaders on how to be mindful of their unconscious bias, and how they can act to overcome it whilst recruiting on separate D&I recruitment training sessions. This has proven to be both an eye-opener and very helpful to our line managers.

In 2019, we have launched an LGBTQ+ internal support group that later on was expanded to a bigger D&I forum for our employees. 2019 was also the first-year which we became official partners of Malta Pride organised by ARC - Allied Rainbow Communities and in support of the LGBT+ community. We also hosted a panel talk focusing on a link between diversity and innovation.

In 2020, we became partners of Malta Pride again. To celebrate International Women's Day, we partnered up with #EachforEqual. We have also launched a global "On the same side" forum for employees from all locations of William Hill - from Nevada through the United Kingdom and Poland to the Philippines.

We expect that 2021 will be a year of launching our global "Inclusive leadership" program in which all leaders will learn more about levels and value of diversity, building inclusive work environments, as well as cross-cultural communication and inclusive language.

Diversity in numbers

William Hill International is a very multicultural place to work in. Joining our team means joining environment in which around 90% of your future colleagues relocated to Malta from other parts of the world. It's an environment in which it's definitely great to build international friendships. Walking around our office, you will hear almost 30 different languages, and English is the first language only to 10% of our colleagues! We are also proud of our gender split - 57% of our colleagues identify as male and 43% as female. We are also a relatively young team - even though we have colleagues born at the beginning of the 21st century as well as in the 1960s, our average age is 31.