Raise awareness
Present the plan to all employees and to every new joiner, and hold events dedicated to equity, diversity and inclusion every year.
Equality · Diversity · Next generation
Our commitments
SouthNext is committed on two fronts: equality between women and men, with a 2024-2026 gender equality plan, and the next generation, with a Talents programme open to young employees across all our offices.
2024 - 2026
Gender equality plan
SouthNext is actively committed to professional equality between women and men. With the support of the executive committee, general management has made it a priority of the group's strategic plan, in line with European Commission guidelines.
Since 2019, many actions have been carried out thanks to a multidisciplinary working group representing business units, support functions and both European and non-European employees. A gender data audit and a staff survey set the priorities.
The 2024-2026 gender equality plan is the next step. It aims to guarantee attractive career prospects for everyone, promote a culture of respect and inclusion, and fight discrimination.
The starting point is measured: women account for 40% of executive committee members and remain under-represented in leadership positions. The plan sets six objectives, monitoring indicators and a mid-term review.
6objectives tracked by indicators
40 %women on the executive committee at launch
2equality officers appointed every two years
The six objectives
Balance work and life
Promote the remote-working agreement and the right to disconnect, hold meetings at hours compatible with private life, and build the principle of non-discrimination into internal procedures.
Open up governance
Move towards parity in management bodies, share a best-practice guide for unbiased recruitment and encourage employee resource groups.
Recruit and promote
Guarantee equal access to promotion, support applications from women, develop mentoring and ensure balanced representation among those who make hiring decisions.
Communicate without stereotypes
Build the gender dimension into campaigns from the start, with a simple goal: no discriminatory content produced by the group.
Fight violence
Train all staff on everyday sexism, publicise the reporting procedure and the contact people, support victims and apply the most protective rule everywhere.
How the plan is run
Resources, data, follow-up
- A public document, approved by general management at the end of 2023
- A coordinator and two equality officers, renewed every two years
- Recruitment data tracked by gender, in compliance with GDPR
- Training and awareness actions for everyone
- A mid-term review, then a renewal of the plan
Diversity is everyone's business. We celebrate it and support it, in the interest of our teams and of the quality of our work.
The next generation
Talents programme
The Talents programme brings out the group's most promising young employees, across all our offices, and involves them in the future of SouthNext and of our profession.
A group present on several continents has an advantage: its best ideas can come from anywhere. The programme gives a voice to those who will shape tomorrow's communications, whatever their country, agency or discipline.
Spot
Identify in every office, from Abidjan to Dubai and from Saint-Denis to Annecy, the young employees who show the most drive and potential.
Grow
Give them time, mentoring and projects that go beyond their role and their country, alongside the leadership teams.
Involve
Bring them into the thinking about the group's future: offers, methods, tools, organisation.
Reinvent the craft
Entrust them with the topics transforming communications, from artificial intelligence to new social formats, so they can shape what comes next.
Join us
Want to grow with us?
Our agencies recruit in Paris, Casablanca, Abidjan, Dubai, Antananarivo, Reunion Island, Annecy and Geneva. Write to us, mentioning the office and the discipline you are interested in.
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